Maggie Quigley

Maggie Quigley

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Birth name: Margaret Denise Quigley
Date of birth: 22 May 1979
Place of birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Nickname: Maggie Q
Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) 

Famous Quote: “I’m just totally into being strong. There’s something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog’s bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There’s comfort in that. Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights, gee, what a wonder, but also I have more to offer than that.” 

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Maggie Quigley
Echelon Talent Management, Inc.
3674 Oxford Street
Vancouver, BC V5K 1P3, Canada  

Biography:

 Maggie Q, born Margaret Denise Quigley (born May 22, 1979), is an American actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong. A former top model and established film actress in Hong Kong and across Asia, Maggie Q made her U.S. debut in “Mission: Impossible III.”. She quickly rose to the status of supermodel in many parts of Asia and appeared on more than 100 magazine covers including various Asian editions of Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Elle.

Maggie Q was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to an American father of Polish, French Canadian and Irish descent, and a Vietnamese mother. Her parents met while her father was stationed in Vietnam. Maggie is the youngest of five children. She has two sisters and two half-siblings from her mother’s previous marriage in Vietnam. After graduating from Mililani High School she traveled to Japan and Hong Kong to earn money as a fashion model. In 1998 she got her first role in a Chinese-language TV series.

She began acting in Hong Kong and elsewhere in East Asia. Because of her non-Chinese heritage, many of her Asian film appearances are in English or dubbed in the Chinese language. She has, however, stated that she took Mandarin and Cantonese lessons during her career in Asia and is able to speak both languages in varying degrees. Among her first appearances in film was the lead roles in the Hong Kong action thrillers Gen-Y Cops and Naked Weapon, in which she played the sexy but vulnerable martial artist assassin Charlene Ching. She has also played the titular role of Harmony in the German-Singapore telemovie collaboration Das Haus Der Harmonie, opposite leading Singaporean actress Fann Wong. Q began her acting career in the highly acclaimed Asian television drama “House of the Dragon,” which opened the door to feature films. 

She starred along side Paul Rudd in the movie “Gen-Y Cops” (2000), a film produced by Jackie Chan, who was so impressed by her acting in his movie, that he cast her in the award-winning film “Manhattan Midnight” (2001). In addition to starring in numerous Chinese films, including the popular “Naked Weapon” (2002), Q also starred in several European films such as Italy’s Rai Entertainment film “The Counting House” (2006) and the Germany/Singapore two-part television movie, “House of Harmony” (2005). After recovering from her first US press rounds for “MI:3,” Q will star opposite Dan Fogler, George Lopez and Christopher Walken in Spyglass Entertainment/Rogue Pictures’ “Balls of Fury” (lensed 2006), a comedy about an ex-ping pong champion who enters the secret world of ping pong to find the man who killed his father. 

In 2006 she starred alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. She played Zhen, the only female member of his IMF team. Maggie played Mai Linh, one of the computer-hacking extortionists in the 2007 Bruce Willis movie Live Free Or Die Hard, the fourth film in the Die Hard franchise. On August 29, 2007, Balls of Fury opened nationwide in the U.S., where Maggie portrayed the niece of table tennis guru Master Wong (James Hong).

Maggie Q has been in the past romantically linked to Hong Kong actor-singer Daniel Wu and Japanese footballer Hidetoshi Nakata. In January 2008, her fellow actor and good friend Edison Chen was caught in a sex scandal. The scandal became a raging topic as it involved many high profile celebrities of Hong Kong entertainment, whom Chen was involved with in the past.

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