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'''Lucy Lawless''' is best known to genre fans as Xena, in ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', a long running series in the 1990s. | '''Lucy Lawless''' is best known to genre fans as Xena, in [[Wikipedia:Xena: Warrior Princess|''Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', a long running series in the 1990s. | ||
Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan) was born 29 March 1968 in Mount Albert, New Zealand to a large Irish Catholic family headed by Frank and Julie Ryan. Lucy is best known for her role on the cult tv series "Xena Warrior Princess" as the tall, dark haired, blue eyed warrior, Xena. The hit TV show ran from 1995 to 2001. Lucy is 5'9, dark blonde with blue eyes. | Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan) was born 29 March 1968 in Mount Albert, New Zealand to a large Irish Catholic family headed by Frank and Julie Ryan. Lucy is best known for her role on the cult tv series "Xena Warrior Princess" as the tall, dark haired, blue eyed warrior, Xena. The hit TV show ran from 1995 to 2001. Lucy is 5'9, dark blonde with blue eyes. | ||
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Lucy Lawless is best known to genre fans as Xena, in Xena: Warrior Princess, a long running series in the 1990s.
Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan) was born 29 March 1968 in Mount Albert, New Zealand to a large Irish Catholic family headed by Frank and Julie Ryan. Lucy is best known for her role on the cult tv series "Xena Warrior Princess" as the tall, dark haired, blue eyed warrior, Xena. The hit TV show ran from 1995 to 2001. Lucy is 5'9, dark blonde with blue eyes.
Lucy 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.
Lucy 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.
Lucy 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 of 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), "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 Lucy starred with Jon Voight and Sam Neill in the movie "The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior". Various roles followed and Lucy was in steady employment.
In 1995 after doing several appearances in "Hercules: The Legendary Journies", the producers were looking to cast for a role that would change Lucy's life forever. Due to several actresses being unavailable to travel to New Zealand where Hercules was being shot, Lucy 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 by toppling Baywatch and Star Trek from the number 1 position in the Nielsons Ratings and was the most watched show in the US and in 115 other countries.
1996 was a momentous year for Lucy. In August Lucy appeared on the hit talk show "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, Lucy 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 Lucy was awarded Order of Merit in the Queen's Birthday Honour List for 2004. Lucy has been given this honour for services to entertainment and the community.
Lucy married Xena producer Robert Gerard Tapert in 1998 and they have two children, Julius and Judah and daughter, Daisy, from her first marriage to Garth Lawless.
Lucy 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", "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" and the did the voice for the character of Goldmoon in the animated movie "Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight."
She portrays D'anna Biers (or "Number Three"), a Colonial reporter who does an exposé on Colonel Saul Tigh, and is one of the three Cylon agents to be revealed in the second season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
She will appear in 10 episodes of season 3 (which consists of 20 total episodes).