Maggie Q, born Margaret Denise Quigley (stage name: , 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.

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. 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.

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 the Chinese language. 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. Maggie played Mai Linh, one of the computer-hacking extortionists in the 2007 Bruce Willis movie Live Free Or Die Hard, the fourth film in the Die Hard franchise. On August 29, 2007, Balls of Fury opened nationwide in the U.S., where Maggie portrayed the niece of table tennis guru Master Wong (James Hong).

Personal life

In January 2008, her fellow actor and good friend Edison Chen was caught in a sex scandal. The scandal became a raging topic as it involved many high profile celebrities of Hong Kong entertainment, whom Chen was involved with in the past. Those included have been reported to include Maggie Q.

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2000	The Legendary 'Tai Fei'	Kei, wife of Fei
	Model from Hell	Anna
	Gen-Y Cops	Jane Quigley
2001	Manhattan Midnight	Susan/Hope
	Rush Hour 2	Girl in Car
2002	Naked Weapon	Charlene Ching
2004	Magic Kitchen	May
	Around the World in 80 Days	Female Agent
	Rice Rhapsody	Gigi
2005	Taped	Maggie
	House of Harmony	Harmony
	Dragon Squad	Song
2006	The Counting House	The Girl
	Mission: Impossible III	Zhen Lei
2007	Live Free or Die Hard	Mai Linh
	Balls of Fury	Maggie Wong
2008	The List	TBA
	Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon	Cao Yin

References

External links

• Maggie Q at the Internet Movie Database
• MaggieQ.net The Official Website
• MaggieQ.us Maggie Q Fansite