American actress Lucy Alexis Liu was born in 1968. After a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, she had small roles in films and TV, marking her debut in The X-Files and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998-2002), and has also appeared in several Hollywood films including Payback (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Chicago (2002), Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), and Kung Fu Panda (2008). In 2012, Liu joined the cast of the TNT original series Southland.