Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu /ˈluː/is an American actress and artist. 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. Liu's film work includes starring as one of the heroines in Charlie's Angels, portrayed O-Ren Ishii...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth2 December 1968
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I think diversity is very key to anybody's resume, and also for your mental well-being.
I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.
The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.
It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.
I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.
It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.
I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
I've never had a doubt about acting, about what I wanted to do, and I don't ever forget where I've come from. I'll never be one of those people who says, 'Oh, this is all so boring!' This is an incredible world to be a part of. It's not always easy, but it's worth it.
She was colorful and wonderful. When you do television, it goes into everyone's living room and they feel like they can watch you every week.
My freckles are always there. I think the lighting blows it out. If we had to cover up the freckles, I'd be forever with a thick thing of makeup.
You have to hope that you don't have to wear a mask and you don't have to put prosthetics on your face to make yourself look believable.
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.