Maggie Q spent her childhood in Hawaii in a mixed-heritage family, the daughter of a Polish-Irish American father who served in the U.S. military and a Vietnamese mother. After finishing high school, she left for Asia at seventeen to pursue modeling, working in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo. Exposure to the region's film industries drew her toward acting, and she began taking small roles in Hong Kong productions.
Her early credits included the action film Gen-X Cops (1999), and she drew wider attention in the 2002 martial-arts thriller Naked Weapon, which cast her as an action lead. More Hong Kong and international roles followed, including a part in Around the World in 80 Days (2004).
Her Hollywood breakthrough came as the assassin Zhen in Mission: Impossible III (2006), and she followed it with a turn opposite Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard (2007). She also appeared in the historical epic Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon (2008) and the supernatural thriller Priest (2011).
From 2010 to 2013 she starred as the title character in the CW espionage series Nikita, a role that made her widely known in the United States and demonstrated her as both an action performer and a dramatic lead. She played Tori Wu in the Divergent film series (2014 - 2016), appeared in the thriller series Stalker, and portrayed FBI agent Hannah Wells in the political drama Designated Survivor (2016 - 2019). In 2021 she headlined the action thriller The Protégé alongside Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson.
Off screen, Maggie Q is a longtime vegan and an advocate for animal rights and environmental causes, working with organizations such as PETA. She was engaged to actor Dylan McDermott in the mid-2010s before the relationship ended.
Maggie Q was born on May 22, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), May 22, 1979 corresponds to the Ten of Clubs, making the Ten of Clubs her Birth Card.
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