Lucy Alexis Liu - Sexiest Women on TV!
She was in 1999 chosen by Entertainment Weekly as
"one of the sexiest women on television." Her television credits include Alley McBeal
(as Ling Woo, a lawsuit-crazed beauty who has been bringing a number of highly irregular cases
to the law firm), ER (in the heartfelt story of a young mother whose baby son dies of
AIDS), High Incident, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, The X-Files and Pearl,
on which she was a series regular. Her film work includes, for example, City of Industry,
Payback, co-starring Mel Gibson, and True Crime, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Together with Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz she will play in Charlie's Angels: The Movie!
The Alley McBeal episode which made Lucy famous was "It's My Party" on November 19th 1998 when she
executed the most seductive kiss television had ever seen on Greg Germann. Time to introduce you
the Asian-American actress Lucy Alexis Liu (December 2, 1968).
Lucy Liu, originally from Queens, NY, finished high school in 1986 at Stuyvesant H.S. and graduated
from the University of Michigan with a degree in Asian languages and cultures while also studying
acting, dance and voice. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and practices martial arts, including
Kali-Eskrima-silat, which is knife and stick fighting.
There is not a whole lot of publicly about Lucy Liu as she upholds the Chinese stereotype of
being quiet and reserved. She has thus far kept her age and dating status, guy preferences, etc
under wraps. Lucy Liu is a latetwentyish Chinese beauty and daughter of Chinese immigrants.
She couldn't help but feel culturally alienated. "You go through a period when you don't like
being Asian; you want to be 'American'," she says. "As I got older I wanted to accept myself.",
say Liu. She's said to be fearless, for one thing. Liu's a rock climber, a skier, and a horseback
rider. Even after a bad bike accident this year and a recent fall off a horse ("The horse was
going one way and I was going the other"), Liu's friends still had to talk her out of buying a
motorcycle and taking up snowboarding.
In addition to acting, Liu is a gifted artist. Her work first appeared at the Cast Iron Gallery
in SoHo in 1993. She then received an art grant to study in China. Her exhibit of mixed-media
photography -- pictures laid in the center of an original frame and intermixed with ceramics,
paints, wood collages and papers -- chronicled her experiences there and debuted at a Venice,
CA gallery in 1997.
Movies
- Charlie's Angels: The Movie (2000)
- Shanghai Noon (2000)
- Play it to the Bone (1999)
- The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Molly (1999)
- True Crime (1999)
- Payback (1999)
- Riot (1997) (TV)
- City of Industry (1997)
- Gridlock'd (1997)
- Flypaper (1997)
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Guy (1996)
- Bang (1995)
- Big Bang Theory, The (1994)
Notable TV guest appearances
- Ally McBeal (1997)
- Nash Bridges (1996)
- Jonny Quest: The New Adventures (1996)
- Pearl (1996)
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995)
- ER (1994)
- NYPD Blue (1993)
- X Files, The (1993)
- Home Improvement (1991)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
- L.A. Law (1986)
Links
The People's Lucy Liu Website (great fansite)
The People's Lucy Liu Website (mirror site)
Please send an e-mail to
ThaNirz
if you can tell me something more about Lucy, thanks!
Last Update: November 14, 2000