Want to know the best Lucy Liu movies? How about the worst Lucy Liu movies? Curious about Lucy Liu box office grosses or which Lucy Liu movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Lucy Liu movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Lucy Liu (1968-) is a Taiwanese-American actress. Liu’s film work includes starring in Payback (1999), Charlie’s Angels (2000), Shanghai Noon (2000), Chicago (2002), Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), and Set It Up (2018). Her IMDb page shows over 95 acting credits since 1992. This page will rank Lucy Liu movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Lucy Liu Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 2002 | Chicago (2002) AA Best Picture Win |
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| 1996 | Jerry Maguire (1996) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 2008 | Kung Fu Panda (2008) Voice Only |
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| 2011 | Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) Voice Only |
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| 2016 | Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) Voice Only |
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| 2004 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) | |
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| 2003 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) | |
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| 2000 | Charlie's Angels (2000) | |
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| 1999 | Payback (1999) | |
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| 2000 | Shanghai Noon (2000) |  |
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| 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) | |
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| 2024 | Red One (2024) |  |
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| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) | |
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| 2013 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) Voice Only |
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| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin (2006) | |
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| 1997 | Gridlock'd (1997) | |
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| 1999 | True Crime (1999) | |
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| 2008 | Tinker Bell (2008) | |
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| 1996 | Guy (1996) | |
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| 2025 | Presence (2025) | |
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| 2010 | Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) | |
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| 2018 | Set It Up (2018) |  |
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| 2009 | Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) | |
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| 2012 | Secret of the Wings (2012) | |
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| 2012 | The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) | |
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| 2011 | Detachment (2011) | |
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| 2007 | Watching The Detectives (2007) Film Festival Circuit Only |
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| 2002 | Cypher (2002) |  |
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| 2020 | Stage Mother (2020) | |
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| 2014 | The Pirate Fairy (2014) | |
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| 1997 | City of Industry (1997) | |
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| 1999 | The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) | |
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| 1995 | Bang (1995) | |
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| 2005 | 3 Needles (2005) |  |
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| 2021 | Death To 2021 (2021) Netflix |
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| 2010 | Nómadas (2010) | |
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| 2011 | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (2011) Limited Release |
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| 2007 | Rise: Blood Hunter (2007) | |
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| 2011 | The Trouble with Bliss (2011) | |
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| 2007 | Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |  |
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| 2005 | Domino (2005) | |
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| 1999 | Molly (1999) | |
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| 1999 | Play It to the Bone (1999) | |
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| 2002 | Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) | |
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| 2001 | Hotel (2001) | |
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| 2018 | Future World (2018) | |
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| 2008 | The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008) | |
Lucy Liu Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort Lucy Liu movies by her co-stars
- Sort Lucy Liu movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Lucy Liu movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Lucy Liu movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Lucy Liu movie received.
- Sort Lucy Liu movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Chicago (2002) AA Best Picture Win |
Renée Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones |
170.70 | 367.9 | 661.2 | 10 | 81 | 13 / 06 | 99.8 | |
| 2 | Jerry Maguire (1996) AA Best Picture Nom |
Tom Cruise & Renée Zellweger |
154.00 | 435.4 | 773.6 | 4 | 82 | 05 / 01 | 99.1 | |
| 3 | Kung Fu Panda (2008) Voice Only |
Jack Black & Dustin Hoffman |
215.40 | 375.1 | 1,099.8 | 6 | 82 | 01 / 00 | 97.8 | |
| 4 | Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) Voice Only |
Jack Black & Angelina Jolie |
165.20 | 260.5 | 1,049.3 | 15 | 80 | 01 / 00 | 97.0 | |
| 5 | Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) Voice Only |
Jack Black & Bryan Cranston |
143.50 | 207.4 | 753.1 | 20 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 97.0 | |
| 7 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) | Uma Thurman & Directed by Quentin Tarantino |
66.20 | 133.3 | 306.3 | 44 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 93.0 | |
| 8 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) | Daryl Hannah & Directed by Quentin Tarantino |
70.10 | 145.3 | 375.1 | 40 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 92.7 | |
| 6 | Charlie's Angels (2000) | Cameron Diaz & Drew Barrymore |
125.30 | 290.6 | 612.5 | 14 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 91.3 | |
| 10 | Payback (1999) | Mel Gibson & James Coburn |
81.50 | 201.4 | 399.3 | 25 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 90.5 | |
| 9 | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Owen Wilson & Jackie Chan |
56.90 | 132.0 | 230.2 | 46 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 89.6 | |
| 11 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) | Cameron Diaz & Drew Barrymore |
100.80 | 209.0 | 537.3 | 29 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 86.9 | |
| 14 | Red One (2024) | Dwayne Johnson & Chris Evans |
97.00 | 97.0 | 185.9 | 23 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 77.5 | |
| 13 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) | Zachary Levi & Helen Mirren |
57.50 | 62.7 | 144.0 | 44 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 75.4 | |
| 12 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) Voice Only |
James Caan & Mary Steenburgen |
0.70 | 1.1 | 37.2 | 189 | 81 | 01 / 00 | 68.0 | |
| 14 | Lucky Number Slevin (2006) | Josh Hartnett & Ben Kingsley |
22.50 | 42.7 | 107.0 | 109 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 60.7 | |
| 14 | Gridlock'd (1997) | Tupac Shakur & Tim Roth |
5.60 | 15.2 | 15.2 | 142 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 58.2 | |
| 17 | True Crime (1999) | Clint Eastwood & James Woods |
16.60 | 41.1 | 41.1 | 94 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 56.3 | |
| 18 | Tinker Bell (2008) | Kristin Chenoweth | 0.00 | 0.1 | 4.3 | 373 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 53.5 | |
| 19 | Guy (1996) | Vincent D'Onofrio | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 304 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 51.7 | |
| 21 | Presence (2025) | Directed by Steven Soderbergh | 6.90 | 6.9 | 10.1 | 105 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 51.2 | |
| 21 | Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) | Michael Sheen | 0.00 | 0.1 | 11.2 | 370 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 50.6 | |
| 24 | Set It Up (2018) | Taye Diggs | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 425 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 47.8 | |
| 24 | Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) | Mae Whitman | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 386 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 47.8 | |
| 22 | Secret of the Wings (2012) | Anjelica Huston | 0.10 | 0.1 | 105.4 | 341 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 47.7 | |
| 24 | The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) | Russell Crowe | 15.60 | 24.6 | 31.0 | 119 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 44.0 | |
| 25 | Detachment (2011) | James Caan & Bryan Cranston |
0.10 | 0.1 | 5.9 | 252 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 44.0 | |
| 26 | Watching The Detectives (2007) Film Festival Circuit Only |
Josh Gad | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 422 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 41.7 | |
| 28 | Cypher (2002) | Jeremy Northam | 0.00 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 360 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 39.6 | |
| 29 | Stage Mother (2020) | Adrian Grenier | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 292 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 38.4 | |
| 30 | The Pirate Fairy (2014) | Tom Hiddleston | 0.00 | 0.1 | 113.0 | 410 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 37.2 | |
| 31 | City of Industry (1997) | Harvey Keitel & Stephen Dorff |
1.60 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 182 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 34.2 | |
| 32 | The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) | David Hyde Pierce | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 313 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 31.6 | |
| 33 | Bang (1995) | Darling Narita | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 265 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 30.6 | |
| 34 | 3 Needles (2005) | Chloë Sevigny | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 358 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 28.8 | |
| 35 | Death To 2021 (2021) Netflix |
Hugh Grant | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 231 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 25.6 | |
| 35 | Nómadas (2010) | Tamlyn Tomita | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 361 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 23.5 | |
| 36 | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (2011) Limited Release |
Ellen Burstyn | 0.10 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 294 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 19.8 | |
| 37 | Rise: Blood Hunter (2007) | Carla Gugino & Robert Forster |
0.10 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 291 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 11.7 | |
| 38 | The Trouble with Bliss (2011) | Michael C. Hall & Peter Fonda |
0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 354 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 11.0 | |
| 39 | Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) | Cedric the Entertainer | 8.10 | 14.8 | 14.8 | 148 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 8.6 | |
| 41 | Domino (2005) | Keira Knightley & Christopher Walken |
10.20 | 19.9 | 44.8 | 149 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 8.4 | |
| 41 | Molly (1999) | Elisabeth Shue & Aaron Eckhart |
0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 322 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 4.5 | |
| 43 | Play It to the Bone (1999) | Woody Harrelson & Antonio Banderas |
8.40 | 20.8 | 20.8 | 132 | 33 | 00 / 00 | 3.8 | |
| 44 | Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) | Antonio Banderas | 14.30 | 30.8 | 30.8 | 127 | 29 | 00 / 00 | 3.3 | |
| 43 | Hotel (2001) | John Malkovich & Salma Hayek |
0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 350 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 3.0 | |
| 46 | Future World (2018) | James Franco | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 477 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 1.8 | |
| 46 | The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008) | Sharon Stone | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 399 | 31 | 00 / 00 | 0.9 |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Lucy Liu
1. Lucy Liu was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York in 1968.
2. Lucy Liu might be best known for playing the role of Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), and Joan Watson in the crime-drama series Elementary (2012–2019).
3. At the age of 19, while traveling on the subway, Lucy Liu was discovered by an agent..
4. Lucy Liu is a member of The Committee of 100 since 2004, an organization of Chinese Americans that aims to serve as a bridge between China and the United States.
5. Lucy Liu was chosen by Goldsea Asian American Daily as one of the “100 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time” (ranked #51).
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Lucy Liu is the # 27 connected actor of the 2000’s.
IMDB credits Lucy with 16 acting awards and 23 nominations and she has a current reported net worth of $16 million. Reportedly also she has been paid $130,000 per episode for some of her television work.
Lucy seems to have just one project in the pipeline and at pre-production stage. It is a TV movie which is currently referred to by IMDB as “Untitled Workplace Comedy” and it seems that she will be the star of it though she is the only thespian name mentioned in connection with it at the moment. Here’s what IMDB production notes say about it: “A diva boss with no patience for working parents who adopts a baby and has a change of heart, casting her mother-of-three assistant as an unlikely mentor and upending the office dynamics.”
Once again this site has my admiration for its diversity in profiling a Taiwanese-American thespian. WH has provided us with some Interesting Facts above but I pity Lucy for now in relation to Fact No 4 –“ Lucy Liu is a member of The Committee of 100 since 2004, an organization of Chinese Americans that aims to serve as a bridge between China and the United States.” She’ll certainly have her work cut out there at the moment!
PS: I like the little miniature still above with Lucy and Cam [another big ticket seller in terms of strong purchasing power] looking ravishing
Hey Bob…fixed your requested paragraph Good stuff on her televison work, net worth, future projects (Untitled Workplace Comedy) and award recognition. Thanks for the kind words about UMR. Glad you liked our Cam photo. Good stuff as always…will check out part 1 later tonight…going golfing today.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for fixing that – much appreciated,
You are welcome.