Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress who has worked in both television and movies. She has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards and has won a Critic's Choice Award and a Seoul International Drama Award. She has also been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and has received nominations for three People's Choice Awards and two Saturn Awards. Liu is best known for her roles as Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), Alex Munday in the Charlie's Angels films (2000–2003), Master Viper in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–2016), Silvermist in the Tinker Bell series (2008–2015), and Joan Watson in the crime-drama series Elementary (2012–2019). Her film work includes starring in Payback (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Shanghai Noon (2000), Chicago (2002), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), and Set It Up (2018). Her other voice credits include Mulan II (2004), as well as the English and Mandarin-dubbed versions of Magic Wonderland (2014) and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013).

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