She has starred opposite leading men Craig T. Nelson, Tom Sizemore, Wesley Snipes, Mark Wahlberg, Patrick Warburton and Chow Yun-fat. For her performance in The Art of War, she garnered the nomination for Best Actress in a Feature Film at the 2001 AX Awards (the Asian-American Film and TV awards). Matiko was one of the AX Awards Top 20 Newcomers in 2006.
Marie Matiko is known for her starring roles as Julia in The Art of War and as Betty in the 2006 film Date Movie.
In 2008, Matiko finished her degree from UCLA during the Hollywood Writer's Strike.
Additional film and television credits include Universal’s Mystery Men, TBS’s Counterstrike, CBS’s The District and Michael Mann’s Robbery Homicide Division. Marie Matiko voiced Gong Li’s parts in Michael Mann’s Miami Vice and voiced opposite Lucy Liu and Patrick Warburton in the Carsey-WernerpProduction, UPN’s Game Over in television's first full-length CGI cartoon. She was also in Forbidden Warrior, where Matiko plays Seki, the forbidden warrior. Matiko was also on the popular TV series Xena playing the roles of Pao Ssu and K'ao Hsin, the twin daughters of Xena's spiritual mentor, Lao Ma. Her characters are on several collectible XENA: THE WARRIOR Princess trading cards. Concerning her time on Xena, she stated:
