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Lucy Alexis Liu born December 2, 1968 is an American actress. Born in New York City to Chinese immigrant parents, her awards include a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards
Liu had her breakthrough role as Ling Woo in Fox's legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (1998–2002). She gained further recognition for starring in the action comedy film Charlie's Angels (2000) and its sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), and the martial arts action film Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and its sequel Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004). She also starred in the films Payback (1999), Shanghai Noon (2000), Chicago (2002), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Watching the Detectives (2007), The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), Set It Up (2018), Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), and Presence (2024).
Liu played Dr. Joan Watson in the CBS crime drama series Elementary (2012–2019). She also provided the voice of Master Viper in the first three installments of the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–2016) and Silvermist in the Tinker Bell series (2008–2015). Her other voice work includes the PBS children's series Maya & Miguel (2004–2007), the animated films Mulan II (2004) and Strange World (2022), as well as the English and Mandarin-dubbed versions of the animated films The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) and Magic Wonderland (2014)
Early Life
Lucy Liu was born in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. In high school, she adopted a middle name, Alexis. She is the youngest of three children born to Cecilia, who worked as a biochemist, and Tom Liu, a civil engineer who sold digital watch pens. Liu's parents originally came from Beijing and Shanghai and immigrated to Taiwan as adults before meeting in New York. She has an older brother, John, and an older sister, Jenny. Her parents held multiple jobs while Lucy and her siblings were growing up.
Liu has said she grew up in a diverse neighborhood. She learned to speak Mandarin at home and began reading English at the age of five. When she was young, she studied the martial arts Kali-Eskrima-Silat as a hobby. Liu attended Joseph Pulitzer Middle School (IS145), and graduated from Stuyvesant High School. She later enrolled at New York University and transferred to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority and studied Asian languages and cultures.
Personal life
Liu has been a vegetarian since childhood. Liu has studied various religions, primarily Buddhism and Taoism, and briefly Kabbalah. She has said, "I'm interested in spiritual things — anything to do with meditation or mantra or anything like that. I studied Chinese philosophy in school. There's something about metaphysics that I find very fascinating." She has been a member of the Chinese-American organization Committee of 100 since 2004.
She has a son, Rockwell, born in 2015 via gestational surrogate.She has said that surrogacy was the right choice for her because, "I was working and I didn't know when I'd be able to stop." She decided to raise him as a single parent. She was featured in Tylenol's #HowWeFamily Mother's Day campaign, which celebrated non-traditional families.
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