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BIO:
Lucy Alexis Liu is an early thirties Chinese beauty and was born and raised in the Italian
neighborhood of Queens, New York. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and her
birth date is December 2nd, 1968.
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
Lucy Liu finished high school in 1986 at Stuyvesant H.S. and went to New York University for one year. Lucy considered it a dark and sarcastic place. She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a degree in Asian languages and cultures while also studying acting, dance and voice. During her senior year, she auditioned for a production of Andre Gregory's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" on a whim, hoping to land a supporting role. Instead, she was cast as the lead and a career was born.
Lucy is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and practices Indonesian martial arts, including Kali-Eskrima-silat, which is a crude form of knife and stick fighting [totally inferior to Kwok Wing Chun :) Sorry, I have to defend my style and clan :) It's a joke people]. Liu's theatre credits include "Numb," "Redwood Curtain" and "M.Butterfly." She is also a membe of the Met Theatre Development Ensemble.
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.
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. Liu's also a photographer and an artist. And a serious accordion player. She and "The Bak Gwi Plunderer" Greg Germann were delighted to discover that they share the same teacher; now they drag their accordions to work and jam between scenes. "I want to embrace life as long as I have it. I don't know how long I'll be here," Liu says. "I always thought I was going to go young. I don't know why."
Myself hailing from Vancouver Canada, I am definitely no stranger to gorgeous Chinese women. But gazing for the first time at Lucy Alexis Liu, it was clear to me that she was THE most beautiful woman to ever grace a movie or television screen.
Lucy's breakthrough role come on September 21st 1998 on Fox's Ally McBeal in the episode "They Eat Horses Don't They". She portrayed Ling Woo, an icy, assertive plant manager (and ex-lawyer) suing a shock jock radio host for sexual harassment. She instantly upstaged Callista Flockhart as the most compelling character on the series with her intense bitchy personality and stunning Asian beauty.
The 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. Couples across North America began to imitate but couldn't replicate this piece of television history. Testosterone levels in horny Chinese university students like myself skyrocketed to an all time high. Needless to say, Fox signed her as a regular cast member after this. |
