Lucy Liu

**Lucy Liu** (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress. She was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. Her parents parents originally came from Beijing and Shanghai and immigrated to Taiwan as adults before meeting in New York. Liu has been in many movies and many television programs.

### Film

|Year|Title|Role|Notes||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1992|_Rhythm of Destiny_|Wednesday Addams (Alex Munday from Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) / Inque (Lucy Liu) / Donna|I Love Lucy||||
|1993|_Protozoa_|Ari|Short||||
|1995|_Bang_|Hooker|Kitty Baxter||||
|rowspan="2"|1996|_Guy_|Woman at Newsstand|Alex Munday|||
|_Jerry Maguire_|Former Girlfriend|Alex Munday|||||
|rowspan="2"|1997|_Gridlock'd_|Cee-Cee|Cee-Cee|||
|_City of Industry_|Cathi Rose|Amanda (Our Girl)|||||
|rowspan="2"|1998|_Flypaper_|Dot|Inque|||
|_Love Kills_|Kashi|O Ren Ishii|||||
|rowspan="5"|1999|_Payback_|Pearl|O Ren Ishi|||
|_True Crime_|Toy Shop Girl|O Ren Ishi|||||
|_Molly_|Brenda|O Ren Ishi|||||
|__|The Female's Friend (Lydia)|Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction) Gone In 60 Seconds (Angelina Jolie) Alex Munday Alexandria Alexandra Alexis Alex Munday / O Ren Ishi Alex Monday (Scary Movie 2) Kevin Prudente (Elena Houghlin) Scream (1996) The Craft (Fairuza Balk) Rose McGowan (Scream) Neve Campbell Neve Campbell (Rose McGowan) Kevin Prudente Drew Barrymore|||||
|_Play It to the Bone_|Lia|Leo Rivera|||||
|rowspan="2"|2000|_Shanghai Noon_|Princess Pei Pei|Shy Mane|||
|_Charlie's Angels_|Alex Munday|Adrian Blanco Movie|||||
|2001|_Hotel_|Kawika|Shy Mane||||
|rowspan="3"|2002|_Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever_|Agent Sever|Inque|||
|_Cypher_|Rita Foster|Inque|||||
|_Chicago_|Kitty Baxter|Shy Mane|||||
|rowspan="2"|2003|_Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle_|Alex Munday||||
|_Kill Bill: Volume 1_|rowspan="2"|O-Ren Ishii|||||
|rowspan="2"|2004|_Kill Bill: Volume 2_|O Ren Ishi / Licy lucy lucy Licy Lucy Lu Lucy Liu's final motion role||||
|_Mulan II_|Mei (voice)|Video|||||
|rowspan="2"|2005|_3 Needles_|Jin Ping||||
|_Domino_|Taryn Mills||||||
|2006|_Lucky Number Slevin_|Lindsey|||||
|rowspan="3"|2007|_Code Name: The Cleaner_|Gina||||
|_Rise: Blood Hunter_|Sadie Blake||||||
|_Watching the Detectives_|Violet||||||
|rowspan="3"|2008|__|Anne||||
|_Kung Fu Panda_|Master Viper (voice)||||||
|_Tinker Bell_|rowspan="3"|Silvermist (voice)|rowspan="2"|Video|||
|2009|_Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure_||||||
|rowspan="2"|2010|_Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue_|||||
|_Nomads_|Susan||||||
|rowspan="4"|2011|_Detachment_|Dr. Doris Parker||||
|__|Andrea||||||
|_Kung Fu Panda 2_|Master Viper (voice)||||||
|_Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You_|Rowena||||||
|rowspan="2"|2012|_Secret of the Wings_|Silvermist (voice)||||
|__|Madame Blossom||||||
|2013|__|Lady Sagami (voice)|||||
|rowspan="3"|2014|__|rowspan="2"|Silvermist (voice)|rowspan="2"|Video|
|_Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast_|||||||
|_Magic Wonderland_|Princess Ocean (voice)||||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|_Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll_|rowspan="2"|Master Viper (voice)|Short||
|_Kung Fu Panda 3_|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2018|_Future World_|The Queen||||
|_Set It Up_|Kirsten Stevens||||||
|2020|_Stage Mother_|Sienna|||||
|2022|_Strange World_|Callisto Mal (voice)|||||
|2023|_Shazam! Fury of the Gods_|Kalypso|||||
|rowspan="4"|2024|_Presence_|Rebecca Payne||||
|_The Tiger's Apprentice_|Nu Kua/Cynthia (voice)||||||
|_Old Guy_|Anata||||||
|_Red One_|Zoe Harlow||||||

### Television

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1991|_Beverly Hills, 90210_|Courtney|Episode: "Pass, Not Pass"|||
|1993|_L.A. Law_|Mei Lin|Episode: "Foreign Co-Respondent"|||
|rowspan="2"|1994|_Hotel Malibu_|Co-Worker|Episode: "Do Not Disturb"||
|_Coach_|Nicole Wong|Episode: "It Should Happen to You" & "Out of Control"||||
|rowspan="3"|1995|_Home Improvement_|Woman #3|Episode: "Bachelor of the Year"||
|_Hercules: The Legendary Journeys_|Oi-Lan|Episode: "The March to Freedom"||||
|_ER_|Mei-Sun Leow|Recurring cast (season 2)||||
|rowspan="3"|1996|_Nash Bridges_|Joy Powell|Episode: "Genesis"||
|__|Kim Hsin|Episode: "Hell Money"||||
|_High Incident_|Officer Whin|2 episodes||||
|1996–1997|_Pearl_|Amy Li|Main cast|||
|rowspan="5"|1997|__|Melana (voice)|2 episodes||
|_NYPD Blue_|Amy Chu|Episode: "A Wrenching Experience"||||
|_Riot_|Tiffany|Episode: "Empty"||||
|_Dellaventura_|Yuling Chong|Episode: "Pilot"||||
|_Michael Hayes_|Alice Woo|Episode: "Slaves"||||
|1998–2002|_Ally McBeal_|Ling Woo|Main cast (season 2–4), recurring cast (season 5)|||
|rowspan="3"|2000|_MADtv_|Herself/Host|Episode: "Episode #6.6"||
|_Live & Kicking_|rowspan="3"|Herself|Episode: "Episode #8.8"|||
|_Saturday Night Live_|Episode: "Lucy Liu/Jay-Z" Cut for Time Sketch: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"|||||
|2001|_Sex and the City_|Episode: "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda"||||
|2001–2002|_Futurama_|Herself (voice)|2 episodes|||
|rowspan="3"|2002|_Rank_|rowspan="2"|Herself|Episode: "25 Toughest Stars"|
|_VH-1 Behind the Movie_|Episode: "Chicago"|||||
|_King of the Hill_|Tid Pao (voice)|Episode: "Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do"||||
|rowspan="2"|2003|_Biography_|rowspan="2"|Herself|Episode: "Bernie Mac: TV's Family Man"|
|_Bo' Selecta!_|Episode: "Episode #2.5"|||||
|rowspan="2"|2004|_Jackie Chan Adventures_|Adult Jade Chan (voice)|Episode: "J2: Rise of the Dragons"||
|_Game Over_|Raquel Smashenburn (voice)|Main cast||||
|2004–2005|_Joey_|Lauren Beck|Recurring cast (season 1)|||
|2004–2007|_Maya & Miguel_|Maggie Lee (voice)|Recurring cast (season 1–5)|||
|rowspan="2"|2005|_Clifford's Puppy Days_|Teacup (voice)|Episode: "Adopt-a-Pup"||
|__|Madam Wu (voice)|Episode: "Goo Goo Gai Pan"||||
|2006|_Getaway_|Herself/Celebrity Traveller|Episode: "Episode #15.38"|||
|2007|_Ugly Betty_|Grace Chin|2 episodes|||
|rowspan="3"|2008|_Cashmere Mafia_|Mia Mason|Main cast||
|_Ben & Izzy_|Yasmine (voice)|Main cast||||
|_Little Spirit: Christmas in New York_|Leo's Mom (voice)|Television film||||
|2008–2009|_Dirty Sexy Money_|Nola Lyons|Main cast (season 2)|||
|2009|_Afro Samurai: Resurrection_|Sio (voice)|Television film|||
|rowspan="3"|2010|_Marry Me_|Rae Carter|Episode: "Part 1 & 2"||
|_Ni Hao, Kai-Lan_|Bear Queen (voice)|Episode: "Princess Kai-Lan"||||
|_Kung Fu Panda Holiday_|Master Viper (voice)|Television film||||
|2011|_Pixie Hollow Games_|Silvermist (voice)|Television film|||
|2011–2016|_Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness_|Master Viper (voice)|Main cast|||
|2012|_Southland_|Officer Jessica Tang|Recurring cast (season 4)|||
|2012–2019|_Elementary_|Dr. Joan Watson|Main cast|||
|2013|_Pixie Hollow Bake Off_|Silvermist (voice)|Television film|||
|2014|_Huading Awards_|Herself/Host|Main host|||
|2015–2016|_Jeopardy!_|Herself/Video Clue Presenter|2 episodes|||
|2016|_Girls_|Detective Mosedale|Episode: "Japan"|||
|rowspan="3"|2017|_Difficult People_|Veronica Ford|Recurring cast (season 3)||
|_Sesame Street_|Cinderella|Episode: "Cinderella's Slippery Slippers"||||
|_Michael Jackson's Halloween_|Conformity (voice)|Television film||||
|2018|_Animals_|Yumi (voice)|Recurring cast (season 3)|||
|2019|_Why Women Kill_|Simone|Main cast (season 1)|||
|2020|_A World of Calm_|Herself/Narrator (voice)|Episode: "The Coral City"|||
|rowspan="4"|2021|_Star Wars: Visions_|Bandit Leader (voice)|Episode: "The Duel"||
|_Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?_|Herself (voice)|Episode: "The Tao of Scoob!"||||
|_Curb Your Enthusiasm_|Herself|Episode: "The Five-Foot Fence"||||
|_Death to 2021_|Snook Austin|Television special||||
|rowspan="2"|2024|_A Man in Full_|Joyce Newman|Main cast||
|_Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld_|Moonie Chau (voice)|In production||||

### Video games

|Year|Title|Voice role|
| --- | --- | --- |
|2001|_SSX Tricky_|Elise Riggs|
|2003|_Charlie's Angels_|Alex Munday|
|2012|_Sleeping Dogs_|Vivienne Lu|
|2023|_The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend_|Cheng Shih|

### Documentary

|Year|Title|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2004|_My Date with Drew_|Herself|||
|2009|_Redlight_|Narrator|Producer||
|2019|_QT8: The First Eight_|rowspan="2"|Herself||
|2022|_If You Have_||||

### Director

|Year|Title|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2014|_Meena_|Short film||
|2014–2019|_Elementary_|7 seasons||
|2015|_Graceland_|Episode: "Master of Weak Ties"||
|2018|_Luke Cage_|Episode: "Soul Brother #1"||
|rowspan="2"|2019|_Law & Order: Special Victims Unit_|Episode: "Dearly Beloved"|
|_Why Women Kill_|Episode: "Marriages Don't Break Up on Account of Murder - It's Just A Symptom That Something Else Is Wrong"|||
|2020|_New Amsterdam_|Episode: "Hiding Behind My Smile"||
|2023|_American Born Chinese_|Episode: "Hot Stuff"||

## Art exhibitions

|Year|Title|class="unsortable"|Location|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1993|_Unraveling_|As Liu Yu-ling, Cast Iron Gallery, SoHo, New York, US|Collection of multimedia art pieces, photographs|||
|2006|_Antenna_|Emotion Picture Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada|Incorporating paint and drawing into photographs. Seven pieces of which two new. March 5 to June 30.|||
|2007|—|Art Basel Miami, Casa Tua in South Beach Miami, US as part of Montblanc's Cutting Edge Art Collection|Painting _Escape_, a black and white abstraction|||
|2008|_je suis. envois-moi_|As Yu Ling, Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany|Six oil paintings, four prints and ten sculptures. Revenue was donated to UNICEF. May 8 to 31|||
|2010|—|As Yu Ling. Painting included in the Bloomsbury Auctions 20th Century Art and Editions sale in New York, US|Painting|||
|2011|_Seventy Two_|Salon Vert, London, UK|Personal canvases – hand-stitched and stuck with funny little found objects, pieces of rubbish|||
|2013|_Totem_|The Popular Institute gallery, Manchester, UK|Series of work on linen, explores the fragility of the human form|||
|2019|_Unhomed Belongings_|National Museum of Singapore|First museum exhibit, included works by Shubigi Rao|||
|2023|_what was_|The New York Studio School, New York City, US|Collection of multimedia art pieces, acrylic on canvas, books and found objects|||

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Award|Category|Nominated work|Result||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1997|rowspan=3|Screen Actors Guild Award|rowspan=3|Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series|rowspan=7|_Ally McBeal_||
|1998||||||||
|rowspan=4|1999|rowspan=5||||||
|NAACP Image Award|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|||||||
|Primetime Emmy Award|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series|||||||
|rowspan=2|Screen Actors Guild Award|Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series||||||
|rowspan=2|2000|Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series||||||
|rowspan=2|Blockbuster Entertainment Award|Favorite Supporting Actress – Action|_Shanghai Noon_|rowspan=3||||
|rowspan=4|2001|Favorite Team|rowspan=4|_Charlie's Angels_||||
|rowspan=2|MTV Movie Award|Best On-Screen Duo||||||
|Best Dressed|rowspan=2|||||||
|Saturn Award|Best Supporting Actress|||||||
|rowspan=5|2003|Broadcast Film Critics Association Award|Best Cast|rowspan=4|_Chicago_|||
|Phoenix Film Critics Society Award|Best Cast|||||||
|Screen Actors Guild Award|Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture|||||||
|Teen Choice Award|Choice Hissy Fit|rowspan=2||||||
|rowspan=2|MTV Movie Award|Best Dance Sequence|_Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle_|||||
|rowspan=2|2004|Best Villain|rowspan=2|_Kill Bill: Volume 1_||||
|Saturn Award|Best Supporting Actress|rowspan=2||||||
|2011|NAACP Image Award|Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special|_Marry Me_|||||
|2012|New York Women in Film & Television Muse Award|Best Actress|rowspan=4|_Elementary_||||
|rowspan=5|2013|Prism Awards|Female Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode|||||
|Seoul International Drama Awards|Best Actress|rowspan=3||||||
|Teen Choice Awards|Choice TV Actress: Action|||||||
|Critics' Choice Television Award|Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series|rowspan=2|_Southland_|||||
|NAACP Image Award|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|rowspan=6|||||
|2015|rowspan=3|People's Choice Awards|rowspan=3|Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress|rowspan=3|_Elementary_||
|2016||||||||
|2017||||||||
|rowspan=2|2024|Golden Raspberry Award|Worst Supporting Actress|_Shazam! Fury of the Gods_||||
|Primetime Emmy Award|Outstanding Emerging Media Program|_The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu_||||||

## Infobox (chinese)

- **child**: yes
- **order**: ts
- **t**: 劉玉玲
- **s**: 刘玉玲
- **p**: Liú Yùlíng


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Lucy Liu
- **image**: Lucy Liu Cannes 2008.jpg
- **caption**: Cannes 2008
- **birth name**: Lucy Liu
- **birth place**: New York City, U.S.
- **alma mater**: University of Michigan
New York Studio School
- **occupation**: Actress
- **years active**: 1991–present
- **children**: 1