Nikita-Maggie Q Starring

Do you know who Maggie Q is? She was the unfeasibly good looking spy in the red dress in Mission Impossible 3 with sexy catsuit, which is a greatly underrated film, by the way. Watch it again - or for the first time if you’ve never watched it. Maggie Q also has the lead role in the new TV series Nikita, playing an assassin. She is pretty hot and sexy when she wears catsuit to fight. Excellent. Apparently, she is FAR too sexy in the posters for this series and numerous shopping malls are refusing to post them.

Maggie Q’s birth name is Margaret Denise Quigley. She was born in May 22, 1979, in Honolulu, Hawaii. And she is an American actress and former fashion model. She currently stars as the titular character on the action-thriller TV series Nikita.
The new fall CW drama continues the adventures of spy-assassin Nikita after she's gone rogue, but also pays tribute to that dark origin story with a new generation of young kids, ready to be led astray by a shadowy agency. At the "Nikita" session at Thursday’s (July 29) press tour, Q reveals that in her youth she traveled to Asia as a broke student, intending to only be there two months, but ended up staying eight years, working with Chan and doing martial arts projects.

“It was a struggle to be a woman in the business and I was incredibly inexperienced,” she says. “It has totally molded me into the actor I am, learning things on the fly, whether it’s languages, whether it’s action. We don’t have unions in Asia, so when I came to American and they told me ‘You’re going to work 12-hour days,' I almost fainted. I couldn’t believe it. I had never worked a 12-hour day. I've worked 16-18-hour days every day.”

Another way her time in Asia changed her life can be seen in the "Nikita" poster, more specifically on her upper thigh and hip. The tattoo of a phoenix is her own, and Q is thrilled she doesn't have to hide them with makeup to play Nikita. The phoenix is just one of three tattoos Q sports, it has a curious origin story of its own. Apparently, while living in Asia, she tagged along with friends who’d visit fortunetellers.