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Lucy Liu BiographyLucy Liu was born on December 2nd, 1967 in Queens, New York City, New York. Her parents are Chinese immigrants; her father is a civil engineer and her mother is a biochemist. Her parents taught their children both Mandarin and English and brought there kids up the American way. Liu had a somewhat hard time striking a balance between her Chinese lineage and the American way of life, but with the passage of time she was able to learn and adapt to it. She once stated: “You go through a period when you don’t like being Asian; you want to be “American”.Lucy Liu finished high school, in 1986, from Stuyvesant H.S. After that she went to New York University and stayed there for about a year. Finding the environment there rather gloomy and sarcastic, she transferred to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to earn a degree in Asian Languages and Cultures. While she was doing her graduation she also managed to sqeeze in some additional training in dance, voice, fine arts, and acting. She studied art in China under a special grant and won considerable praise for her exhibit of mixed media photographic pictures. While still in the senior year of college, Liu auditioned for a small part in a production of Alice In Wonderland and walked away with the lead role. This was an encouraging experience and a turning point in her life and one that made her take the plunge into professional acting. Liu moved to Los Angeles for some more auditions while at the same time doing a few odd jobs. Eventually, Liu managed to get herself a guest appearance as a waitress in “Beverly Hills, 90210” (1990). That performance helped her get a few more small roles. In 1996, she was cast as an ambitious college student in Rhea Perlman’s sitcom “Pearl”. Her acting career really took off when she was cast as Ling Woo on Fox’s hit series Ally Mcbeal in 1998. Lucy Liu lit up the big screen in such movies as Payback (1999), Shanghai Noon (2000), Charlie's Angels (2000), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), and Quentin Tarantino's 2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Apart from all this this, Lucy also practices Kali-Eskrima-Silat (the art of knife and rod fighting). She also snow boards, repels mountains, skis and is a good athelete. Her friends describe her as fearless. Her Love For Action!Liu loves being able to flex her muscles in action films because it gives her the chance to show off her martial arts skills which she learned as a kid. The good thing is that her fans love to see her do the action stunts just as much. Her fast moves are just a treat for anybody who loves watching action movies. |
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Hollywood actress Lucy Liu was so taken by a unique piece of modern artwork she saw hanging on a friend's wall, she bought it along with three other works by British artist ANNE MORRIS.
The KILL BILL beauty fell in love with the collage comprising of 5,000 clothes pegs - each individual peg bears the image of a woman, and depicts a woman's face when viewed altogether from a distance.(3/11/2005)