• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
• Graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a degree in Asian languages and cultures.
• Graduated from Stuyvesant high school in 1986.
• Attended New York University for a year.
• Mother is a biochemist, father is a civil engineer and she has a brother and a sister.
• Grew up in the Jackson Heights section of Queens County, New York.
• Was the first Asian-American female to host "Saturday Night Live" (1975).
• She once worked as an aerobics instructor.
• She plays the accordion.
• She practices rock climbing, skiing, & horseback riding.
• Auditioned for a role in Shanghai Knights (2003), but lost out to Fann Wong.
• Is an initiated sister of Chi Omega Fraternity
• Announced that she plans on marrying Zach Helm, her boyfriend of one year. [April 2004]
• Shares a birthday with Britney Spears
• Mentioned in Outkast's hit "Hey Ya".
• Good friends with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore since Charlie's Angels (2000)
• One of the guests at Ashton Kutcher's and Demi Moore's wedding in 2005.
• Graduated Stuyvesant High School the same year as Yelba Osorio and Zorikh Lequidre.
Fluent in Italian.
• Is close friends with her "Pearl" (1996) co-star Rhea Perlman and her husband Danny DeVito
• Ranked as #56 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
• Auditioned for the role of Elektra in Daredevil (2003), but lost out to Jennifer Garner.
• Named #79 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
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