Maggie Q

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Maggie Q

Maggie Q
Birth name Margaret Denise Quigley
Born May 22, 1979 (age 27)
Flag of United States Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Notable roles "Zhen" in
Mission Impossible 3

Margaret Denise Quigley (Chinese: 李美琪; pinyin: Lǐ Měiqí, born May 22, 1979), better known as Maggie Q, is an American actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to an American father of Polish, Irish, and French descent and a Vietnamese mother.[1][2] Her parents met while her father was stationed in Vietnam. Maggie is the youngest of 5 children. She has two sisters and two half-siblings from her mother's previous marriage in Vietnam. After graduating from Mililani high school she travelled to Japan and Hong Kong to earn money as a fashion model. In 1998 she got her first role in a Chinese TV series, and she has been acting ever since.

[edit] Career

While still relatively unfamiliar to audiences in the United States, she has achieved celebrity status in Hong Kong and elsewhere in East Asia. She has appeared in Chinese films speaking Cantonese, despite her non-Chinese heritage. Her big breakthrough in the West came when she bagged the lead role in the Hong Kong action thriller Naked Weapon, playing the sexy but vulnerable 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.

Recently, she starred in her biggest Hollywood role to date alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. She played Zhen, the only female member of his elite IMF team.

Maggie will play a world-class hacker at odds with a villain who tries to terrorize America in Bruce Willis' Live Free or Die Hard.[3]

[edit] Filmography

Maggie Q in Naked Weapon
Maggie Q in Naked Weapon
Year Movie Role
2000 The Legendary 'Tai Fei' Kei, wife of Fei
2000 Model from Hell Anna
2000 Gen-Y Cops Jane Quigley
2001 Manhattan Midnight Susan/Hope
2001 Rush Hour 2 Girl in Car
2002 Naked Weapon Charlene Ching
2004 Magic Kitchen May
2004 Around the World in 80 Days Female Agent
2004 Rice Rhapsody Gigi
2005 Taped Maggie
2005 House of Harmony Harmony
2005 Dragon Squad Song
2006 The Counting House The Girl
2006 Mission: Impossible III Zhen Lei
2007 Balls of Fury Maggie Wong
2007 Live Free or Die Hard
2008 Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon Cao Yin

[edit] References

  1. ^ TheStar.com. There’s something about Maggie. Retrieved on September 25, 2006.
  2. ^ Talking Mission: Impossible III with Maggie Q. Evan Jacobs for MovieWeb Thursday, May 4th, 2006. Retrieved on September 19, 2006.
  3. ^ Long, Maggie Q join Willis in "Die Hard". Borys Kit for Reuters. Retrieved on September 22, 2006.

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