Maggie Q Married, Husband, Height, Age, Net worth, Parents, Ethnicity

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Maggie Q is a popular American television and film actress. She has appeared in films such as Mission: Impossible III, Live Free or Die Hard and Divergent . She is most famous for her role as Nikita Mears, the badass, rogue, and black ops agent on the CW action series. Nikita . Maggie is also passionate about animal rights and is a vegetarian. Here you can learn more about her, including her height, ethnicity, husband, parents, etc.

Maggie Q Bio, Age and Ethnicity

Margaret Denise Quigley, popularly known as Maggie Q, was born on the 22nddated March 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Maggie is of mixed ethnicity of Vietnamese, Irish and Polish. The young girl grew up in Hawaii and was the youngest of five siblings. She received her education at various schools in Hawaii before graduating from Mililani High School in 1997. As a high school student, she excelled in both her academic work and athletics (track and field, cross-country skiing, and swimming), which is why she earned an athlete’s scholarship to attend a private college. Maggie hoped to study veterinary medicine in college but was unable to continue due to lack of funds. She therefore decided to try other avenues to save for college.

Maggie Q ventured into modeling without much success. This may have been due to her Asian appearance. She then decided to relocate to Tokyo, Japan to see if she could make any progress. When she arrived in 1997, she still found it difficult to perform runways as she was small. She then moved to Taiwan and later to Hong Kong, where she found happiness. In Hong Kong, she got both publicity and photoshoot and changed her surname to Q so that her Chinese audience could easily pronounce it.

The model finally got a well-deserved breakthrough when she was chosen by a company founded by Jackie Chan to groom future action stars. She completed months of training and began landing film roles. Her first on-screen work was in the 1998 popular Asian drama, House of the Dragon . She also starred in other projects like Model from Hell, Gen-Y Cops, Naked Weapon and House of Harmony . Hollywood finally noticed Maggie Q’s rising fame in Asia and called. She co-starred with Tom Cruise in Task: Impossible III in 2006.

Since then, she has appeared in several critically acclaimed Hollywood television series and films. Some of them include Live Free or Die Hard, Nikita, Divergent, Stalker , etc. Q’s latest project is the 2016 ABC/Netflix series Designated Survivor , where she plays the role of FBI agent Hannah Wells. Other stars of the series include 24 Actors, Keifer Sutherland (as Thomas Adam “Tom” Kirkman), Natascha McElhone (as Thomas Adam “Tom” Kirkman), Adan Canto (as Alexandra “Alex” Kirkman), and others.

Family: Parents, Maggie’s husband (married)

Her father is part Irish and part Polish while her mother is from Vietnam. Her parents actually met during the Vietnam War when her father was stationed there. They fell in love and subsequently married and had Maggie Q and her two older siblings. Before Quigley’s mother married her father, she was previously married to another man with whom she had two children. Thus, Maggie is the youngest of all five children born to her mother.

The Nikita star is not married but is in a relationship with Dylan McDermott. McDermott is an award-winning actor known for films and TV shows like Steel Magnolias, American Horror Story and The Exercise.

Maggie and McDermott met on the set of the short-lived TV series, Stalker in 2014. It was love at first sight for McDermott and they began dating afterward. They dated for four months before getting engaged in January 2015. If they tie the knot, it will be Maggie Q’s first time hitchhiking. On the other hand, McDermott was already married and has two daughters.

Body stats, height and weight

One of Maggie Q’s trademarks is her slim body. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 112 ½ pounds or 51 kg. She has a chest that measures 33 inches or 84 cm, hips that measure 23 inches or 58 cm, and a waist that measures 34 inches or 86 cm.

The former model-turned-actress became a vegetarian in 1998 after a chance meeting with a PETA representative. In 2010, she began effectively eliminating all animal products from her diet. She credits her vegan diet with keeping her in shape for the action roles she typically plays. In 2017, PETA named her one of the Sexiest Vegans.

Maggie Q’s net worth (income and earnings)

Maggie Q has a net worth of $9 million, which isn’t bad for a woman who ended up in Tokyo with just $20 in her pocket.

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As previously mentioned, she is a big time animal advocate for lovers and animal rights. She works with organizations like PETA and in her ads has urged people to stop eating meat and other practices that are harmful to animals. She also uses her social media accounts to promote animal rights.

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