Ling Woo is a fictional character in the US comedy-drama Ally McBeal, portrayed by Chinese-American actress Lucy Liu. A Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American lawyer, Ling has been described as cold and ferocious and knowledgeable in an art of sexual pleasure unknown to the Western world. At the time, she was the most famous and only significant representative of Asian women on US television (besides news anchors and reporters). Thus, the portrayal of Ling Woo attracted much scholarly attention in the US.