A little about Maggie Q...

Maggie Q's birth name is Margaret Denise Quigley. She was born on May 22, 1979, which makes her now 31. Her father is Polish-Irish and her mother is Vietnamese. She was born & raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She began modeling at age 17 in Tokyo before making an unsucessful movie in Taipei. She soon moved to Hong Kong, where she was selected by Jackie Chan, because he saw a potential action star. "I had twenty bucks in my pocket. I mean, I literally did the same thing that my mother did when she left Vietnam... didn't speak the language... had no money." Maggie says why it wasn't very easy for her. Chan's intense training program taught her the importance of being professional and doing her own stunts. She now jokes about how when she started, she couldn't even touch her toes! She began her acting career in 1998 in a TV drama House of the Dragon. In 2000, Q made her film debut as Anna in horror film, Model from Hell, and went on to star as FBI agent Jane Quigley in the action thriller Gen-Y Cops the same year. Her appearance in Gen-Y Cops impressed Chan so much that she was cast in Manhattan Midnight and Rush Hour 2. She eventually even starred alongside Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible III! She is currently starring as Nikita, a rouge government assasin, in the hit CW show NIKITA, which just finished up it's first season. She also was in the new movie Priest as Priestess.