Maggie Q

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Born as Margaret Denise Quigley in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1979, Maggie Q is the daughter of an American father of Irish and Polish descent and a Vietnamese mother, giving her a dual cultural identity and a Vietnamese name, Lý Mỹ Kỳ. She completed her secondary education at Mililani High School, then traveled alone to Japan to work as a fashion model before moving to Taiwan and Hong Kong to begin her acting career. She received her first television role in 1998 and started her film career in Hong Kong, where she did not speak Chinese, so her films were either in English or dubbed. In 2000, she received her first leading role in Gen-Y Cops as an FBI agent sent to Hong Kong. She gained widespread fame in 2002 through her role in Naked Weapon as a trained assassin named Charlene Ching, attracting attention from both Chinese and Western audiences. In 2005, she moved to Hollywood and appeared in the telefilm House of Harmony, adapted from a Singaporean drama series. She played a notable role in Mission: Impossible III in 2006 as the sole female member of Tom Cruise's team. She appeared in Live Free or Die Hard in 2007 alongside Bruce Willis as a computer hacker. She made her first Chinese historical film appearance in 2008 in Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon as Cao Ying. In 2010, she led the television series Nikita on The CW, her first starring role in an American TV series, which ran for four seasons until 2013. She starred in the CBS series Stalker in 2014, described as the scariest series in history. She also appeared in the Divergent film trilogy based on the dystopian bestseller starting in 2014. She joined the ABC series Designated Survivor from 2016 to 2019 as an FBI agent, then transitioned to a CIA agent in the third season produced by Netflix. In 2019, she appeared in the horror film Fantasy Island, released on Valentine's Day 2020. Maggie Q is also known for her strict vegetarianism in solidarity with animals in factory farms.