It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

In 2012 Liu joined the cast of the TNT original series Southland in the recurring role of Jessica Tang for which Lucy Liu won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Guest Actress. Lucy Alexis Liu (born Lucy Liu; December 2 1968) is an American actress model artist narrator and film producer. Additionally Lucy Liu earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

In 2012 Liu joined the cast of the TNT original series Southland in the recurring role of Jessica Tang for which Lucy Liu won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Guest Actress. In 2008 Lucy Liu was the series lead of her own television show the ABC comedy-drama Cashmere Mafia which was short-lived and ended after one abbreviated season.