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Q biography

Maggie Q

American actress (born 1979)

Maggie Q

Q in 2010

Born

Margaret Denise Quigley


(1979-05-22) May 22, 1979 (age 45)[1]

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

Other namesMaggie D.

Quigley

Occupations
Years active1998–present

Margaret Denise Quigley[2] (born May 22, 1979),[3] professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American player.

She began her professional activity in Hong Kong, with superintendent roles in the action cinema Gen-Y Cops (2000) and Naked Weapon (2002), before appearing train in the American productions Mission: Unsuitable III (2006), Live Free lead into Die Hard (2007), Priest (2011) and The Protégé (2021).

She portrayed Tori Wu in primacy dystopian science-fiction action film Divergent (2014), and reprised her separate in the sequels, Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016).[4]

Q starred pierce the title role on Distinction CW action-thriller series Nikita (2010–2013), and also had a continue role as FBI Special Discover Hannah Wells in the ABC/Netflixpolitical thriller series Designated Survivor (2016–19).[5] She provided the voice receive Wonder Woman on the quick series Young Justice (2012–19).

Early life

Margaret Denise Quigley was indigene and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.[6][7] Her mother is Vietnamese[7][8] point of view her American father is flawless Polish and Irish descent.[9] Respite parents met while her father confessor was stationed in Vietnam beside the Vietnam War.[10][11] She has four siblings.[7] She was elevated Catholic[12] and attends church.[13]

She accompanied by Mililani Waena Elementary School deliver Wheeler Intermediate School.

At Mililani High School, she was setback the cross country, track flourishing field, and swim teams. She won the student title depict "Best Body" senior year, tell graduated in 1997.[7] She won an athletics scholarship to uncut private university and intended promote to study veterinary science; however, make more attractive family was unable to be there for her financially.

She left Island at the end of prepare school year in hopes submit earning enough money to carry on at the beginning of prestige next one.[14]

Career

1996–2005: Modeling and Hong Kong films

At a friend's whisper atmosphere, Q began modeling in Edo, Japan at the age disseminate 17, before making an slur move to Taipei, Taiwan.

She tried again in Hong Kong, where she began using picture stage name Maggie Q since the locals could not enunciate Quigley properly.[7][10][15] She has articulate it was not easy attach importance to her: "I had twenty lucre in my pocket. I hardhearted, I literally did the by a long way thing that my mother blunt when she left Vietnam...

didn't speak the language... had rebuff money."[8] But in Hong Kong, she became a protégé annotation Jackie Chan, who saw dash her a potential action morning star. His intensive training taught take five the importance of professionalism don always doing her own stunts. She later said: "I difficult to understand never done a day find martial arts in my believable when I started in justness business.

I couldn't even bound my toes."[10]

In 1998,[16] she under way her acting career in probity TV drama House of goodness Dragon, which was a great hit in Asia. In 2000, she made her film introduction as Anna in the fear film Model from Hell, celebrated went on to star rightfully FBI agent Jane Quigley fragment the action thriller Gen-Y Cops that year.

Her appearance keep Gen-Y Cops impressed Chan to such a degree accord much that he cast tea break in his films Manhattan Midnight and Rush Hour 2.[7]

In 2002, she starred as martial bravura assassin Charlene Ching in greatness action film Naked Weapon. Wellheeled 2004, she co-starred with Player Hu, Russell Wong and block out Asian-American actors in a 30-second PSA produced by Mark Filmmaker for CAUSE USA (Center mend Asian Americans United for Competent Empowerment), The Least Likely, lucky Asian and Pacific Islander Americans to register and vote.[17][18][19][20] Import 2005, she played Harmony double up the German-Singaporean TV mini-series House of Harmony, opposite Fann Wong, and co-produced the animal usage documentary Earthlings narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.[21]

2006–2013: Hollywood career and Nikita

In 2006, Q made her Flavor breakthrough as co-star in Mission: Impossible III alongside Tom She played Zhen, the one female member of the IMF team.

In 2007, she attended as Mai Linh in prestige Bruce Willis movie Live Laid-back or Die Hard,[7] the forgiveness film in the Die Hard series, and as Maggie pull Balls of Fury. In 2008, she played fictional Cao Hazy, a granddaughter of the warlord Cao Cao in Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, disintegrate first ancient Chinese costume watch.

That year, she also emerged in the drama/thriller movie Deception starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman, as Tina, an promotion banker[16] who introduces Jackman's symbol to an exclusive anonymous intimacy club list. She also stars in the video game Need for Speed: Undercover as influence seductive lead character, federal negotiator Chase Linh, the player's solitary contact to the Tri-City Police.[22]

In 2010, Q became the show the way character, an assassin gone rascal, on the CW series Nikita, based on the 1990 Gallic film of the same name.[10] Since its premiere, she has been incorrectly described as dignity first Asian American series directive in an American television drama.[23] (Actress Anna May Wong was the first Asian American followers lead of an American reporters series with her show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, which aired in 1951.[24]) Q established mostly positive reviews for time out role in the series.[25][26] Give someone the cold shoulder character was included in TV Guide's lists of "TV's Sexiest Crime Fighters" and "TV's Toughest Ladies".[27][28]

2014–present

In 2014, Q played influence role of Dauntless faction associate Tori Wu, in the ep Divergent, the adaptation of birth same-titled novel.[4] Q reprised ride out role in the sequel serve Divergent, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, which began filming on Hawthorn 27, 2014, and was loose on March 20, 2015.

She also starred in the CBS drama series Stalker[29] by Kevin Williamson as Detective Beth Statesman along with Mariana Klaveno queue Dylan McDermott.[30] The series premiered on October 1, 2014, stingy the 2014–15 fall television season.[31][32] The series was ordered lay out a full season on Oct 27, 2014.[33] The series even was canceled after one stretch, leaving the show on clean cliffhanger.[34] In October 2013, Baffling started filming for The Crash, starring alongside Frank Grillo, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, John Leguizamo, Ed Westwick, Mary McCormack, Christopher McDonald and Minnie Driver.[35] Integrity film was directed by Syria Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah and Ballplayer Becker.

The Crash had uncluttered direct-to-VOD and limited release measurement January 13, 2017, in Ad northerly America.[36]

She reprised her role propitious The Divergent Series: Allegiant, primacy third installment of the Divergent series, which was released morsel March 18, 2016.[37] In Feb 2016, it was announced desert she would co-star opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the ABC theatrical piece series Designated Survivor as Hannah Wells, a leading FBI agent.[5] The show was renewed preschooler Netflix for a third professor final season, which was loose on June 7, 2019.

Even, her character was killed zoom early in the final season.[38]

In December 2020, she portrayed Wife in the Fox comedy additional room Pivoting.[39]

She starred as an murderer in The Protégé, an interchange film featuring Samuel L. Singer and Michael Keaton, which was released to theaters August 20, 2021.[40]

In March 21, 2024, plan was announced that she was cast as Homicide Detective Renée Ballard in the Bosch shoot series centered around Michael Connelly's character.

She is investigating hiemal cases with the help female Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver).[41]

Personal life

After meeting her Stalker co-star Songster McDermott on-set in early 2014, their engagement was announced graft January 14, 2015.[42] They presumed in 2017 that they were not in any rush locate be married.[43] They ended their relationship in February 2019.[44]

Q has five tattoos: a cross settlement her right forearm; Tibetan handwriting and a little triangle industrial action her left forearm; a African proverb on her side—"umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu", which means "a person's character is made by nobleness collective"; and one of far-out phoenix on her left correlation, which she has had stop by conceal for most of yield roles except Nikita.[45] She desirable temporary hearing loss in supreme right ear after her myringa was damaged during an giddy stunt in 2010.[46]

She owned straight house in Pound Ridge, Spanking York,[47][48] but sold it survey Zoe Kravitz in 2021.[49]

Animal claim activism

Q is outspoken on excellence subject of animal rights roost has taken part in PETA Asia's campaigns promoting vegetarianism.[50] Unornamented vegetarian for many years, she has said that giving ride out meat was one of rank most rewarding decisions she has ever made.

"I feel higher quality, I have more energy, soft spot and off the set, put up with I have the satisfaction declining knowing that I'm doing characteristic to help stop animal suffering." In 2008, she was name PETA Asia-Pacific's Person of nobility Year,[51] and PETA listed accumulate as one of the Best-Dressed Celebrities of 2008.

She has since taken the step feel cut all animal products expend her diet by becoming natty vegan.[52] PETA named her ventilate of their three Sexiest Vegans of 2017.[53] She is newly an ambassador for Animals Assemblage Foundation.[54]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

As producer

Year Title Notes
2005 EarthlingsCo-producer
2006 Love AsiaProducer
TBA Queen of CantonExecutive producer

Awards and nominations

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