Lucy Liu Profile and Biography

Lucy Liu Profile:
Lucy Alexis Liu best known as Lucy Liu was born December 2, 1968 (star sign: Sagittarius) at her hometown in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City (NYC), New York (NY), United State of America (USA), and currently, Lucy Liu lives with her brother and his wife in New York (NY), United State of America (USA). Lucy Liu is a beautiful American (film, movie, television) actress, female model, Hollywood star, and famous women celebrity. She has a beauty: natural Asian beauty, hair color: gorgeous black, eyes color: pretty black, height: 5′ 3″ (160 cm), measurements: 34-23-33, and hobbies: rock climbs, practices martial arts, skis, plays the accordion, photography acting, film acting, and modeling.

Lucy Liu became popular and famous for her role in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002) as the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo, and Lucy Liu has also appeared in several notable film roles, including Charlie’s Angels, Kill Bill, and Kung Fu Panda.

Lucy Liu Biography:
In her early life, Lucy Liu was born and was raised with her brother John at her hometown in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City (NYC), New York (NY), United State of America (USA), by Taiwanese immigrant parents. Lucy Liu has said that she grew up in a “diverse” neighborhood. Lucy Liu’s family spoke Mandarin at home and she did not learn English until she was five years old. Lucy Liu’s father, Tom, was a civil engineer, and her mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, but they sacrificed those careers in Taiwan to come to the United States (U.S.). Lucy Liu, at her parents’ insistence, devoted her spare time to studying. Lucy Liu attended the Joseph Pulitzer Middle School (I.S.145) and she graduated from New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School on 1986. Lucy Liu attended New York University for one year, before transferring to the University of Michigan, where she joined the Chi Omega sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Asian Languages and Cultures. At one point, Lucy Liu worked as a waitress in Michigan.

In her career, Lucy Liu began acting on 1989, after auditioning for a role in the University of Michigan’s production of Alice in Wonderland during her senior year. Lucy Liu was cast in the lead role, although she had originally only tried out for a supporting part. Lucy Liu had small roles in films and TV (including The X-Files in “Hell Money” and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in “The March to Freedom”) before landing a role on Ally McBeal. Lucy Liu originally auditioned for the role of ‘Nelle Porter’ (played by Portia de Rossi), and the character ‘Ling Woo’ was later created specifically for her. Lucy Liu’s part on the series was originally not meant to be regular but the enthusiastic audience response to the actress’ ‘feisty’ Ling Woo secured Lucy Liu as a permanent cast member. It also earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Lucy Liu cemented her reputation playing bad girls by portraying “Pearl” for the Chinese mafia in the film Payback (1999).

Lucy Liu played Alex Munday in the Charlie’s Angels film, alongside established Hollywood stars Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. The film opened on November 2000 and was a hit, earning more than $125 million in the U.S., and a worldwide total of more than $264 million. The sequel, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, opened on June 2003 and was a box-office hit again, earning more than $100 million in the U.S., and a worldwide total of more than $259 million. In between the two films, Lucy Liu starred with Antonio Banderas in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a critical and box office failure.

Lucy Liu next played O-Ren Ishii, one of the major villains in Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 film, Kill Bill. She won an MTV Movie Award for “Best Movie Villain” for the part. Subsequently, Lucy Liu appeared on several episodes of Joey with Matt LeBlanc, who played her love interest in the Charlie’s Angels movies. Lucy Liu also had smaller roles as Kitty Baxter in the film Chicago, and as a psychologist opposite Keira Knightley in the thriller Domino. Lucy Liu on 2006 played leading lady and love interest to Josh Hartnett in the crime thriller Lucky Number Slevin. Other appearances include a cameo on the animated shows Futurama (as herself and/or robot duplicates thereof in the episodes “I Dated a Robot” and “Love and Rocket” and The Simpsons (on the season sixteen episode “Goo Goo Gai Pan”), and a guest host on an episode of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live on 2000 (musical guest: Jay-Z).

Lucy Liu’s film 3 Needles was released on December 1, 2006. Lucy Liu in the film plays as Jin Ping, an HIV-positive Chinese woman. Lucy Liu agreed to star in the film for lower than usual pay because she wanted to spread awareness about the way AIDS is improperly treated in China and Thailand. Lucy Liu’s other recent roles, which met with less success, but later gain cult followings among her fans, include Code Name: The Cleaner, an action comedy released January 5, 2007; Rise, a supernatural thriller co-starring Michael Chiklis in which Lucy Liu plays an undead reporter (for which she was ranked number forty-one on “Top 50 Sexiest Vampires”); and Watching the Detectives, an independent romantic comedy co-starring Cillian Murphy. Lucy Liu has also signed on to star in a new version of Charlie Chan which has been in pre-production since 2000; Lucy Liu will produce both films.

Lucy Liu has guest starred as lawyer Grace Chin on Ugly Betty in the episodes “Derailed” and “Icing on the Cake”. In a 2001 episode of “Sex and the City” entitled “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” Lucy Liu guest starred as herself, playing a new client of character Samantha Jones, who does public relations. Lucy Liu starred in the “Sex and the City” inspired TV show, Cashmere Mafia on ABC. On 2007, Empire magazine give name Lucy Liu among the “100 Sexiest Movie Stars”.

On 2008, after pitching an interest in being part of the hit new show “Dirty Sexy Money”, the producers immediately created a role for Lucy Liu as a series regular. Lucy Liu played the role of Nola Lyons, a powerful attorney that faced Nick George (played by Peter Krause). Lucy Liu is the voice for Silvermist in Disney Fairies franchise. Lucy Liu also appeared in Kung Fu Panda, an animated film in which she voiced Viper.

Lucy Liu on March 2, 2010 made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage playing Annette as part of the second replacement cast along side Jeff Daniels, Janet McTeer and Dylan Baker.

In her personal life, with her parents’ work ethic, Lucy Liu continued, “I’m always multi-tasking, doing 10 things at once”. Lucy Liu speaks Mandarin Chinese and English natively, and “a little bit of Spanish, a tiny bit of Italian, a little bit of Japanese,” for her role in Kill Bill. Lucy Liu also have the hobbies, among other: rock climbs, practices martial arts, skis, plays the accordion, photography acting, film acting, and modeling.

Lucy Liu is also an artist in several media, and has had three gallery shows showcasing her collage, paintings, and photography. Lucy Liu started doing collage mixed media at 16 and then moved to photography and later painting. Lucy Liu had an art show on September and Lucy Liu donated her share of the profits to UNICEF. Lucy Liu also has another show on 2008 in Munich and has stated that she will also donate her share of the profits to UNICEF.

Lucy Liu Profile and Biography source: MadeMan.com, FanPix.Net, and Wikipedia.Org