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  • Lucy Liu Honored As 2016 Artist Of The Year By Harvard

    Actress Lucy Liu received recognition for her humanitarian work last Saturday, during the Harvard Foundation’s annual diversity celebration called Cultural Rhythms.

    So honored! @harvfoun

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    The event, which was held at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater in Cambridge, featured other on-campus student organizations, which gave regional performances of their respective cultures.

    Harvard University’s Dean of Admissions, William R. Fitzsimmons went on stage to present the 2016 Artist of the Year Award to Lucy Liu. In the introduction, Fitzsimmons enumerated the Kill Bill star’s various accomplishments, which include being a director, producer, visual artist, and philanthropist.

    Lucy Liu is Honored During Harvard’s ‘Cultural Rhythms’ Event

    The 47-year-old actress was born in Queens, New York to immigrant parents who hailed from Beijing and Shanghai. She attended the Stuyvesant High School, which is one of the top high schools in the country, with an admissions rate lower than Harvard. She went on to earn a degree in Asian languages and cultures from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

    She is most well-known for her acting work in both television and film. Her breakthrough role was Ling Woo, the cold and vicious Chinese-American lawyer in the Fox comedy-drama Ally McBeal. She was also cast as one of the three lead characters in the film Charlie’s Angels alongside Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. In 2003, she appeared O-Ren Ishii in Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 martial parts film Kill Bill.

    Lucy Liu Played the Deadly O-Ren Ishii on ‘Kill Bill’

    However, Lucy Liu is also an accomplished visual artist who creates collages, paintings, and photography. She honed her artistic skills by attending the New York Studio School for drawing, painting, and sculpture for two years.

    Her humanitarian work first became publicly known when she was chosen as the spokeswoman for a fundraiser organized by Lee Jeans to support breast cancer education and research. In 2004, Lucy Liu was selected as an ambassador for the United States Fund for UNICEF. Over the years, she has traveled to various countries to help sick and impoverished children and has involved herself in film projects that showcase human rights violations in other parts of the world.

  • Lucy Liu, “Elementary” Star Honored at Harvard for Humanitarian Work

    Lucy Liu, star of the CBS hit show Elementary, was honored at Harvard Saturday evening for her humanitarian work.

    Named 2016 artist of the year by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Lucy Liu was on hand in Cambridge, Massachusetts to accept her award.

    According to Harvard, Lucy Liu, “worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the plight of women and children in some of the world’s most impoverished countries.”

    The actress, who was born to immigrant parents, is a UNICEF Ambassador and a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign.

    In addition to her role on Elementary, Lucy Liu has also starred in films including Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels.

    Lucy Liu is in extremely fine company in receiving this award from Harvard. Past recipients include Denzel Washington, Matt Damon, Eva Longoria, Salma Hayek, and Andy Garcia.

    Congratulations are certainly in order to Lucy Liu on being recognized with this prestigious award.

  • Lucy Liu Becomes A First-Time Mother At Age 46, Welcomes Baby Via Gestational Carrier

    Lucy Liu is definitely a proud mom now that she welcomed her first son, Rockwell Lloyd Liu, by means of a surrogate.

    The Charlie’s Angels star posted a photo of her with her baby wrapped in a blanket on Instagram.

      Introducing the new little man in my life, my son Rockwell Lloyd Liu. In ❤️!   A photo posted by Lucy Liu (@lucyliu) on

    Liu’s spokesperson said in a statement, “I can confirm that Lucy Liu is the proud mother of Rockwell Lloyd Liu, brought into the world via gestational carrier. Mom and baby are healthy and happy.”

    The baby was delivered through a surrogate or gestational carrier. A surrogate or gestational carrier is a woman who bears the child of a mother who is not capable of carrying a child for some medical reasons like, having no uterus or removal of uterus due to cancer, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). The egg from the mother and the sperm from the father will undergo in vitro fertilization and then the fertilized egg is implanted in the surrogate mother’s womb.

    In vitro fertilization is not limited to those who have problems with their uterus. Older women also need gestational carriers as they are more prone to miscarriages as they age. It is also possible that older women have chronic conditions that could pose health risks for them and for their baby.

    The 46-year-old actress is just one of the few celebrities who sought a gestational carrier’s help to carry their baby. Other celebrity couples that have used this procedure to have a child include Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Jimmy Fallon and wife Nancy, and Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman.

    The actress has been actively working with children as a UNICEF volunteer. In an interview, she said she felt the kids’ appreciation for the “care and love” she had.

    Liu is currently appearing in the crime drama Elementary, airing on WGN America.

  • Lucy Liu Welcomes Baby Boy Via Surrogate

    Lucy Liu welcomed her baby boy, Rockwell Lloyd Liu, last week. He was born via a gestational surrogate.

    A rep for Lucy Liu confirmed the exciting news in a statement to E! News.

    “I can confirm that Lucy Liu is the proud mother of Rockwell Lloyd Liu, brought into the world via gestational carrier,” the statement reads.

    “Mom and baby are healthy and happy,” the rep added.

    It was back in 2010 that the Elementary and Charlie’s Angels star dished about motherhood in an interview with USA Today.

    “I don’t have a settling-down time,” she said as she joked that her biological clock was broken.

    “Someone threw out the battery,” she said.

    “I never feel like it’s too early or too late for anything,” she added. “I don’t ever think for me that this traditional way is the way to go for me because I haven’t had a traditional life.”

    According to Lucy Liu, Rockwell is her first human baby. The “first baby” credit goes solely to Apple, her beautiful canine baby.

    She gave Apple equal time via social media, honoring him on National Dog Day.

    “The Apple of my eye for #nationaldogday #lesqueakytoy @le.roar,” she captioned the photo.

    A video posted by Lucy Liu (@lucyliu) on

    Congratulations to Lucy Liu–and not just on the birth of her baby boy either. Congrats to her on doing things a bit unconventionally, too.

  • Tony Awards 2014: Nominees Announced

    Tony Awards 2014: Nominees Announced

    The nominees for the 2014 Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning by Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu, with A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Hedwig and the Angry Itch receiving the most nods. Hugh Jackman, who is set to host the awards ceremony which will be broadcast live on June 8 on CBS, made an appearance alongside Liu and Groff, as the stars revealed the Tony field.

    Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak’s comedy musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder garnered ten nominations altogether, and the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Itch, starring Neil Patrick Harris, received 8 nominations. The music and lyrics of Hedwig were composed by Lexington, Kentucky’s own Stephen Trask. Harris was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical.

    Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his work in All the Way, and Tony Shalhoub received a nod for Act One.

    Nominees for productions include:

    Best Play:
    Act One
    All the Way
    Casa Valentina
    Mothers and Sons
    Outside Mullingar

    Best Musical:
    After Midnight
    Aladdin
    Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
    A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

    Best Revival of a Play:
    The Cripple of Inishmaan
    The Glass Menagerie
    A Raisin in the Sun
    Twelfth Night

    Best Revival of a Musical:
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Les Miserables
    Violet

    A complete list of the 2014 Tony Award nominees can be found here.

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