Mary Carey (born June 15, 1980) is a American pornographic actress and was a candidate for Governor of California in 2003.

Carey was born Mary Ellen Cook in Cleveland, Ohio to a schizophrenic mother and a father with cerebral palsy, and she was cared for by her grandparents from the age of three months. After her parents divorced, her mother moved in with Carey and her grandparents. At seven years of age, she and the family moved from Cleveland to Florida, and the next year Carey was legall