Place of birth Jackson Heights, New York, USA
Real name Lucy Alexis Liu
Education: High school at Stuyvesant H.S.
New York University (dropped out within a year)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbour (a degree in Asian languages and culture)

Lucy Alexis Liu is an early thirties Chinese beauty and was born and raised in the Italian neighbourhood of Queens, New York. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and her birthdate is December 2nd, 1968.

She couldn't help but feel culturally alienated. "You go through a period when you don't like being Asian; you want to be 'American'," she says. "As I got older I wanted to accept myself.", say Liu
Lucy Liu finished high school in 1986 at Stuyvesant H.S. and went to New York University for one year. Lucy considered it a dark and sarcastic place. She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a degree in Asian languages and cultures while also studying acting, dance and voice. During her senior year, she auditioned for a production of Andre Gregory's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" on a whim, hoping to land a supporting role. Instead, she was cast as the lead and a career was born.
Lucy is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and practices Indonesian martial arts, including Kali-Eskrima-silat, which is a crude form of knife and stick fighting [totally inferior to Kwok Wing Chun :) Sorry, I have to defend my style and clan :) It's a joke people]. Liu's theatre credits include "Numb," "Redwood Curtain" and "M.Butterfly." She is also a membe of the Met Theatre Development Ensemble.
In addition to acting, Liu is a gifted artist. Her work first appeared at the Cast Iron Gallery in SoHo in 1993. She then received an art grant to study in China. Her exhibit of mixed-media photography -- pictures laid in the center of an original frame and intermixed with ceramics, paints, wood collages and papers -- chronicled her experiences there and debuted at a Venice, CA gallery in 1997.
She's said to be fearless, for one thing. Liu's a rock climber, a skier, and a horseback rider. Even after a bad bike accident this year and a recent fall off a horse ("The horse was going one way and I was going the other"), Liu's friends still had to talk her out of buying a motorcycle and taking up snowboarding. Liu's also a photographer and an artist. And a serious accordion player. She and "The Bak Gwi Plunderer" Greg Germann were delighted to discover that they share the same teacher; now they drag their accordions to work and jam between scenes. "I want to embrace life as long as I have it. I don't know how long I'll be here," Liu says. "I always thought I was going to go young. I don't know why."
Myself hailing from Vancouver Canada, I am definitely no stranger to gorgeous Chinese women. But gazing for the first time at Lucy Alexis Liu, it was clear to me that she was THE most beautiful woman to ever grace a movie or television screen.
Lucy's breakthrough role come on September 21st 1998 on Fox's Ally McBeal in the episode "They Eat Horses Don't They". She portrayed Ling Woo, an icy, assertive plant manager (and ex-lawyer) suing a shock jock radio host for sexual harassment. She instantly upstaged Callista Flockhart as the most compelling character on the series with her intense bitchy personality and stunning Asian beauty.
The episode which made Lucy famous was "It's My Party" on November 19th 1998 when she executed the most seductive kiss television had ever seen on Greg Germann. Couples across North America began to imitate but couldn't replicate this piece of television history. Testosterone levels in horny Chinese university students like myself skyrocketed to an all time high. Needless to say, Fox signed her as a regular cast member after this.

Playboy's 20 Questions with Lucy Liu
QUESTION No. 1: Ling Woo, the character you play on "Ally McBeal", has beenresponsible for some innovative TV moments, such as licking Richard Fish's lips. For what other breakthroughs do you want to be responsible?
ANSWER: Ling has done a lot of stuff. She's licked lips, she's sucked fingers and she's given hair jobs. I don't know how David Kelley comes up with these things. They are now the mark of Ling. She definitely has a lot of other things up her sleeve. She's trying to show Fish a little more about foreplay. I think there's also a power struggle between Ling and Fish: he wants to have intercourse and she doesn't want to -- to the extent that she's trying to prove a point. She has to stand strong. She might have a lot of other things in store before she gives it up to him. It makes it a little more interesting. I think the tension will build -- at least for him.
QUESTION No. 2: You're a martial artist, fine artist, accordion player,rock climber. What do you have against being lazy?
ANSWER: Sometimes I'm lazy, but I always have something creative I want to do or work on. It's nice to lounge around the house. But if you're an artist, you've got to have some fucking mnoey. You work at McDonald's if you have to. You got to earn some money so you have confidence when you walk into a room and present yourself. Success is definitely a point of view, but success to me is just like, "Hey, guess what? I'm paying my own rent. I went out and bought this food." I used to get up at three o'clock or four o'clock in the morning to make omelettes for people just so I could have some money. Believe me, I didn't want to do that. It wasn't a great job, but I did it. I'm a firm believer in not living off somebody else. I'm really independent that way, and I hope I remain that way. Get off your ass is what I would say.
QUESTION No. 3: What's the most enduring myth about Asian women?
ANSWER: That our vaginas are slit a different way. That's the major one. Mine is, however, and I'm proud of it. It's a nice discovery, but now that you're printing it, nobody will be curious anymore.
QUESTION No. 4: Defend that most maligned instrument -- the accordion.
ANSWER: Defend it? There's nothing to defend! It's an instrument that breathes with you. You control the sound, you create the energy, you determine how loud it is. The emotional backing of the instrument is something you create also, depending on how much you pull and push and how much you breathe with it. Somebody can play one song completely flat, and someone else can play it with so much emotion you're on the verge of tears. It's something you create. It's like a part of you -- as opposed to a guitar or a flute. Go blow on that!
QUESTION No. 5: Rock climbing. You climb like crazy, then you come down. Are we missing something?
ANSWER: I understand why people do extreme sports: they give you a feeling you can't match. It's close to death. It's so dangerous that you get a certain high from it. Once you get that high, there's nothing you can replace it with. I lived in New York all my life and was never athletic.I came out here and I started doing things I'd never done before, like hiking and roller-skating. Women are better climbers than men, generally, because men usually try to muscle their way up with their arms. By the time they're a quarter of the way up they ar eexhausted and they've blown themselves out. Women usually have stronger legs. It's called the four points -- if your four points are even, then your energy is dispersed in a good way. It's a Zen way of working out.
QUESTION No. 6: How good can a non-Asian get with chopsticks? Any tips?
ANSWER: Pretty good. There's a right way to use them and I don't use them properly. I have friends who are Canadian and Caucasian and American who use chopsticks much better than I do. I don't use them properly, but I get the food and that's the most important thing.
QUESTION No. 7: You're an artist. Do you understand the reviews in _Artforum_?
ANSWER: They reviewed a piece I saw in New York titled _White on White_. It was white canvas with white paint on it. They went into this whole breakdown of the idea behind it. After a while, you start thinking, "Wow, it was a really good idea for this person to paint white on white. It's revolutionary." In reality, it was white-on-white -- anyone could have done it. I think art is subjective. I applied for an NEA grant once. I submitted slides of my work along with an impassioned essay. They ended up giving the grant to somebody who was handing out dollar bills in Mexico. It was about the energy of giving the money out. I was really pissed off. I don't understand that or things that are really abstract. I'm a visual person. I understand that modern art is different. I can appreciate it to a certain degree, but it kind of pisses me off.
QUESTION No. 8: In "Payback", did Mel Gibson come quitely or did you have to rough him up a bit?
ANSWER: Roughing up is always a good thing, never forget that. Everybody likes to be roughed up. And I don't think any man comes quietly. Mel is a great guy.
QUESTION No. 9: Are we condemned to choose one from column A and one from column B, or are we free to choose whatever we want from all over the menu?
ANSWER: In my life, I choose from every column. People grow and change. You learn about stuff, you get more experienced, you learn you were ignorant before. You can't expect to know everything. I wasn't allowed to watch "Three's Company" when I was growing up because it was about two women and a guy living together. We always sneaked in and watched it even though we weren't supposed to. When you start categorizing things, that's when people go crazy. You want column B because you're in column A. You want anything you don't have. But you shouldn't deny yourself anything.
QUESTION No. 10: Do you get off on the idea of having a love slave?
ANSWER: I get so off on it. It's great. I love it because he bows down to me and it's such a feeling of power. His weakness is something that's just delicious. Weakness can be delicious, but only when ["Ally McBeal" co-star] Greg Germann delivers it. Sometimes it's just like, "Good Lord, get the spatula, get the jellyfish off me." But when Greg does it, it's like quivering. You just want to slap him, and when you do, he enjoys it. He eats it up. The more he enjoys it, the more you enjoy it. So we work off each other's energy. Plus, he's so powerful in his everday life as a lawyer and a money fiend that it's nice to see him get down and quiver.
QUESTION No. 11: Is this real acting for you, or do you see where it comes from?
ANSWER: It's hard for me. I was so terrified the day I had to lick Fish's finger, because it was so phallic. I was on the verge of tears because it was like I was selling my soul on national television -- licking this guy's cock, practically. If anything, it would get me a second job at the Pink Pussycat Theater. I was so terrified, and then I just did it. I wasn't sure how to feel about it. Then I had to do it again a few episodes later and it was easier. I guess it was easier because I'm accepting myself more as a woman people are attracted to. I'm seeing that I can be a leading lady doing these things.
QUESTION No. 12: If you thought Calista Flockhart were too thin, you'd tell her, right?
ANSWER: No, I wouldn't. I'm just not close enough to her to tell her something like that. I think she looks great. She is in great shape. If people thought I were too heavy, I'm not sure I'd want them to tell me. It's a personal issue.
QUESTION No. 13: Your character, Ling, describes men as horny toads. Is that so wrong?
ANSWER: It's not so much that it's wrong, because women are horny toads too a lot of the time. Sometimes women just want to go out and screw and leave in the morning just like some guys do. I just happen to think that, as a whole, women are a lot more emotional and need a certain amount of security that men don't always have the ability to offer. It's a social issue, it's a gender issue, and it's something that gets in the way. But it's not particularly bad.
QUESTION No. 14: How can you avoid being a moron in love?
ANSWER: Can't. You have to be a moron in love. That's the fucked-up thing about love. I've done so many stupid things. When I'm really into something I'm in it all the way. I'll do almost anything without thinking about it until the relationship is over. Then I just think about what a fucking idiot I was. You give yourself 100 percent to the relationship or to the person and you can't think straight. Your mind is somewhere else. In fact, Hallmark should make a Valentine's Day card that says, "Thank you for being such a moron." Maybe I'll do it if this job doesn't work out.
QUESTION No. 15: What are the danger signs that a relationship is over the top?
ANSWER: When there's a lot of unnecessary drama in the relationship. When you walk in the door and he's got his penis hanging out of his pants. Normal stuff. He has gone and got a scrotum tuck -- that's when you know something's gone wrong. You know, those telltale everyday things.
QUESTION No. 16: Asian sex secrets -- myth, hype, or just plain good sense?
ANSWER: The mystique should live on, baby. Everyone thinks what they do is really mysterious and wonderful and unique and that they're the best lover in the world. Everyone should have that mentality, or they should try to improve on it. The Asian mystique is that you don't talk and you look really small. That's the attraction. Keep your mouth shut and turn over! I don't know what the Asian sex secrets are -- if somebody has them, let me know.
QUESTION No. 17: Can you envision an adult film based on "The Karate Kid"?
ANSWER: Yeah, "Whacks On, Whacks Off." Enough said. No one's ever forgotten that phrase. There have been so many funny spoofs on films. I get a kick out of them, though I don't know if I would ever actually want to go to the theater to see them.
QUESTION No. 18: What is the best message you've received in a fortune cookie?
ANSWER: [Pulling them out of her wallet] "Be assertive and you will win." "You will be unusually successful in business." "Get away from home for a while to restore your energies." That's the best one. "Your talents are in fine shape, utilize them to their fullest."
QUESTION No. 19: Which of men's many shortcomings should they get over?
ANSWER: If you're working and they're not. If you have money and they don't have any, it's not a big deal. If he has a small penis, I don't give a shit. I don't want to hear about it. I don't want him constantly talking about it. It's so ridiculous, so silly. The more he emphasizes it, the more I'm going to focus on it. Shut up! I'm no expert on men's shortcomings, but I think there's a certain amount of ego involved with most men -- that's what makes men men. I love men. They are extremely odd animals of prey. That's what makes them so wonderful. If anything, men are mysterious. If you try to break everything down and analyze it, you're going to have too much information on your hands. You're not going to know what to do with it. You have to experience it as it is. If it doesn't work out, move on to the next one.
QUESTION No. 20: What would you order in a bar to signal sexual readiness?
ANSWER: Listen, honey, if I order anything in a bar, I'm ready. I'm not aheavy drinker. If I drink at all, I start getting loose and feeling pretty crazy. I think alcohol makes you feel immortal, like you can jump off a building or leap in front of a car. I love drinking sake, and sometimes I'll have an Absolut and cranberry with a lime or something like that. But I have to do it with somebody I'm really comfortable with and who I can eliminate the next day. Who won't be missed? I can put him out of his misery.
Here are some excerpts from the Details(tm) Magazine interview of Lucy Liu for the month of February 1999. The article is entitled "Juicy: Lucy Liu is TV's Hottest Ice Queen". The interview was conducted by David A. Keeps who wears a measly 9.5 D size shoe. The photo on my index page was taken by Antoine Verglas. Styling was done by Tanya Gill, hair by David Fields, and makeup by Sheree Morgan.
Lucy commenting on horny toad men
Definitely. I think any man will admit that they see a woman physically first, and then they imagine what she's going to be like in bed. And I've asked tons of people, cuz I don't want to believe it myself, but it's actually quite true.
Lucy talking about her first kiss
I was fifteen or sixteen. A total wallflower. I had heard about French kissing and thought it was the most disgusting thing in the whole world. There was only one guy interested in me, and one day he kissed me and it freaked me out so much I went running over to my friend's house, so repulsed by it and yet excited because I'd never been kissed by a man before.
Lucy's college years
I went to NYU for a year and I was so unhappy. Everything was dark and sarcastic. I was living the whole alternalife, going to Julian's Pool Hall on Fourteenth Street, hanging out. So I went to University of Michigan. The first day I got there I put these beautiful pictures of naked woman on the wall and my roommates comes in and I say, "I know this maybe looks like I'm a lesbian or sompin', but I'm not.
Lucy on women cumming on to her. (excuse the pun)
Oh yeah, it can be pretty sexy. I mean, c'mon- everyone is sorta bisexual. It's not a big deal. I've thought about it, when relationships don't work out with guys and you think "God, this woman friend is so wonderful. It would be so much easier." But really it's going to be the same damn problems.
Leather
I like to wear leather. (points to boots) These can actually kill someone.
Lucy commenting on what would make her run screaming out of man's bed room
Anything indicating an Asian fetish (hehehehe...nuff said). I've seen guys who had a shoji screen and the whole fucking fan over the bed. That would make me run screaming. And then I'd probably come back and burn his house down.
Lucy on marriage
I'm extremely independent. It's not in my plan to be married. I can't even live with anybody.
Lucy on love and sex
I don't throw myself around; I don't have any skeletons in that sense. It's kind of sad because it gets lonely, but I have too much ijust do it, and that pisses me off sometimes. Sometimes I'd like to be as open as a butterfly.

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