Biography
Lucy Alexis Liu (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress. Her accolades include winning a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Seoul International Drama Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award. Liu has starred as Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), Alex Munday in two Charlie's Angels films (2000 and 2003) and Joan Watson in the crime-drama series Elementary (2012–2019). Her film work includes starring in Payback...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rosemead
2025
as Irene
Based on a true story that took place in the San Gabriel Valley, the film follows an immigrant mother with terminal cancer who takes desperate measure...

Rosemead
2025
Producer
Based on a true story that took place in the San Gabriel Valley, the film follows an immigrant mother with terminal cancer who takes desperate measure...

Old Guy
2024
as Anata
Stuck at a dead end but vying for the love of spunky club manager Anata, aging contract killer Danny Dolinski is thrilled when The Company pulls him b...

Presence
2024
as Rebekah
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in th...

Red One
2024
as Zoe
After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-t...

The Tiger's Apprentice
2024
as Nua Kua / Cynthia (voice)
After the death of his grandmother, Tom Lee discovers he is part of a long lineage of magical protectors known as the Guardians. With guidance from a ...

Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2023
as Kalypso
Billy Batson and his foster siblings, who transform into superheroes by saying "Shazam!", are forced to get back into action and fight the Daughters o...

Strange World
2022
as Callisto Mal (voice)
A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences ...

If You Have
2022
Executive Producer
Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot brings the inspiring untold story of UNICEF to life through first-person interviews and UNICEF’s never-before-se...

Death to 2021
2021
as Snook Austin
This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer...

DC Fandome 2021
2021
A global live online event uniting DC Comics creations and adaptations with fans around the globe.

Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality
2021
Executive Producer
A provocative feature doc about America's affordable housing crisis told through the prism of iconic Venice CA 90291's struggle with the growing incom...

Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
2021
as Self - Guest
For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and explained diversity, equity, and inclusion around the globe by using the universal tools...

Stage Mother
2020
as Sienna
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

QT8: The First Eight
2019
as Self
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...

Set It Up
2018
as Kirsten Stevens
Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

Future World
2018
as The Queen
A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.

Michael Jackson's Halloween
2017
as Conformity (voice)
The one-hour animated special, packed with the vocal talents of some of your favorite CBS stars and the King of Pop's most memorable hits, follows Vin...

Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
as Viper (voice)
While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
2016
as Viper (voice)
As Po looks for his lost action figures, the story of how the panda inadvertently helped create the Furious Five is told.

East of Main Street: Taking the Lead
2015
as Self
The acclaimed documentary series East of Main Street returns with a celebration of Asian Americans working in the film and television industries.

Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
2014
as Silvermist (voice)
An ancient myth of a massive creature sparks the curiosity of Tinker Bell and her good friend Fawn, an animal fairy who’s not afraid to break the rule...

Meena
2014
Director
Meena is a documentary film about sex trafficking in India based on a true story.

Kung Fu Panda | Legends of Awesomeness: The Midnight Stranger Vol.4
2014
as Viper (voice)

Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy
2014
as Silvermist (voice)
Zarina, a smart and ambitious dust-keeper fairy who’s captivated by Blue Pixie Dust and its endless possibilities, flees Pixie Hollow and joins forces...

Pixie Hollow Bake Off
2013
as Silvermist (voice)
Tink challenges Gelata to see who can bake the best cake for the queen's party. Plus 10 Disney Fairies Mini-Shorts: - Just Desserts - If The Hue Fi...

Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
2013
as Viper (Voice)
Collection containing "Secrets Of The Scroll", "Secrets Of The Masters", and "Secrets Of The Furious Five".

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Good Croc, Bad Croc
2013
as Viper (voice)
Po gets suckered by Fung to break into a castle.

The Man with the Iron Fists
2012
as Madame Blossom
In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers.

Secret of the Wings
2012
as Silvermist (voice)
Tinkerbell wanders into the forbidden Winter woods and meets Periwinkle. Together they learn the secret of their wings and try to unite the warm fairi...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
as Rowena Adler
Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents no...

Pixie Hollow Games
2011
as Silvermist (voice)
Rosetta and new arrival Chloe band together to try to break the garden fairies' legendary losing streak in the Pixie Hollow Games, a sports spectacle ...

The Trouble With Bliss
2011
as Andrea
35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects, he...

Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
as Viper (voice)
Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms wit...

Detachment
2011
as Dr. Doris Parker
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Bar...

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011
as O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth)
An assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her veng...

Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010
as Viper (voice)
The Winter Feast is Po's favorite holiday. Every year he and his father hang decorations, cook together, and serve noodle soup to the villagers. But t...

Nomads
2010
as Susan
Susan is a filmmaker working on a documentary about subway suicides at Mexico City. Roberto is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who cleans windows i...

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
2010
as Silvermist (voice)
During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies, le...

Afro Samurai: Resurrection
2009
as Sio (voice)
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from ...

Redlight
2009
as Narrator
A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, RED...

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2009
as Silvermist (voice)
A blue harvest moon will rise, allowing the fairies to use a precious moonstone to restore the Pixie Dust Tree, the source of all their magic. But whe...

Little Spirit: Christmas in New York
2008
as Leo's Mother (voice)
When a friendly cabbie tells two young sisters the story of a boy named Leo who moved to Manhattan with his family, a magical adventure begins. While ...

Tinker Bell
2008
as Silvermist (voice)
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fair...

Kung Fu Panda
2008
as Viper (voice)
When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transform...

The Year of Getting to Know Us
2008
as Anne
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.

Watching the Detectives
2007
as Violet
Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he...

Rise: Blood Hunter
2007
as Sadie Blake
A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta against a grou...

Code Name: The Cleaner
2007
as Gina
Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he f...

Code Name: The Cleaner
2007
Executive Producer
Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he f...

Freedom's Fury
2006
Executive Producer
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were ...

Lucky Number Slevin
2006
as Lindsey
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get ...

Domino
2005
as Taryn Miles
The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

3 Needles
2005
as Jin Ping
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sa...

My Date with Drew
2005
as Self (uncredited)
Ever since the second grade when he first saw her in E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on Drew Barrymore. Now, 20 years late...

Mulan II
2004
as Mei (voice)
Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004
as O-Ren Ishii 'Cottonmouth'
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She v...

The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 1'
2003
as Self
The documentary of Kill Bill Vol. 1, and how it was made. This is a documentary found on the DVD of Kill Bill Vol. 1. It consists of interviews, behi...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003
as O-Ren Ishii
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003
as Alex Munday
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Progra...

Chicago
2002
as Kitty Baxter
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chic...

Cypher
2002
as Rita Foster
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-...

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
2002
as Agent Jane Sever
Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in o...

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
as Self
A benefit concert and telethon organized by George Clooney and broadcast uninterrupted and commercial-free by the four major television networks just ...

Hotel
2001
as Kawika
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

Charlie's Angels
2000
as Alex Munday
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back! When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plo...

Shanghai Noon
2000
as Princess Pei Pei
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her ...

Play It to the Bone
1999
as Lia
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unava...

Molly
1999
as Brenda
Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car acc...

Love Kills
1999
as Kashi
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
1999
as The Female's Asian Friend
David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as ...

Flypaper
1999
as Dot
Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. T...

True Crime
1999
as Toy Store Girl
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row ...

Payback
1999
as Pearl
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and lea...

Guy
1997
as Woman at Newstand
A filmmaker picks a "real" subject to shoot, and when she sees Guy on the street, she latches onto him. At first, Guy is enraged that someone is just ...

Riot
1997
as Tiffany
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined...

City of Industry
1997
as Cathi Rose
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.

Gridlock'd
1997
as Cee-cee
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha...

Jerry Maguire
1996
as Former girlfriend
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plu...

Bang
1995
as Hooker
A young woman in L.A. is having a bad day: she's evicted, an audition ends with a producer furious she won't trade sex for the part, and a policeman n...

Protozoa
1993
as Ari
Darren Aronofsky’s AFI short opens with angry slacker Dave sitting in a dreary, empty junkyard. Dave stares into space, sips beer, and beats the hell ...

Rhythm of Destiny
1992
as Donna
Two brothers Ah B and Dee live in two different worlds. Ah B decides to quit his smuggling business for a new life, but accidentally involves the inno...
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
N/A
The story of Ruth, one of the Non-People, human-looking beings designed and trained for the sole purpose of filling in a realistic world for a bland g...
The Last Weekend in May
N/A
as Leah
Paul and Leah, are caught in the throes of an extramarital affair. Knowing that the situation is untenable, they decide to rent a house and turn their...
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
N/A
Producer
The story of Ruth, one of the Non-People, human-looking beings designed and trained for the sole purpose of filling in a realistic world for a bland g...