Lucy Liu
Actor, Celebrity
1968 –
Who is Lucy Liu?
Lucy Alexis Liu is an American actress, model, artist, and occasional film producer and director. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. Her film work includes starring as one of the heroines in Charlie's Angels, playing one of the enemies of The Bride in Kill Bill, and appearances in Payback, Chicago, and animated hit Kung Fu Panda.
In 2012, Liu joined the cast of TNT series Southland in the recurring role of Jessica Tang, for which she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Guest Actress. In 2008 she starred in her own television show, ABC comedy-drama, Cashmere Mafia, which ended after one abbreviated season. The show was one of only a few American television shows to have an Asian American series lead. She is currently co-starring in Sherlock Holmes–inspired crime drama Elementary, playing Joan Watson.
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- Born
- Dec 2, 1968
Jackson Heights - Also known as
- Lucy Alexis Liu
- Lucy Lui
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Asian American
- Chinese American
- Taiwanese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Stuyvesant High School
( - 1986) - Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan
Asian Languages and Cultures - New York University
- Joseph Pulitzer Middle School
- Stuyvesant High School
- Lived in
- Queens
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on July 23, 2013
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