{"id":244,"date":"2014-07-07T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/green-lantern-premium\/?p=204"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:00:13","slug":"maggie-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/maggie-q\/","title":{"rendered":"Seductive lead character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: black\"><span id=\"Early_life\" class=\"mw-headline\">Early life<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Quigley was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0Her father is of\u00a0Irish\u00a0and\u00a0Polish\u00a0descent\u00a0and her mother is a\u00a0Vietnamese\u00a0immigrant.\u00a0Her parents met while her father was stationed in\u00a0Vietnam\u00a0during the\u00a0Vietnam War.\u00a0Q grew up with four siblings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Q attended Mililani Waena Elementary School and Wheeler Intermediate School. She then attended\u00a0Mililani High School, where she was on the cross country, track and field, and swim teams. She won the title of &#8220;Best Body&#8221; senior year, and graduated from Mililani High School in 1997.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: black\"><span id=\"Career\" class=\"mw-headline\">Career<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"color: black\"><span id=\"1996.E2.80.9397:_Modeling\" class=\"mw-headline\">1996\u201397: Modeling<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>At the suggestion of a friend, Q began modeling in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080\" title=\"Tokyo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokyo\">Tokyo<\/a>\u00a0at the age of 17, before making an unsuccessful move to\u00a0Taipei, and finally trying in\u00a0Hong Kong.\u00a0She has said it was not easy for her: &#8220;I had twenty bucks in my pocket. I mean, I literally did the same thing that my mother did when she left Vietnam&#8230; didn&#8217;t speak the language&#8230; had no money.<sup id=\"cite_ref-NYMag_10-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: black\"><span id=\"1998.E2.80.932009:_Start_of_acting_career\" class=\"mw-headline\">1998\u20132009: Start of acting career<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In 1998,\u00a0she started her acting career in the TV drama\u00a0<i>House of the Dragon<\/i>, which was a huge hit in Asia. In 2000, Q made her film debut as Anna in the horror film\u00a0<i>Model from Hell<\/i>, and went on to star as an FBI agent Jane Quigley in the action thriller\u00a0<i>Gen-Y Cops<\/i>the same year. Her appearance in\u00a0<i>Gen-Y Cops<\/i>\u00a0impressed\u00a0Jackie Chan\u00a0so much that she was cast in\u00a0<i>Manhattan Midnight<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Rush Hour 2<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Q played fictional Cao Ying, a granddaughter of the warlord\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0b0080\" title=\"Cao Cao\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cao_Cao\">Cao Cao<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<i>Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon<\/i>, her first ancient Chinese costume performance. That same year, she also appeared in the drama\/thriller movie\u00a0<i>Deception<\/i>\u00a0starring\u00a0Ewan McGregor\u00a0and\u00a0Hugh Jackman, as Tina, an investment banker<sup id=\"cite_ref-DeceptionLATimes_13-1\" class=\"reference\"><a style=\"color: #0b0080\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maggie_Q#cite_note-DeceptionLATimes-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0who introduced Jackman&#8217;s character to an exclusive anonymous sex club list.<\/p>\n<p>Q also stars in the video game\u00a0<i>Need for Speed: Undercover<\/i>\u00a0as the seductive lead character, federal agent Chase Linh, who is the player&#8217;s only contact to the Tri-City Police.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: black\"><span id=\"2010.E2.80.93present:_Nikita.2C_Divergent_and_Stalker\" class=\"mw-headline\">2010\u2013present:\u00a0<i>Nikita<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Divergent<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Stalker<\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">\n<div class=\"magnify\">Maggie Q at Comic-Con 2013.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2010, she became the lead character, an assassin gone rogue, on the new\u00a0CW\u00a0series,\u00a0<i>Nikita<\/i>, a revamp of the movie\/TV title.<sup id=\"cite_ref-NYMag_10-3\" class=\"reference\"><a style=\"color: #0b0080\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maggie_Q#cite_note-NYMag-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Since the premiere of Nikita, Q has been incorrectly stated as the first Asian American series lead in an American television drama;\u00a0this is not true as it was actually the actress\u00a0Anna May Wong\u00a0who was the first\u00a0Asian American\u00a0series lead of an American television series with her show\u00a0<i>The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong<\/i>\u00a0which aired back in 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,29,30,31,32],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography","tag-biography","tag-denise","tag-maggie-q","tag-margaret","tag-quigley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.weblizar.com\/enigma-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}