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Maggie Q

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Also known as Margaret Denise Quigley

American actress

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Film & TV

Acting · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Margaret Denise Quigley (born May 22, 1979), professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American actress, activist, and model. She began her professional career in Hong Kong, with starring roles in the action films Gen-Y Cops (2000) and Naked Weapon (2002), before appearing in the American productions Mission: Impossible III (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Priest (2011) and The Protégé…

Known for

  • Ballard — Detective Renée Ballard2025
  • The Family Plan — Gwen2023
  • Fear the Night — Tess2023
  • Why on Earth2022
  • Pivoting — Sarah2022
  • Bosch: Legacy — Detective Renée Ballard2022
  • The Protégé — Anna2021
  • They're Trying To Kill Us2021
  • Fantasy Island — Gwen Olsen2020
  • Death of Me — Christine2020

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
23
Total plays
567

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/maggie+q">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • [As a vegetarian] I feel better, I have more energy on and off the set, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I’m doing something to help stop animal suffering.

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Encyclopedic overview

Margaret Denise Quigley (born May 22, 1979), known professionally as Maggie Q, is an American actress. She began her professional career in Hong Kong, with starring roles in the action films Gen-Y Cops (2000) and Naked Weapon (2002), before appearing in the American productions Mission: Impossible III (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Priest (2011) and The Protégé (2021). She portrayed Tori Wu in the dystopian science-fiction action film Divergent (2014), and reprised her role in the sequels, Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016). Q starred in the title role on the CW action-thriller series Nikita (2010–2013), and also had a main role as FBI special agent Hannah Wells in the ABC/Netflix political thriller series Designated Survivor (2016–2019). She provided the voice of Wonder Woman on the animated series Young Justice (2012–2019). In 2025, Q began starring in the lead role of Detective Renée Ballard on the Prime Video series Ballard, a spinoff of the television series Bosch: Legacy.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maggie Q” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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