Although she had originally tried out for only a supporting role, Liu was cast in the lead. As a member of the Basement Arts student-run theater group, she auditioned in 1989 for the University of Michigan's production of Alice in Wonderland during her senior year of college. She appeared in one commercial as a result. Career 1990s Īt the age of 19, while traveling on the subway, Liu was discovered by an agent. She later enrolled at New York University and transferred to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority and studied Asian languages and cultures. Liu attended Joseph Pulitzer Middle School (I.S.145), and graduated from Stuyvesant High School. She studied the martial art kali-eskrima-silat as a hobby when she was young. She learned to speak Mandarin at home and began studying English when she was five. Liu has stated that she grew up in a diverse neighborhood. Her parents worked many jobs while Lucy and her siblings were growing up. She has an older brother, John, and an older sister, Jenny. Liu's parents originally came from Beijing and Shanghai and immigrated to Taiwan as adults before meeting in New York. She is the youngest of three children born to Cecilia, who worked as a biochemist, and Tom Liu, a trained civil engineer who sold digital clock pens. In high school, she adopted a middle name, Alexis. Liu was born in the New York City borough of Queens.
Most recently, she has voiced Callisto Mal in the Disney-animated film Strange World (2022). Her other voice credits include Maya & Miguel (2004–2007), Mulan II (2004), as well as the English and Mandarin-dubbed versions of Magic Wonderland (2014) and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013). Liu provided voice acting for Master Viper in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–2016) and Silvermist in the Tinker Bell series (2008–2014).
Her film work includes starring in Payback (1999), Shanghai Noon (2000), Chicago (2002), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Watching the Detectives (2007), The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), and Set It Up (2018). Liu has starred as Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), Alex Munday in two Charlie's Angels films (20) and Joan Watson in the crime-drama series Elementary (2012–2019). Her accolades include winning a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Seoul International Drama Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Lucy Alexis Liu (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress.
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