Biography
Lucy Lew (the full name of Lucy Alexis Lew) - Hollywood actress, fashion model, artist and producer. It has surprisingly attractive and aristocratic appearance, completely devoid of Asian stereotypes, it works daily for 14 hours.
Lucy was born on December 2, 1968 in New York in a poor family of Chinese immigrants, which left the native country to start a new life in prosperous America.
Lucy's mother, Cecilia Lew, specialty biochemistry from Beijing. Tom Luj's father is a builder from Shanghai with university education. Lucy is the youngest of 3 children. She has a senior brother John Lew and Sister Jenny Lew.
Updated desire to give a girl good ground for life in America Parents when the baby turned 5 years old, send the daughter to the most prestigious specialized school of New York Stuyvesant High School. In 1986, the girl successfully ends with school, participates in the cultural exchange program in Singapore and enters the New York private university.
Studying in a prestigious university discovers a sarcastic atmosphere, and a year later, Lucy is translated into Michigan University. After graduating from Michigan University with the academic degree of bachelor's skills in the qualification "Chinese language and culture", it additionally receives serious training in the field of dancing, scenic speech, visual art and acting skills.
In the last courses of Lucy training, the power in cinema is trying. She is filmed in the adventure film shop "Alice in Wonderland." As an Asia-American student, in Lucy's film elementary playing blue-eyed blonde Alice.
Inspired by experience and great success in the movie Lucy makes the decision to change the lifestyle and plunge into the world of a professional acting game. In the fall of 1990, the girl reports to parents, which intends to move to Los Angeles and become a professional actress.
Films
Arriving in Los Angeles, Lucy begins to develop an acting career. It works as a waitress in public catering sites and in parallel visits hundreds of casting auditions. The nationality and type of eastern girl do not allow her to quickly join the acting environment. The future star is offered only episodic roles and participation in television shows.
In 1991, the beginner actress could be seen in the Beverly Hills 90210 youth television series. Lui performed the role of Courtney.
After minor roles in movies and on television, in 1998, Lucy offered a role in the comedy drama "Ellie McBil", created by David E. Kelly. The role of vicious and uncompatible Ling was allowed Lucy to become one of the noticeable Hollywood actresses and get in 1999 "Emmy" for the best female role of the second plan.
In 1999, she repeatedly removed into the cinema, but mainly in secondary roles. Lucy depicts a high-class BDSM-prostitute named Pearl, associated with Asian mafia, in the thriller "Payback", plays the role of saleswomen toys in the militant "This Crime", is filmed in the Molly Cointers and "Marriage Games of the Earth Resistors", participates in Saga Bay in bone. "
2000 brought Lucy Lew more serious roles. She plays the stolen Princess Pei Peies in a comedy film with Jackie Chan "Shanghai Noon", starring in the cash thriller "Charlie Angels".
In the last Ribe Lucy performed the role of one of the "Angels". Two other agents were Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. Alex considered Beyonce, Lorin Hill, Aaliyah and Victoria Beckham. An interesting fact: Casting eventually passed the actress Tandi Newton, but later the actress refused the role, and the Third Angel became Lew.
It happened while working on a film and an unpleasant incident. Actor Bill Murray during filming brutally criticized Lucy game. She did not hurt and responded to the famous artist rude and obscene. As a result, the quarrel boiled up. Sometimes shooting stopped for a couple of days to give actors to cool.
In 2001, the girl is invited to become the official face of the cosmetic barrel (Revlon). Lew with joy takes this offer.
In 2002, she starred in an enchanting thriller "Ballistics: ex vs. Siver" with Antonio Banderas, the militant "Coder" with Jeremy Nortem, the musical "Chicago" with Richard Gyr.
2003 became especially saturated for the actress. At the beginning of June, the second part of the blockbuster "Angel Charlie - 2: only forward" was published. In the fall, the fourth film of the film director K. Tarantino "Kill Bill". In 2005, Lucy Lew starred in the Canadian trilogy "Three Needles" and a militant based on real events, "Domino".
In 2006, an actress comes out by the criminal horror "The lucky number of slave", in which it performs the main role, and Josh Hartnett, charismatic Bruce Willis and Oscarous Morgan Freeman, are partners of the artist. With her participation films "Hide it", "Watching detectives", "Vampire", "nicknamer".
An actress appears in the TV series "Dirty Wet Money", which tells the story of a rich family of Darling. Lucy performed the role of Nola Festo, with which one of the heirs of the clan - Jeremy Darling was blindfied.
In 2008, it participates in the voicing of Cung Fu Panda cartoon films and "Fairy", as well as in their continuations "Fairy - Magic Salvation" and "Fairy - Lost Treasure".
In 2011, two cash films will come out with the participation of the actress, including an atypical drama "Dechange Teacher", Merry Cinema "One day this pain will benefit you." The actress is removed in the detective television series "elementary", representing a new version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes these days. Lucy in the film playing Joan Watson, the assistant of the famous detective. Holmes on the screen embodied Popular actor Johnny Lee Miller.
In 2013, Lucy receives an invitation to become a member of A.M.P.S.
In 2016, Lucy again voiced the Master of Vijuku in the third part of the Kung Fu Panda cartoon.
Personal life
Journalists have repeatedly "issued" Lucy married a variety of men, seeing a girl on joint photos with them. She was attributed to the novel with the financade Noah Gottesman, then she allegedly met with actor George Clooney and director Zak Hellm. At the same time, Lucy itself claims that it was not matured for novels and creating a full-fledged family.
On August 27, 2015, she announced the birth of a son, whom a surrogate mother took place. Woman gave the child the name Rockwell Lloyd Lew.
After the birth of the baby, Lucy went into maternal worries and became less common to appear in secular events. But each star output becomes an event. After all, in his years the actress looks fresh and young, and journalists are often asked to share beauty secrets.
In 2016, the artist released its shoe line in collaboration with the Italian designer Bruno Muggle. In honor of this event, the woman gave an interview, where he told about the lifestyle and care for themselves.
Lucy regularly engages, Pilates, drinks a lot of water. At special diets, the actress is not sitting, she got used to little since childhood, because in the family there were problems with money. Therefore, Lucy prefers healthy food, Lew - Vegetarian. Woman's growth is 160 cm, weight - 53 kg. In conversations with journalists, the artist assures that he did not resort to the help of plastics.
In the appearance of the celebrity, one interesting nuance can be noticed. Lucy Lui suffers from amblyopia. This condition at which one eye is leading, and the other is relaxing and slightly mowing. The reason for this can be squint, genetic predisposition and the unequal size of the eyeballs. Such syndrome meets Ryan Gosling, Kate Middleton, Blake Lively and others, but it did not prevent them from achieving success.
Lucy is not married, lives with her son in New York, studies various religions: Buddhism, Taoism and Jewish mysticism. She declares that she believes in the things of spiritual origin associated with meditation and chanting. In his youth, she studied Chinese philosophy, so all the metaphysical believes today and fascinating.
In 1991, the actress suffered a mastectomy - a surgical operation to remove breast cancer. It was a very hard period in her life with a long reducing period.
Since 2004, it is a member of the Sino-American Organization Committee-100 (Committee of 100). The actress is an unshakable supporter of the equality of same-sex marriages.
Lucy greatly plays on the accordion, loves skiing and horses, enjoys the climbing and Filipino martial arts of Arnis, or Escrima, and Cali.
Thousands of fans in the social network "Instagram" are followed by life and career biography of the artist. Lucy regularly lays out personal and working photos to see the fans. An actress is still sharing his thoughts with readers in Twitter microblog.
Lucy Lew now
In July 2017, it became known that the artist will act as a director of one episode of the second season of the television series "Luke Kage". Lucy has already tried itself as a director in the projects "Elementary" and "Graceland".
In the spring of 2018, the actress appeared at the Obie Awards ceremony in New York in the image of the blonde. Lew for the first time in recent years made a cardinal change in its own appearance.
What is the cause of changes, Lucy has not yet reported. But the audience suggested that the case in the upcoming project. Recently, the artist was approved by one of the main roles in the Stage Mother's dramatic comedy, where, in addition to Lew, Jackie Weaver and Tey Diggs will appear. Who will play Lucy, while it is unknown. Today the film is in the pre-production stage. The premiere of the painting is scheduled for 2019.
In May 2018, the actress appeared as Queen in the fantastic picture of the World of Future. According to the plot, a young man living in a postpocalyptic world goes into a dangerous journey into the world of empty to find a medicine for a sick mother.
Squares Franco, Suckoo Waterhouse, Margarita Levieva and others became colleagues on Lucy.
In June 2018, the audience will see the artist in the role of Head-worker Kirsten in the Comedy "Store". In the plot, two assistants, in the images of which Zoe Doych and Pete Davidson reincarnated, decide the lights of their unborn bosses, so that those who have found love and stopped being laid at work and delay the assistants.
Filmography
- 1991 - "Beverly Hills 90210"
- 2000 - "Shanghai Noon"
- 2000 - "Charlie Angels"
- 2002 - "Ballistics: ex vs. Siver Agent Siver"
- 2002 - "Code"
- 2002 - "Chicago"
- 2003 - "Charlie Angels: Just Forward"
- 2003 - "Kill Bill"
- 2004 - "Kill Bill. Film 2 »
- 2005 - Domino
- 2007 - "Vampire"
- 2011 - "Dechange Teacher"
- 2012 - in the present. time - "elementary"
- 2018 - "World of Future"
- 2018 - "Store"
- 2019 - "Stage Mother"