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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 29) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Other name(s)	Maggie Quigley

Margaret Denise Quigley, better known as Maggie Q (Chinese: 李美琪; 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 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 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.^[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.^{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 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. 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 grand-daughter of the warlord Cao Cao in Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon. That is her first Chinese ancient costume performance, for which she had been criticized for her Eurasian appearance^{citation needed}.

She also is the 'cover babe' for the upcoming video game Need for Speed: Undercover.^[4]

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.

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2009	New York, I Love You
2008	Deception	Tina
	Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon	Cao Ying
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
	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

• Maggie Q at the Internet Movie Database
• Maggie Q pictures gallery