Maggie Q

Maggie Q was born on May 22, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an American actress and former fashion model.

Born to an American father and a Vietnamese mother, Maggie Denise Quigley was raised among the palm trees and golden sand of Honolulu, Hawaii. Her destiny, however, awaited beyond her picturesque island home, and at the age of 18 she moved to Hong Kong in order to pursue a career in modeling.

Maggie Q's unique look made her a popular attraction and before long she was gracing the covers of major publications such as Cosmopolitan, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, FHM, and Marie Claire. Her burgeoning supermodel status prompted a plethora of movie offers and Maggie finally made her big-screen debut in 1999's The Legendary Tai Fei. There was just one problem: She didn't actually speak Cantonese, meaning Maggie had to learn all of her lines phonetically.

Additional roles -- and plenty of voice coaching -- followed in 2000 with Model From Hell and the immensely popular Gen-Y Cops, an action film produced by Jackie Chan. Chan was so impressed with Maggie's acting that he had her cast in Manhattan Midnight, starring Richard Grieco, and included her in his own film, Rush Hour 2. She teamed up with Chan again in 2004 for Around the World in 80 Days and starred opposite Tom Cruise in the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible III.

She topped that again in 2007 with her role in the latest Die Hard installment with Bruce Willis - Live Free or Die Hard where she played a world-class hacker at odds with a villain who tries to terrorize America.