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In 2010, Q became the lead character, an assassin gone rogue, on the CW series Nikita, based on the 1990 French film of the same name. Q during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2013
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In 2005, she played Harmony in the German-Singaporean TV mini-series House of Harmony, opposite Fann Wong, and co-produced the animal treatment documentary Earthlings narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. In 2004 she co-starred with Kelly Hu, Russell Wong and other Asian-American actors in a 30-second PSA produced by Mark Allen for CAUSE USA (Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment), The Least Likely, encouraging Asian and Pacific Islander Americans to register and vote.
In 2002, she starred as martial artist assassin Charlene Ching in the action film Naked Weapon. Her appearance in Gen-Y Cops impressed Chan so much that he cast her in his films Manhattan Midnight and Rush Hour 2. In 2000, she made her film debut as Anna in the horror film Model from Hell, and went on to star as FBI agent Jane Quigley in the action thriller Gen-Y Cops that year. In 1998, she started her acting career in the TV drama House of the Dragon, which was a huge hit in Asia. She later said, "I had never done a day of martial arts in my life when I started in the business. His intensive training taught her the importance of professionalism and always doing her own stunts. had no money." But in Hong Kong she became a protege of Jackie Chan, who saw in her a potential action star. I mean, I literally did the same thing that my mother did when she left Vietnam. She has said it was not easy for her: "I had twenty bucks in my pocket. She tried again in Hong Kong, where she began using the stage name Maggie Q because the locals could not pronounce Quigley properly. Q at the world premiere of The Warrior and the Wolf in 2009 1996–2005: Modeling and Hong Kong films Īt a friend's suggestion, Q began modeling in Tokyo, Japan at the age of 17, before making an unsuccessful move to Taipei, Taiwan. She left Hawaii at the end of one school year in hopes of earning enough money to resume at the beginning of the next one. She won an athletics scholarship to a private university and intended to study veterinary science however, her family was unable to assist her financially.
She won the title of "Best Body" senior year, and graduated in 1997. She then attended Mililani High School, where she was on the cross country, track and field, and swim teams. She attended Mililani Waena Elementary School and Wheeler Intermediate School. She has four siblings, was raised Catholic and attends church. Her parents met while her father was stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Her father is of Irish and Polish descent and her mother is a Vietnamese immigrant. Q was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Subsequent credits include “Barnaby Jones,” “The Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island.” She joined the cast of the soap “General Hospital” for a year in 1988.Ĭristal is survived by sons Jordan Wexler, Gregory Wexler, and two grandchildren. Her highest-profile role arrived in 1967 with the hour-long Western “The High Chaparral,” a series that ran for four seasons and starred, in addition to Erickson and Cristal, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow and Mark Slade. For her performance in Blake Edwards’ 1958 comedy “The Perfect Furlough,” she shared a New Star of the Year Golden Globe Award with Tina Louise and Susan Kohner. Her death was reported to the New York Times by son Jordan Wexler.Ĭristal had built a career as an actress during the 1950s in Mexico’s film industry when she was cast in an English-speaking role in 1956’s “Comanche,” directed by George Sherman and starring Dana Andrews.įilm and TV credits throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s included roles in “Rawhide,” “Seven Sins,” “The Alamo,” “The Tab Hunter Show” and “Iron Horse,” among others. Linda Cristal, the Argentine-born actress who played Victoria Cannon, wife of Leif Erickson’s stoic, heroic rancher Big John Cannon on NBC’s popular 1967-71 Western “The High Chaparral,” died in her sleep at her Beverly Hills home Saturday. James Henerson Dies: 'I Dream Of Jeannie', 'Bewitched', 'Flying Nun' Writer Was 84 Stuart Cornfeld Dies: Producer For 'Zoolander' And "Tropic Thunder' Was 67 Charles Webb Dies: Author Of 'The Graduate' Novel Was 81
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