Maggie Q
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| Maggie Q | |
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 at the Mission: Impossible III premiere in April 2006 |
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| Born | Margaret Denise Quigley May 22, 1979 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Other name(s) | Maggie Quigley |
Maggie Q, born Margaret Denise Quigley (stage name: 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 earn money as a fashion model. In 1998 she got her first role in a Chinese-language TV series.
[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 the Chinese language. 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 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.
In 2006 she starred alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. She played Zhen, the only female member of his IMF team. Maggie played Mai Linh, one of the computer-hacking extortionists in the 2007 Bruce Willis movie Live Free Or Die Hard, the fourth film in the Die Hard franchise.[3] On August 29, 2007, Balls of Fury opened nationwide in the U.S., where Maggie portrayed the niece of table tennis guru Master Wong (James Hong).
[edit] Personal life
Maggie Q has been in the past romantically linked to actor-singer Daniel Wu and Japanese footballer Hidetoshi Nakata. In January 2008, her fellow actor and good friend Edison Chen was caught in a sex scandal. The scandal became a raging topic as it involved many high profile celebrities of Hong Kong entertainment, whom Chen was involved with in the past.[4][5]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
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| 2000 | The Legendary 'Tai Fei' | Kei, wife of Fei |
| Model from Hell | Anna | |
| Gen-Y Cops | Jane Quigley | |
| 2001 | Manhattan Midnight | Susan/Hope |
| Rush Hour 2 | Girl in Car | |
| 2002 | Naked Weapon | Charlene Ching |
| 2004 | Magic Kitchen | May |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Female Agent | |
| Rice Rhapsody | Gigi | |
| 2005 | Taped | Maggie |
| House of Harmony | Harmony | |
| Dragon Squad | Song | |
| 2006 | The Counting House | The Girl |
| Mission: Impossible III | Zhen Lei | |
| 2007 | Live Free or Die Hard | Mai Linh |
| Balls of Fury | Maggie Wong | |
| 2008 | Deception | Tina |
| Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon | Cao Yin | |
| New York I Love You |
[edit] References
- ^ TheStar.com. There’s something about Maggie. Retrieved on September 25, 2006.
- ^ Talking Mission: Impossible III with Maggie Q. Evan Jacobs for MovieWeb Thursday, May 4th, 2006. Retrieved on September 19, 2006.
- ^ Long, Maggie Q join Willis in "Die Hard".. Borys Kit for Reuters. Retrieved on September 22, 2006.
- ^ 'Edison & Maggie Q' Sex Tape?
- ^ BRETT'S LATEST- New York Post
[edit] External links
- Maggie Q at the Internet Movie Database
- MaggieQ.net The Official Website
- MaggieQ.us Maggie Q Fansite
