Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu (full name Lucy Alexis Liu) is a Hollywood actress, fashion model, artist and producer. Has a surprisingly attractive and aristocratic appearance, completely devoid of Asian stereotypes, works 14 hours daily.

Lucy was born on December 2, 1968 in New York into a poor family of Chinese immigrants who left their home country to start a new life in prosperous America.

Lucy's mother, Cecilia Liu, is a biochemist from Beijing. Father Tom Liu is a construction worker from Shanghai with a university degree. Lucy is the youngest of 3 children. She has an older brother, John Lew, and a sister, Jenny Lew.

Full of desire to give the girl a good ground for life in America, the parents, when the baby was 5 years old, send their daughter to the most prestigious specialized school in New York, Stuyvesant High School. In 1986, the girl successfully graduated from high school, participated in a cultural exchange program in Singapore and entered a private university in New York.

Studying at a prestigious university is discouraged by a sarcastic atmosphere, and a year later Lucy is transferred to the University of Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan with an academic bachelor's degree in Chinese language and culture, she additionally receives serious training in the field of dance, stage speech, visual arts and acting.

In her last years of study, Lucy tries her hand at cinema. She starred in the adventure movie "Alice in Wonderland". As an Asian-American student, Lucy plays the blue-eyed blonde Alice in the film.

Inspired by her experience and great success in cinema, Lucy decides to change her lifestyle and plunge into the world of professional acting. In the fall of 1990, the girl informs her parents that she intends to move to Los Angeles and become a professional actress.

Arriving in Los Angeles, Lucy begins to develop an acting career. She works as a waitress in food service establishments and in parallel attends hundreds of casting auditions. The nationality and type of the eastern girl does not allow her to quickly integrate into the acting environment. The future star is offered only cameo roles and participation in television shows.

In 1991, the aspiring actress could be seen in the youth television series Beverly Hills 90210. Liu played the role of Courtney.

After minor film and television roles, in 1998, Lucy was offered a role in the comedy-drama Ellie McBeal, directed by David E. Kelly. The role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Wo allowed Lucy to become one of the notable Hollywood actresses and receive an Emmy in 1999 for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1999, she repeatedly starred in films, but mainly in secondary roles. Lucy portrays an upscale BDSM prostitute named Pearl with ties to the Asian mafia in the thriller Reckoning, plays the role of a toy saleswoman in the action movie True Crime, stars in the comedy films Molly and The Marriage Games of Earthly Dwellers, participates in the saga. Hit the bone. "

2000 brought Lucy Liu more serious roles. She plays the kidnapped princess Pei Pei in the comedy film Shanghai Noon with Jackie Chan, and stars in the box office thriller Charlie's Angels.

In the last tape, Lucy played the role of one of the "angels". The other two agents were Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Aaliyah and Victoria Beckham were considered for the role of Alex. An interesting fact: actress Thandie Newton eventually passed the casting, but later the actress refused the role, and Lew became the third "angel".

An unpleasant incident happened while working on the film. Actor Bill Murray severely criticized Lucy's acting during the filming. She did not keep silent and answered the eminent artist rudely and obscenely. As a result, a quarrel boiled over. Sometimes filming was stopped for a couple of days to let the actors cool off.

In 2001, the girl was invited to become the official face of the cosmetic brand Revlon. Liu gladly accepts the offer.

In 2002, she starred in the enchanting thriller Ballistics: Ex vs. Siver with Antonio Banderas, the action movie Coder with Jeremy Northam, and the musical Chicago with Richard Gere.

2003 was especially eventful for the actress. In early June, the second part of the blockbuster "Charlie's Angels - 2: Only Forward" was released. In autumn - the fourth film directed by K. Tarantino "Kill Bill". In 2005, Lucy Liu starred in the Canadian trilogy Three Needles and the action movie Domino.

In 2006, with the participation of the actress, the crime horror film Lucky Number Slevin was released, in which she plays the main role, and the artist's partners are Josh Hartnett, the charismatic Bruce Willis and the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman. With her participation, the films "Hide it far away", "Having seen enough detectives", "Vampire", "Nicknamed the Cleaner" are shot.

The actress also appears in the TV series Dirty Wet Money, which tells the story of a wealthy Darling family. Lucy played the role of Nola Lyons, with whom one of the heirs of the clan, Jeremy Darling, struck up a relationship.

In 2008, she voiced the animated films Kung Fu Panda and Fairies, as well as their sequels Fairies - Magic Rescue and Fairies - Lost Treasure.

In 2011, two high-grossing films with the participation of the actress were released, including the atypical drama "Replacement Teacher", the funny comedy "One day this pain will benefit you." The actress stars in the detective television series "Elementary", which presents a new version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes today. Lucy is played by Joan Watson, the famous detective's assistant. Holmes was portrayed by the popular actor Johnny Lee Miller.

In 2013 Lucy receives an invitation to become a member of AMPAS

In 2016, Lucy re-voiced Master Viper in the third installment of Kung Fu Panda.

Journalists have repeatedly "betrayed" Lucy to marry a variety of men, having seen the girl in joint photos with them. She was credited with an affair with the financier Noam Gottesman, then she allegedly met with actor George Clooney and director Zach Helm. At the same time, Lucy herself claims that she is not ripe for novels and creating a full-fledged family.

On August 27, 2015, she announced the birth of a son, whom her surrogate mother was carrying. The woman named the child Rockwell Lloyd Lew.

After the birth of the baby, Lucy went into maternal care and began to appear less often at social events. But every star's appearance becomes an event. Indeed, in her years, the actress looks fresh and young, and journalists often ask Liu to share her beauty secrets.

In 2016, the artist launched her footwear line in collaboration with Italian designer Bruno Magli. In honor of this event, the woman gave an interview, where she spoke about her lifestyle and self-care.

Lucy regularly runs, pilates, drinks a lot of water. The actress does not sit on special diets, she has been accustomed to eating little since childhood, because the family had problems with money. Therefore, today Lucy prefers a healthy diet, Liu is a vegetarian. The woman is 160 cm tall and weighs 53 kg. In conversations with journalists, the artist assures that she did not resort to plastic surgery.

One interesting nuance can be noticed in the appearance of a celebrity. Lucy Liu suffers from amblyopia. This is a condition in which one eye is the leading, and the other relaxes and squints slightly. This can be caused by squint, genetic predisposition, and uneven size of the eyeballs. This syndrome occurs in Ryan Gosling, Kate Middleton, Blake Lively and others, but this did not prevent them from achieving success.

Lucy is not married, lives with her son in New York, studies various religions: Buddhism, Taoism and Jewish mysticism. She declares that she believes in things of spiritual origin associated with meditation and chanting. In her youth, she studied Chinese philosophy, so everything metaphysical is still fascinating today.

In 1991, the actress underwent a mastectomy, a surgery to remove breast cancer. It was a very difficult period in her life with a long recovery period.

Since 2004, she has been a member of the Sino-American Organization Committee of 100. The actress is an unwavering advocate of equality for same-sex marriage.

Lucy is a virtuoso accordion player, loves skiing and horseback riding, climbing and the Filipino martial arts of arnis, or escrima, and kali.

Thousands of fans follow the life and career biography of the artist on the social network "Instagram". Lucy regularly uploads personal and work photos for fans to see. The actress also shares her thoughts with readers on the Twitter microblog.

In July 2017, it became known that the artist will direct one episode of the second season of the television series Luke Cage. Lucy has already tried herself as a director in the projects "Elementary" and "Graceland".

In the spring of 2018, the actress appeared at the Obie Awards in New York in the guise of a blonde. For the first time in recent years, Liu has made dramatic changes in her appearance.

What is the reason for the changes, Lucy has not yet announced. But the audience suggested that the matter was in the upcoming project. She was recently cast as one of the lead roles in the dramatic comedy Stage Mother, which will feature Jackie Weaver and Tay Diggs in addition to Liu. Who will play Lucy is still unknown. Today the film is in pre-production stage. The premiere of the picture is scheduled for 2019.

In May 2018, the actress appeared as the Queen in the fantasy film Future World. In the story, a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world embarks on a dangerous journey into the world of the Wasteland to find a cure for his sick mother.

James Franco, Sookie Waterhouse, Margarita Levieva and others became Lucy Liu's colleagues on the set.

In June 2018, viewers will see the artist as the workaholic leader Kirsten in the comedy "Podstava". In the story, two assistants, in whose images Zoe Deutsch and Pete Davidson were reincarnated, decide to shine on their obnoxious bosses so that they find love and stop staying up late at work and delaying assistants.

1991 - Beverly Hills 90210 2000 - Shanghai Noon 2000 - Charlie's Angels 2002 - Ballistics: Ex vs. Siver Agent Siver 2002 - Coder 2002 - Chicago 2003 - Charlie's Angels: Just Go 2003 - Kill Bill 2004 - Kill Bill. Movie 2 "2005 -" Domino "2007 -" Vampire "2011 -" Replacement teacher "2012 - up to now. time - "Elementary" 2018 - "World of the Future" 2018 - "Podstava" 2019 - "Stage Mother"

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Lucy Liu Net Worth 2021

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.7M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $986.2K - $1.5M.

Lucy Liu Net Worth 2020

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.7M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $823.1K - $1.3M.

Lucy Liu Net Worth 2019

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.5M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $798.1K - $1.9M.

Lucy Liu Net Worth 2018

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.1M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $669.2K - $1.5M.

Lucy Liu Net Worth 2017

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.3M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $997.9K - $1.9M.

Lucy Liu Net Worth 2016

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.8M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $785.8K - $1.4M.

Lucy Liu Net Worth 2015

Lucy Liu 's revenue is $1.4M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Lucy Liu and could vary in the range between $808.7K - $1.3M.

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