Lucy Liu Trivia
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Birth name: Lucy Alexis Liu
Date of birth: 2 December 1968
Place of birth: Queens, New York, USA
Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
- Graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a degree in Asian languages and cultures.
- Graduated from Stuyvesant high school in 1986.
- Attended New York University for a year.
- Mother is a biochemist, father is a civil engineer and she has a brother and a sister.
- Grew up in the Jackson Heights section of Queens County, New York.
- Was the first Asian-American female to host “Saturday Night Live” (1975).
- She once worked as an aerobics instructor.
- She plays the accordion.
- She practices rock climbing, skiing, & horseback riding.
- Auditioned for a role in Shanghai Knights (2003), but lost out to Fann Wong.
- Is an initiated sister of Chi Omega Sorority
- Announced that she plans on marrying Zach Helm, her boyfriend of one year. [April 2004]
- Shares a birthday with Britney Spears
- Mentioned in Outkast’s hit “Hey Ya”.
- Good friends with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore since Charlie’s Angels (2000)
- One of the guests at Ashton Kutcher’s and Demi Moore’s wedding in 2005.
- In 2005, Liu was appointed a U.S. Fund for UNICEF Ambassador; in that capacity, she has traveled to Pakistan and Lesotho, among other countries.
- Early in 2006, Liu received an “Asian Excellence Award” for Visibility.
- She is also the first Asian American woman to host Saturday Night Live.
- In 2007, Empire magazine named her among the “100 Sexiest Movie Stars”.
- In 2008, after pitching an interest in being part of the hit new show Dirty Sexy Money, the producers immediately created a role for her as a series regular.
- March 2, 2010, Liu made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage playing Annette as part of the second replacement cast along side Jeff Daniels, Janet McTeer and Dylan Baker.
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