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Ryan (disambiguation)
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Portrays:	Number Three/D'Anna Biers
Date of Birth:	March 29, 1968
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Age:	56
Nationality:	NZ
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Lucille Frances Ryan (born March 29, 1968), better known as Lucy Lawless, is an actress best known to genre fans as the tall, dark haired, blue eyed warrior, Xena, in Xena: Warrior Princess, the hit TV show which ran from 1995 to 2001. On the Re-imagined Series, she plays a humanoid Cylon known as Number Three.

Biographical Notes

Lucy Lawless was born in Mount Albert, New Zealand to a large Irish Catholic family headed by Frank and Julie Ryan.

Lawless was the fifth child (four older brothers and one younger sister) who found her niche as an actor and a singer whilst at secondary school. A little known fact about Lucy is that she was studying to be an opera singer but lack of interest in the life of an opera singer saw her onto other endeavours.

Lawless enrolled at Auckland University where she studied languages. Whilst she was studying she got her first acting break in a New Zealand commercial for Getaway Tours. With the money from that break, she dropped out of University and headed to Europe.

Lawless ended her overseas experience with her last stop in Australia splitting rocks for a gold-mining company in Kalgoorlie. She married her boyfriend Garth Lawless in 1988 and they went back to New Zealand where Lucy gave birth to her daughter, Daisy.

Studied acting at the William Davis Center for Actors in Vancouver in 1991. When she returned to New Zealand, she had minor roles on New Zealand TV for The Love of Mike (1991) and Shark In the Park III (1991). That same year also saw her in two movies The Bitter Song and The End of the Golden Weather.

In 1992, Lawless starred with Jon Voight and Sam Neill in the movie The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Various roles followed and the actress was in steady employment.

In 1995, after doing several appearances in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, the producers were looking to cast for a role that would change the actress's life forever. Due to several actresses being unavailable to travel to New Zealand where Hercules was being shot, Lawless was approached and offered the role which was initially going to be for three episodes.

Universal Studios saw the dailies for the Xena episodes and realised they had found another hit. The spin off series proved to be a giant killer, toppling Baywatch and Star Trek: The Next Generation from the number 1 position in the Nielsen ratings, becoming one of the most watched syndicated shows in the US and in 115 other countries.

The year of 1996 was momentous for Lawless. In August, Lawless appeared on the hit talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show where she performed "I'm an old Cowhand". One of the producers from the musical Grease! on Broadway was watching the show and was so impressed when Lucy started singing that he called her and Lucy was on the road to Broadway to star as Rizzo in Grease! for the following year.

Later that year (1996), Lucy fractured her pelvis when she was thrown from a horse while preparing for a skit for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In addition to her acting, Lawless is a tireless worker for charities such as the Starship Foundation in New Zealand, Breast Cancer Research, AIDS charities and World Vision. In June 2004, Lawless was awarded Order of Merit in the Queen's Birthday Honour List for 2004. Lawless has been given this honor for services to entertainment and the community.

Lawless married Xena producer Robert Gerard Tapert in 1998. They have two children, Julius and Judah and daughter, Daisy, from her first marriage to Garth Lawless.

Lawless has also appeared in the movies Eurotrip, Boogeyman, had a cameo as a punk in Spiderman and will shortly be seen in the movies Darkroom and Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. She is voice for the character of Goldmoon in the animated movie Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Often cited on fan boards as a popular choice for playing the superhero Wonder Woman, Lawless provided the voice for the character in the animated film Justice League: New Frontier.

Since completing work on Battlestar Galactica, Lawless has portrayed Lucretia on the Starz series 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand since 2010 and recently joined the cast of No Ordinary Family along with Tricia Helfer.

Filming Battlestar Galactica

Lawless portrays D'Anna Biers, a Number Three Humanoid Cylon. The Biers copy is a Colonial reporter who does an exposé on Colonel Saul Tigh, and is one of the three humanoid Cylons to be revealed in the second season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.

She also appears in 11 episodes of Season 3 and a few of Season 4.

External Links

• Ryan (disambiguation) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Official Fanclub incl. Lawless's Blog
• Lucy Lawless Fansite Portal
• Fansite for Lucy Lawless
• Lucy is Lawless Fansite
• Lucy Lawless GALACTICA.TV interview including audio!

Ryan (disambiguation)
Portrays:	Pilot #3, Lieutenant Eammon Pike
Date of Birth:	July 13, 1983
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Age:	41
Nationality:	CAN
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Ryan Christopher McDonell (born July 13, 1983) is a Canadian actor who portrays Lieutenant Eammon "Gonzo" Pike in various episodes of the Re-imagined Series' fourth season.

Born in Berwick, Nova Scotia, McDonell has acted in various genre series, including Andromeda and The Twilight Zone.

External Links

• Ryan McDonell interview at GALACTICA.TV

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Ryan Nelson is an actor who portrayed a pilot in the Miniseries.

Nelson has only a handful of acting credits, including Dark Angel (with Mike Dopud, Patrick Gallagher, and John Mann).

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Ryan Robbins is an actor who portrayed two roles on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica: the Armistice Officer in the Miniseries, and Charlie Connor in Season 3 and Season 4. He also portrayed the STO soldier and trainer Diego in Caprica.

Robbins, a fan of the Original Series, has a circus background, similar to that of actor Richard Hatch (the original Apollo). Robbins has also acted in theater, starting when he was "quite young," and was a musician prior to acting.

After the Miniseries, Robbins worked on the 2004 dark comedy, Men Feel Pain, playing a "guy going through a really rough time" who is "so desperate to have somebody make my life better [that] I find [a] poor guy and bring all these other people to him and [eventually] decides that he’s going to be the one who saves us all". The role resulted in Robbin's winning the 2005 Leo Award for "Best Performance By A Male in a Short Drama".

Robbins later won an award as "Best Actor" from the Sacramento Film Festival for his role in 2005's When Jesse Was Born, portraying a young father who tries to make a good life for his family through criminal activities.

Outside of Battlestar, he also portrayed Ladon Radim, a Genii scientist-turned-leader in Stargate Atlantis in multiple episodes, as well as the character Sands in two episodes of the short-lived Blade television series. He also plays the character of Henry Foss in the Sanctuary television series.

As of 2006, Robbins was married, and had a three-year-old daughter.

References

External Links

• Ryan Robbins Fan website
• Ryan Robbins interview

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Bill Ryan is the Assistant Special Effects Coordinator for the Re-imagined Series and Caprica.

Ryan hosts one of David Eick's video blog episode on creating the complex resurrection set for the episode "Downloaded".

Ryan has worked on such genre television series as Dark Angel, The Dead Zone, Millennium, Peacemakers, and Strange World.

References

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Ryan Mottesheard is the script coordinator for Re-imagined Series. Mottesheard is part of the writing staff and production team for Caprica.

Writer credits for "Battlestar Galactica"

• Season 4
  • No Exit

See also: Episodes written by Ryan Mottesheard

References

Chief Ryan is a person who calls Mr. Brooks at the UBC regarding the so-called attempted abduction of Dr. Donald Mortinson.

As Brooks is attempting to convince Jamie Hamilton to turn in Dillon and Troy to authorities at the time, he tells Ryan that he will have to call him back ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

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Sarah Ryan is a deckhand aboard Galactica following the Second Exodus.

Ryan is present when Kara "Starbuck" Thrace berates Chief Galen Tyrol after finding leaking hydraulic seals on Viper 8757's landing gear, and orders him to replace them―despite the fact that reserves on replacement parts are virtually non-existent ^{(TRS: "Maelstrom")}.

Notes

While credited in the episode, Ryan's scenes are relegated to deleted scenes, initially released by then-SciFi Channel as a "bonus scene." Its integration into canon is therefore considered dubious for the character is never seen thereafter.

Camille Atebe would later play Phoebe in Caprica's "False Labor".

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Lieutenant Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders is a young Raptor pilot on Galactica. He has gained some notoriety from undertaking heavy-handed combat landings. For this, he is good-naturedly teased by Kara Thrace while she is acting as CAG during Lee Adama's absence from ship. Later, he pilots the Raptor carrying Thrace's Marine strike team to Astral Queen ^{(TRS: "Bastille Day")}.

He is killed in an accident on the hangar deck, when a rocket-propelled communications drone breaks free from its storage mount, igniting the motors and causing an explosion. At the time of his death, he had just completed his 1,000th shipboard landing ^{(TRS: "Act of Contrition")}.

Notes

• When Flat Top's Raptor docks with Astral Queen in "Bastille Day," the name plate on the vessel gives his name as "Ryan Cisco". However, at the start of "Act of Contrition" an announcement over the ship's intercom can be heard, in which the character's name is given as "Dwight 'Flat Top' Saunders". Battlestar Wiki chooses to show preference to the latter reference, as the name was changed by the production for potential legal or creative reasons.
• "Flat top," in this context, likely refers to the hairstyle. In real-world military parlance, it is also a slang term for an aircraft carrier.

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Original Series definition: an all-purpose term for Colonial soldier and Viper pilot (see: Warrior)

Galactica 1980 definition: When John Steadman asks if the Warriors know anything about these creatures, Dillon looks this up ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}

Re-imagined Series definition: Battlestar Group ^{(TRS: "Water")}. It also doubles as an acronym for the television series itself.

Re-imagined Series definition: a nickname used as a substitute for an aviator's given name in wireless communications and in conversation