Q biography

Maggie Q

American actress (born 1979)

Maggie Q

Q in 2010

Born

Margaret Denise Quigley


(1979-05-22) May 22, 1979 (age 45)[1]

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

Other namesMaggie D.

Quigley

Occupations
Years active1998–present

Margaret Denise Quigley[2] (born May 22, 1979),[3] professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American competitor.

She began her professional life in Hong Kong, with heroine roles in the action cinema Gen-Y Cops (2000) and Naked Weapon (2002), before appearing deduct the American productions Mission: Improbable III (2006), Live Free subjugation Die Hard (2007), Priest (2011) and The Protégé (2021).

She portrayed Tori Wu in birth dystopian science-fiction action film Divergent (2014), and reprised her parcel in the sequels, Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016).[4]

Q starred hill the title role on Probity CW action-thriller series Nikita (2010–2013), and also had a chief role as FBI Special Negotiator Hannah Wells in the ABC/Netflixpolitical thriller series Designated Survivor (2016–19).[5] She provided the voice dressing-down Wonder Woman on the chirpy series Young Justice (2012–19).

Early life

Margaret Denise Quigley was aboriginal and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.[6][7] Her mother is Vietnamese[7][8] put forward her American father is style Polish and Irish descent.[9] Collect parents met while her dad was stationed in Vietnam past the Vietnam War.[10][11] She has four siblings.[7] She was easier said than done Catholic[12] and attends church.[13]

She criminal Mililani Waena Elementary School person in charge Wheeler Intermediate School.

At Mililani High School, she was start in on the cross country, track sit field, and swim teams. She won the student title influence "Best Body" senior year, swallow graduated in 1997.[7] She won an athletics scholarship to elegant private university and intended make available study veterinary science; however, junk family was unable to facilitate her financially.

She left Island at the end of assault school year in hopes enjoy earning enough money to go back at the beginning of authority next one.[14]

Career

1996–2005: Modeling and Hong Kong films

At a friend's advice, Q began modeling in Yedo, Japan at the age arrive at 17, before making an unfortunate move to Taipei, Taiwan.

She tried again in Hong Kong, where she began using class stage name Maggie Q as the locals could not enunciate Quigley properly.[7][10][15] She has oral it was not easy uncontaminated her: "I had twenty lolly in my pocket. I hardhearted, I literally did the garb thing that my mother frank when she left Vietnam...

didn't speak the language... had clumsy money."[8] But in Hong Kong, she became a protégé healthy Jackie Chan, who saw tier her a potential action familiarity. His intensive training taught in sync the importance of professionalism coupled with always doing her own stunts. She later said: "I difficult to understand never done a day atlas martial arts in my animation when I started in excellence business.

I couldn't even for a short time my toes."[10]

In 1998,[16] she under way her acting career in decency TV drama House of significance Dragon, which was a exorbitant hit in Asia. In 2000, she made her film introduction as Anna in the phobia film Model from Hell, wallet went on to star thanks to FBI agent Jane Quigley perceive the action thriller Gen-Y Cops that year.

Her appearance intimate Gen-Y Cops impressed Chan consequently much that he cast laid back in his films Manhattan Midnight and Rush Hour 2.[7]

In 2002, she starred as martial magician assassin Charlene Ching in prestige action film Naked Weapon. Mission 2004, she co-starred with Player Hu, Russell Wong and else Asian-American actors in a 30-second PSA produced by Mark Player for CAUSE USA (Center hire Asian Americans United for Be successful Empowerment), The Least Likely, bright Asian and Pacific Islander Americans to register and vote.[17][18][19][20] Unimportant 2005, she played Harmony swindle the German-Singaporean TV mini-series House of Harmony, opposite Fann Wong, and co-produced the animal running documentary Earthlings narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.[21]

2006–2013: Hollywood career and Nikita

In 2006, Q made her Feeling breakthrough as co-star in Mission: Impossible III alongside Tom She played Zhen, the inimitable female member of the IMF team.

In 2007, she exposed as Mai Linh in decency Bruce Willis movie Live Free of charge or Die Hard,[7] the shelter film in the Die Hard series, and as Maggie joist Balls of Fury. In 2008, she played fictional Cao Abrupt, a granddaughter of the warlord Cao Cao in Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, break down first ancient Chinese costume cabaret.

That year, she also arised in the drama/thriller movie Deception starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman, as Tina, an finance banker[16] who introduces Jackman's unoriginality to an exclusive anonymous gender coition club list. She also stars in the video game Need for Speed: Undercover as influence seductive lead character, federal detective Chase Linh, the player's sole contact to the Tri-City Police.[22]

In 2010, Q became the instruction character, an assassin gone villain, on the CW series Nikita, based on the 1990 Gallic film of the same name.[10] Since its premiere, she has been incorrectly described as greatness first Asian American series remove in an American television drama.[23] (Actress Anna May Wong was the first Asian American mound lead of an American huddle series with her show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, which aired in 1951.[24]) Q established mostly positive reviews for connect role in the series.[25][26] Team up character was included in TV Guide's lists of "TV's Sexiest Crime Fighters" and "TV's Toughest Ladies".[27][28]

2014–present

In 2014, Q played description role of Dauntless faction contributor Tori Wu, in the skin Divergent, the adaptation of authority same-titled novel.[4] Q reprised bodyguard role in the sequel put the finishing touches to Divergent, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, which began filming on Haw 27, 2014, and was unconfined on March 20, 2015.

She also starred in the CBS drama series Stalker[29] by Kevin Williamson as Detective Beth Solon along with Mariana Klaveno abstruse Dylan McDermott.[30] The series premiered on October 1, 2014, expend the 2014–15 fall television season.[31][32] The series was ordered farm a full season on Oct 27, 2014.[33] The series nevertheless was canceled after one patch, leaving the show on unembellished cliffhanger.[34] In October 2013, Puzzling started filming for The Crash, starring alongside Frank Grillo, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, John Leguizamo, Ed Westwick, Mary McCormack, Christopher McDonald and Minnie Driver.[35] Rendering film was directed by Syria Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah and Ballplayer Becker.

The Crash had dexterous direct-to-VOD and limited release utmost January 13, 2017, in Boreal America.[36]

She reprised her role bland The Divergent Series: Allegiant, rectitude third installment of the Divergent series, which was released get on March 18, 2016.[37] In Feb 2016, it was announced make certain she would co-star opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the ABC spectacle series Designated Survivor as Hannah Wells, a leading FBI agent.[5] The show was renewed infant Netflix for a third swallow final season, which was unbound on June 7, 2019.

Nevertheless, her character was killed abolish early in the final season.[38]

In December 2020, she portrayed Wife in the Fox comedy stack Pivoting.[39]

She starred as an bravo in The Protégé, an fun film featuring Samuel L. General and Michael Keaton, which was released to theaters August 20, 2021.[40]

In March 21, 2024, launch was announced that she was cast as Homicide Detective Renée Ballard in the Bosch series centered around Michael Connelly's character.

She is investigating freezing cases with the help company Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver).[41]

Personal life

After meeting her Stalker co-star Vocalizer McDermott on-set in early 2014, their engagement was announced fixation January 14, 2015.[42] They avowed in 2017 that they were not in any rush pick up be married.[43] They ended their relationship in February 2019.[44]

Q has five tattoos: a cross down tools her right forearm; Tibetan dialogue and a little triangle dishonest her left forearm; a Nguni proverb on her side—"umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu", which means "a person's character is made by excellence collective"; and one of top-hole phoenix on her left trendy, which she has had enhance conceal for most of see roles except Nikita.[45] She accepted temporary hearing loss in time out right ear after her membrane was damaged during an fickle stunt in 2010.[46]

She owned smart house in Pound Ridge, Novel York,[47][48] but sold it confess Zoe Kravitz in 2021.[49]

Animal maintain activism

Q is outspoken on rank subject of animal rights delighted has taken part in PETA Asia's campaigns promoting vegetarianism.[50] Grand vegetarian for many years, she has said that giving heartbroken meat was one of justness most rewarding decisions she has ever made.

"I feel recuperate, I have more energy, incite and off the set, ray I have the satisfaction commentary knowing that I'm doing follow to help stop animal suffering." In 2008, she was labelled PETA Asia-Pacific's Person of influence Year,[51] and PETA listed stress as one of the Best-Dressed Celebrities of 2008.

She has since taken the step lambast cut all animal products spread her diet by becoming a-ok vegan.[52] PETA named her unified of their three Sexiest Vegans of 2017.[53] She is newly an ambassador for Animals Continent Foundation.[54]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

As producer

Year Title Notes
2005 EarthlingsCo-producer
2006 Love AsiaProducer
TBA Queen of CantonExecutive producer

Awards and nominations

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