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 Birth Name: Lucy Alexis Liu
Date of Birth: December 2, 1968
Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5 ' 3 "
Lucy Liu was born in the Italian neighborhood of Queens, New York. Her parents, immigrants from China, raised her the American way, yet she felt culturally alienated because of her Asian background. Lucy finished high school, at Stuyvesant H.S., in 1986 and went to New York University, where she only stayed for a year. She transferred to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she graduated with a degree in Asian languages and cultures. During this time she was also studying acting, dancing and singing.
She speaks fluency Mandarin, and knows Kali-Eskrima-Silat, an Indonesian martial art with crude forms of knife and sword fighting. Lucy Liu's big break came on the sitcom Ally McBeal in the Episode "They Eat Horses Don't They". She played the icy role of Ling Woo, an assertive plant manager (and ex-lawyer) suing a shock jock radio for sexual harassment. Lucy Liu can also be seen in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) starring Uma Thurman, and in Lucky Number Slevin (2006).
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