1. Lucy Liu received further recognition for starring in the action comedy film Charlie's Angels and its sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and the martial arts action film Kill Bill: Volume 1 and its sequel Kill Bill: Volume 2.
50 Facts About Lucy Liu
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Lucy Liu starred as Dr Joan Watson in the CBS crime drama series Elementary.
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Lucy Liu voiced Master Viper in the first three installments of the Kung Fu Panda franchise and Silvermist in the Tinker Bell series.
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Lucy Liu was born in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.
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Lucy Liu's mother, Cecilia, worked as a biochemist, and her father, Tom Liu, was a civil engineer who sold digital clock pens.
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Lucy Liu has an older brother, John, and an older sister, Jenny.
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Lucy Liu's parents had many jobs while Lucy and her siblings were growing up.
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Lucy Liu has stated that she grew up in a diverse neighborhood.
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Lucy Liu learned to speak Mandarin at home and began studying English when she was five.
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Lucy Liu studied the martial art kali-eskrima-silat as a hobby when she was young.
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Lucy Liu 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.
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Lucy Liu became interested in acting as a child, after hearing about someone her own age who had been in a television commercial.
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Lucy Liu had small roles in films and TV, marking her debut.
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Lucy Liu co-starred on the Rhea Perlman sitcom Pearl, which lasted one season.
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Shortly after the end of Pearl's run in 1997, Lucy Liu was cast in a role on Ally McBeal.
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Lucy Liu originally auditioned for the role of Nelle Porter, and the character Ling Woo was later created specifically for her.
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In 2000, Lucy Liu starred in Charlie's Angels along with Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz.
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In 2001, Lucy Liu was the spokeswoman for the Lee National Denim Day fundraiser, which raises money for breast cancer research and education.
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In 2004 Lucy Liu was appointed an ambassador for US Fund for UNICEF.
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Lucy Liu traveled to Pakistan and Lesotho, among several other countries.
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In 2002, Lucy Liu played Rita Foster in Vincenzo Natali's Brainstorm.
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Lucy Liu appeared as O-Ren Ishii in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film, Kill Bill.
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Lucy Liu won an MTV Award for Best Movie Villain for her part in Kill Bill.
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Subsequently, Lucy Liu appeared on several episodes of Joey with Matt LeBlanc, who played her love interest in the Charlie's Angels films.
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Lucy Liu had minor roles as Kitty Baxter in the film Chicago and as a psychologist opposite Keira Knightley in the thriller Domino.
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Lucy Liu had previously presented her artwork under her Chinese name, Yu Ling.
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Lucy Liu, who is an artist in several media, has had several gallery shows showcasing her collage, paintings, and photography.
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Lucy Liu began doing collage mixed media when she was 16 years old, and became a photographer and painter.
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Lucy Liu attended the New York Studio School for drawing, painting, and sculpture from 2004 to 2006.
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In September 2006, Lucy Liu held an art show and donated her share of the profits to UNICEF.
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Lucy Liu's painting, "Escape", was incorporated into Montblanc's Cutting Edge Art Collection and was shown during Art Basel Miami 2008, which showed works by contemporary American artists.
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Lucy Liu has stated that she donated her share of the profits from the NYC Milk Gallery gallery show to UNICEF.
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Early in 2006, Lucy Liu received an "Asian Excellence Award" for Visibility.
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Lucy Liu hosted an MTV documentary, Traffic, for the MTV EXIT campaign in 2007.
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In 2007, Lucy Liu appeared in Code Name: The Cleaner; Rise: Blood Hunter, a supernatural thriller co-starring Michael Chiklis in which Lucy Liu plays an undead reporter ; and Watching the Detectives, an independent romantic comedy co-starring Cillian Murphy.
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Lucy Liu planned to make her producing debut and star in a remake of Charlie Chan, which had been planned as early as 2000.
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Lucy Liu played Nola Lyons, a powerful attorney who faced Nick George.
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Lucy Liu voiced Silvermist in Disney Fairies and Viper in Kung Fu Panda.
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Lucy Liu is a supporter of marriage equality for same-sex marriage, and became a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign in 2011.
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Lucy Liu has teamed up with Heinz to combat the widespread global health threat of iron deficiency anemia and vitamin and mineral malnutrition among infants and children in the developing world.
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Elementary is an American Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and the role Lucy Liu was offered is traditionally played by men.
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Lucy Liu has gained praise for her role as Watson, including three consecutive nominations for the People's Choice Awards for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress.
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Lucy Liu has played police officer Jessica Tang on Southland, a television show focusing on the lives of police officers and detectives in Los Angeles, as a recurring guest actor during the fourth season.
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Lucy Liu received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Guest Actress for this role.
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In 2013, Lucy Liu was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Lucy Liu was awarded the Harvard Foundation's arts medal at the annual Harvard Foundation Award ceremony, during the Cultural Rhythms Festival in Sanders Theatre.
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Lucy Liu is part of the cast in the post-apocalyptic thriller Future World, directed by James Franco and Bruce Thierry Cheung.
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Lucy Liu has studied various religions, mainly Buddhism and Taoism, and briefly Kabbalah.
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Lucy Liu has a son, Rockwell, who was born in 2015 via gestational surrogate.
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In 1991, Lucy Liu had surgery after a breast cancer scare.