page_title: Lucy Liu
section_title: Charity
hierarchical_section_title: Lucy Liu / Charity
caption_attribution_description: USAID Human Trafficking Symposium, Sept. 16, 2009 -- Actress and UNICEF Ambassador Lucy Liu spoke out against human trafficking and lauded USAID efforts to increase awareness.
context_page_description: Lucy Liu is a Chinese-American actress, who has worked in both television and movies. She is best known for playing the role of Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal, Alex Munday in the Charlie's Angels films, O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill, and Joan Watson in the crime-drama series Elementary. Liu has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards and has won the Seoul International Drama Award for Best Actress. 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's film work includes starring in Payback, Charlie's Angels, Shanghai Noon, Chicago, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Lucky Number Slevin, The Man with the Iron Fists, and Set It Up.
  Liu is also a voice actress and has voiced Master Viper in the Kung Fu Panda franchise. She also voiced Silvermist in Tinker Bell, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, Pixie Hollow Games, Secret of the Wings, The Pirate Fairy, and Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast.
context_section_description: In 2001, Liu was the spokeswoman for the Lee National Denim Day fundraiser, which raises money for breast cancer research and education. In 2004 Liu was appointed an ambassador for U.S. Fund for UNICEF. She traveled to Pakistan and Lesotho, among several other countries.
  Early in 2006, Liu received an "Asian Excellence Award" for Visibility. She also hosted an MTV documentary, Traffic, for the MTV EXIT campaign in 2007. In 2008, she produced and narrated the short film The Road to Traffik, about the Cambodian author and human rights advocate Somaly Mam. The film was directed by Kerry Girvin and co-produced by photographer Norman Jean Roy. This led to a partnership with producers on the documentary film Redlight.
  Liu is a supporter of marriage equality for same-sex marriage, and became a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign in 2011. She 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.
caption: Liu speaking at the USAID Human Trafficking Symposium in September 2009.
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