Maggie Q
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| Maggie Q | |
 at the Mission: Impossible III premiere in April 2006 |
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| Born | Margaret Denise Quigley May 22, 1979 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
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| Other name(s) | Maggie Quigley |
Margaret Denise Quigley, better known as Maggie Q (Chinese: 李美琪; pinyin: Lǐ Měiqí, Vietnamese: Lý Mỹ Kỳ (Lei Mei-Kei) (born May 22, 1979), is an American actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Maggie Q was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to an American father of Polish, French Canadian and Irish descent, and a Vietnamese mother.[1][2] Her parents met while her father was stationed in Vietnam. Maggie is the youngest of five children. She has two sisters and two half-siblings from her mother's previous marriage in Vietnam. After graduating from Mililani High School, she traveled to Japan and Hong Kong to become a fashion model. In 1998, she got her first role in a Chinese-language TV series.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
She began acting in Hong Kong and elsewhere in East Asia. Because of her non-Chinese heritage, many of her Asian film appearances are in English or dubbed in Chinese languages. She has, however, stated that she took Mandarin and Cantonese lessons during her career in Asia and is able to speak both languages in varying degrees. Among her first appearances in film was the lead roles in the Hong Kong action thrillers Gen-Y Cops and Naked Weapon, in which she played the martial artist assassin Charlene Ching. She has also played the titular role of Harmony in the German-Singapore telemovie collaboration Das Haus Der Harmonie, opposite leading Singaporean actress Fann Wong.
In 2006, she starred alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. She played Zhen, the only female member of his IMF team. In 2007, she appeared in the Bruce Willis movie Live Free Or Die Hard, the fourth film in the Die Hard franchise.[3] and in Balls of Fury.
In 2008, Maggie played fictional Cao Ying, a granddaughter of the warlord Cao Cao in Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, in her first Chinese ancient costume performance.
She also stars in the video game in the Need for Speed franchise Need for Speed: Undercover as Inspector Chase Linh who is the player's only contact to the Tri-City Police.[4]
She changed her name to Maggie Q in order for it to be more easily pronounced by Chinese audiences.[5]
[edit] Personal life
Maggie Q has been in the past romantically linked to actor-singer Daniel Wu, Edison Chen, Daniel Henney and Japanese soccer player Hidetoshi Nakata.
There were press rumours that she would be caught up in the Edison Chen photo scandal which implicated many Hong Kong female actors and singers.[6]
Maggie Q, who is vegan, is a strong supporter of PETA Asia-Pacific. She featured in two advertisements for the organization [1] in 2007. In addition, Maggie was responsible for the removal of real fur from the costumes/set of the Chinese film Three Kingdoms [2]. In 2007, PETA Asia-Pacific named Maggie Q its 'Person of the Year'. In 2008, the organization named Maggie Q one of the best-dressed celebrities of the year [3].
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
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| 2010 | The King of Fighters | Mai Shiranui |
| 2009 | Rogue's Gallery | High Priestess |
| New York, I Love You | Janice Taylor | |
| The Warrior and the Wolf | TBA | |
| 2008 | Deception | Tina |
| Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon | Cao Ying | |
| Need for Speed: Undercover | Chase Linh | |
| 2007 | Balls of Fury | Maggie Wong |
| Live Free or Die Hard | Mai Linh | |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Zhen Lei |
| The Counting House | Jade | |
| 2005 | House of Harmony | Harmony |
| Dragon Squad | Yuet | |
| Taped | Maggie | |
| 2004 | Rice Rhapsody | Gigi |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Female Agent (cameo) | |
| Magic Kitchen | May | |
| 2003 | The Trouble-Makers | Clary |
| 2002 | Naked Weapon | Charlene Ching |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | Girl in Car |
| Manhattan Midnight | The twin-sisters Susan and Hope |
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| 2000 | Gen-Y Cops | Jane Quigley |
| Model from Hell | Anna |
[edit] References
- ^ "TheStar.com". There’s something about Maggie. http://www.maggie-q.net/art1.html. Retrieved on September 25 2006.
- ^ "Talking Mission: Impossible III with Maggie Q". Evan Jacobs for MovieWeb Thursday, May 4th, 2006. http://www.movieweb.com/news/51/12451.php. Retrieved on September 19 2006.
- ^ "Long, Maggie Q join Willis in "Die Hard"". Borys Kit for Reuters. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=peopleNews&storyID=2006-09-22T051606Z_01_N22433839_RTRIDST_0_PEOPLE-DIEHARD-DC.XML&archived=False. Retrieved on September 22 2006.
- ^ "EA reveals Need for Speed Undercover release date, cover babe". new cover babe for Need for Speed Undercover as Chase Linh.. http://pspupdates.qj.net/EA-reveals-Need-for-Speed-Undercover-release-date-cover-babe/pg/49/aid/123184. Retrieved on August 16 2008.
- ^ IMDB Bio
- ^ "Edison & Maggie Q Sex Tape?". Edison & Maggie Q Sex Tape?. http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=587. Retrieved on February 8 2008.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Maggie Q |
- Maggie Q at the Internet Movie Database
