Lucy Alexis Liu (劉玉玲 Liú Yùlíng) is an American actress, born in Queens,
New York City to Taiwanese immigrant parents. Although
she did well in her studies, she started acting when she auditioned for a minor role in a college production of
Alice in Wonderland, and instead won the lead.
After some small roles in films and television, her breakthrough came when she got a part in
Ally McBeal, playing the foul-mouthed Ling Woo, a new character specifically written for her. Her tough attitude made her a sex symbol for a lot of viewers, and her performance earned her Emmy and Screen Actors Guild award nominations.
Since then, she has appeared in a variety of film and television roles, often playing an
Action Girl or
Dark Action Girl, as well as doing voice-acting in animation (cf. her appearance on the
Futurama episode where Fry downloads Lucy Liu's likeness into a robot and uses it as his girlfriend and her role on the
King of the Hill episode "Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?" as Connie's delinquent cousin Tid Pao who tricks Bobby into making a meth lab for her). Liu also holds the honor of being the first Asian-American woman to host
Saturday Night Live (her episode was a season 26 Christmas episode with
Jay Z as a musical guest).
Liu is bilingual in English and
Mandarin, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Asian Languages and Cultures from the
University Of Michigan.
Her filmography includes:
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