57-year-old Lucy Liu is full of memories about 'Sex and the City'

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Publiation data: 17.01.2026 11:08

I was playing myself, but I was worried about what people would think of me.

Lucy Liu revealed unexpected details about the filming of 'Sex and the City'.

The actress recalled her participation in the famous series in a recent issue of 'Life in Images' by Vogue.

The actress took part in the 4th season of the popular series, where she, according to the plot, carried a Hermès Birkin bag. Liu shared that there was special security on set that monitored the bag.

I thought, 'What’s so special about this bag?' she said.

Lucy played a client of Samantha (played by Kim Cattrall), who used the character's famous name to acquire a rare Hermès Birkin bag and avoid a five-year waiting period.

'I was playing myself, but I was worried about what people would think of me,' Liu recalled. 'The whole plot revolves around the Hermès bag. During rehearsals, I used a prop bag, and when we started filming, there was security, people in suits, like in the movie 'Men in Black.' They had a safe where this Hermès bag was kept. They wore white gloves, just as it should be.'

The Hermès Birkin bag was created in 1981 after the brand's artistic director Jean-Louis Dumas accidentally met actress Jane Birkin aboard Air France. Noticing that all her belongings were falling out of her favorite woven bag, he decided to create something fashionable yet practical for her. In 1985, Hermès asked Birkin to name the future iconic bag model after the star. Throughout her life, the company Hermès gifted the actress four more bags, but she preferred the original design and often carried that one.

Lucy Liu was born on December 2, 1968, in New York City, in the Queens area. She is the youngest of three children, with a brother named John and a sister named Jenny. Lucy's parents immigrated from Taiwan; her mother, Cecilia, works as a biochemist, while her father, Tom Liu, is a civil engineer. At the age of five, she began learning English, having previously spoken Chinese. She graduated from high school in 1986. She enrolled at New York University but later transferred to the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Asian Languages and Culture. In addition to English, she also speaks Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian.

From 2012 to 2019, she starred in the crime drama 'Elementary' as Joan Watson.

In 2010, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.

On August 27, 2015, Liu gave birth to her son Rockwell Lloyd Liu, who was carried by a surrogate mother.