Line #6 Creator/MaggieQ


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3	->''"Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights -- gee, what a wonder -- but also, I have more to offer than that."''
4	-->-- '''Maggie Q''' on typecasting
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6	Margaret Denise Quigley (known to most of us as Maggie Q, born May 22, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American (of Irish, Polish and Vietnamese descent, via Hawaii) actress and former model. After being scouted by Creator/JackieChan, she starred in lesser-known films such as ''Film/NakedWeapon'' and ''Rice Rhapsody'' before going on to roles in ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' and ''Film/BallsOfFury''. She starred as the titular character of ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' and the protagonist of the [[ShortRunner short-lived]] CBS series ''Series/Stalker2014'', and is also part of the main cast of the ABC series ''Series/DesignatedSurvivor''. She is perhaps known for playing a female spy/action hero/ActionGirl in a lot of her roles, and usually doing her own stunts while she's at it.
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8	She was engaged to Creator/DylanMcDermott, her ''Stalker'' [[RomanceOnTheSet costar]], from 2015 to 2019.
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10	!!Notable roles
11	* ''Film/RushHour 2'' (2001) as Girl in Car
12	* ''Film/NakedWeapon'' (2002) as Charlene Ching
13	* ''[[Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004 Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (2004) as Female Agent
14	* ''Film/HouseOfHarmony'' (2005) as Harmony
15	* ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' (2006) as Zhen Lei
16	* ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' (2007) as Mai Linh
17	* ''Film/BallsOfFury'' (2007) as Maggie Wong
18	* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUndercover'' (2008) as Chase Linh
19	* ''Film/OperationEndgame'' (2010) as High Priestess
20	* ''Film/{{The King of Fighters\|2010}}'' (2010) as Mai Shiranui
21	* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' (2010-13) as Nikita Mears
22	* ''Film/{{Priest\|2011}}'' (2011) as Priestess
23	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' (2012, 2019) as Diana of Themiscyra / Franchise/WonderWoman (voice)
24	* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' and its sequels (2014-16) as Tori Wu
25	* ''Series/{{Stalker\|2014}}'' (2014-15) as Beth Davis
26	* ''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'' (2016-19) as Hannah Wells
27	* ''Film/TheConIsOn'' (2018) as Irina Solokov
28	* ''Film/{{Fantasy Island\|2020}}'' (2020) as Gwen Olsen
29	* ''Film/TheFamilyPlan'' (2023) as Gwen
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31	!!Maggie's roles include the following tropes
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33	* ActionGirl: She performs all of her own stunts despite never having had martial arts training, as many assume.
34	* CelebrityVoiceActor: She voices Wonder Woman on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''.
35	* DysfunctionJunction: Most evident in ''Nikita'' and ''Naked Weapon''.
36	* FakeNationality: Many of her roles are as Chinese or Chinese-American characters. She also played a Japanese fighter in ''Film/{{The King of Fighters\|2010}}''.
37	* FauxFluency: In her Hong Kong and Chinese films, as she does not speak Chinese and had to learn all of her lines phonetically.
38	* FemmeFataleSpy: Nikita, while unquestionably an Action Girl, can sometimes double as this.
39	* IJustWantToBeNormal: She has played (more than once) a character of a young woman forced to be a spy.

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