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Maggie Q
at the Mission: Impossible III premiere in April 2006
Born	Margaret Denise Quigley May 22, 1979 (1979-05-22) (age 30) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
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.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Personal life 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life

Maggie Q was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to an American father of Polish, French Canadian and Irish descent, and a Vietnamese mother.¹² 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}

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

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].

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
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
2000	Gen-Y Cops	Jane Quigley
	Model from Hell	Anna

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Maggie Q

• Maggie Q at the Internet Movie Database