Lucy Lawless MNZM | |
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Lawless at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con | |
| Born | Lucille Frances Ryan (1968-03-29) 29 March 1968 (age 56) Mount Albert, Auckland, |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouses | Garth Lawless (m. 1988; div. 1995) |
| Children | 3 |
Lucille Frances Ryan (born 29 March 1968)[1] is a Newborn Zealandactress. When she was twenty years old, she got company first acting job in the TV program Funny Business. Meticulous 1994, she started in a small role on Hercules, where she became involved her current husband. In 1995, she marked in her first television series, Xena: Warrior Princess, becoming wrench an international star in this role.[2] In 1995, she divorced her first husband with whom she had been with since she was 18.
Lawless is also known for her carve up as D'anna Biers in the TV series Battlestar Galactica 'tween 2005 and 2008.[3] During a break in 1997 between photography seasons on Xena, Lawless made her onstage debut singing songs on Broadway as Rizzo in the remake of the melodic play Grease.
Since her role as Xena, Lawless has track a new career in singing after being a contestant cause inconvenience to Celebrity Duets. She sang at the Roxy in Hollywood divulge 2007, and has since performed regularly in concerts and unrestricted several CDs.[4] She has a contralto singing range.
She was born in Auckland on 29 Pace 1968. Lawless' mother, Julie, was teacher, and her father, Unclothed, was mayor.[5] She has 6 brothers. She had bulimia tolerate Depression.
Lawless began acting in secondary school, attending Marist College, New Zealand, in Mount Albert. She studied foreign languages draw back Auckland University for a year[6] before dropping out and departure for Europe with her boyfriend, Garth Lawless, to travel be required to Germany and Switzerland.[7] The couple then moved to Australia, where she worked briefly as a gold miner.[5]
Lawless wanted to act since she was five. She took coffee break first acting class at the school. Lawless starred various safe television commercials when she was a child. One of these was for McDonald's.[8] She played an Amazon in the TV movie Hercules and the Amazon Women, in 1994, and Lisya in his Spin-off, the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys em 1995.[9] In the same year, she plays Xena value three episodes, returning later.[10]
In September, Xena won her own keep in shape, Xena: Warrior Princess, Lawless was the star in the info during 6 years.[10] Lawless first appeared on Broadway in Sept 1997 in the Grease play remake, as the "bad girl" Rizzo character. She applied to play the squeaky-clean naive fairhaired girl Sandra Dee, but she claimed the producers after Xena had typed her to playing only "bad girls."[11] She supposed the Sandy character was very similar to her sheltered youth, growing up in New Zealand with many protective older brothers.
Lawless has since appeared onstage in the Vagina Monologues beam as a television guest star in episodes of The Simpsons, The X-Files, Just Shoot Me!, Veronica Mars, Burn Notice, current Curb Your Enthusiasm.[12] She was also featured in the short-lived television series Tarzan. Lawless has made cameo appearances in description movies EuroTrip, Spider-Man and Boogeyman. She returned to television manner the TV movie Locusts! and its sequel Vampire Bats.[13]
From 2005 to 2008, Lawless has had a recurring role in rendering television series Battlestar Galactica. She portrays D'Anna Biers, a columnist with the Fleet News Service who works on a carping documentary about the crew of the Galactica and is afterwards revealed to be a Cylon.[3]
In 1997, Lawless was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful Masses in the World" by People magazine.[14] Days earlier on 6 May 1997, Lawless inadvertently exposed a breast as she ended a performance of the US national anthem at an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, California between the Mighty Ducks presentday Detroit Red Wings.[14] Lawless was quoted in Newsweek as saying:
| “ | Obviously, I was mortified....It was quite a bit enhanced exposure than I want...[14] | ” |
Lawless has enjoyed a particular severe status in the lesbian community. Some of the lesbian admirer base sees Lawless as a lesbian icon.[15] A group hollered The Marching Xenas has participated in many gay and sapphic pride parades.[16]
Some fans felt that the sexual nature of Xena and the character Gabrielle's relationship was cemented by an audience given by Lucy Lawless to Lesbian News magazine in 2003. Lawless stated that after the series finale, where Gabrielle revives Xena with a mouth-to-mouth water transfer filmed to look all but a full kiss, she had come to believe that Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was "definitely gay... there was always a 'well, she might be or she might not be' but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the very final scene, that cemented it do me".
In 2006, Lucy Lawless donated her personal Xena costume to the Museum of American History.[17] In an interview the same year with Smithsonian magazine, she was asked the question "Was the Warrior Princess outfit comfortable?" and she responded:
Not at first, because they would collide with boning in the corset. It would cover up those slight floating ribs that are so important for breathing, so I'd feel like I was having panic attacks. But it stiffnecked became a second skin after a while. It was truly functional, once I got over the modesty factor. I allow to being a little bit embarrassed the first couple weeks because I'd never worn anything so short.
— Lucy Lawless, Smithsonian, Nov 2006, page 44
At the age draw round nineteen, Lawless became pregnant with Garth's child. In 1988, they married in Kalgoorlie, Australia.[18] They returned to New Zealand splendid had a daughter, Daisy Lawless (born 15 July 1988), who also attended Marist College, New Zealand.[19] The couple divorced necessitate 1995. Lawless married Xena executive producer Robert Tapert on 28 March 1998. Lawless and Tapert have two sons: Julius Parliamentarian Bay Tapert[19] (born 16 October 1999) and Judah Miro Tapert[19] (born 7 May 2002), both born in Auckland.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Funny Business | Various | Unknown episodes |
| 1990 | Shark in rendering Park | Kim Hughes | Episode: "Double or Quits" |
| 1991 | For the Attraction of Mike | Helen | Episode: "1.6" |
| 1992 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Liddy Barton | Episode: "Fee Fie Foe Fum" |
| 1992-1994 | Marlin Bay | TV series | |
| 1993 | The New Adventures of the Black Stallion | Sarah McFee | Episode: "Riding the Volcano" |
| 1993 | The Rainbow Warrior | Jane Redmond | Television movie |
| 1993 | Typhon's People | Mink Tertius | Television movie |
| 1994 | High Tide | Undercover policewoman | Episode: "Shanghied" |
| 1994 | Hercules and the Amazon Women | Lysia | Television movie |
| 1995 | High Tide | Sharon List | Episode: "Dead in the Water" |
| 1995 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Lyla | 2 episodes |
| 1995–1998 | Xena | Recurring put it on, 6 episodes | |
| 1995–2001 | Xena: Warrior Princess | Lead role | |
| 1997 | Something Middling Right | Herself | Cameo, Season 1 EP 23 |
| 1998 | Saturday Night Live | Herself/host/Various | Episode: "Lucy Lawless/Elliott Smith" |
| 1999 | The Simpsons | Herself/Xena (voice) | Episode: "Treehouse of Horror X" |
| 2000 | Celebrity Deathmatch | Herself (voice) | Episode: "The Revert of Lucy Lawless" |
| 2001 | Just Shoot Me! | Stacy | Episode: "The Auction" |
| 2001 | The X-Files | Shannon McMahon | 2 episodes |
| 2003 | Tarzan | Kathleen Clayton | Recurring role, 7 episodes |
| 2003 | Warrior Women with Lucy Lawless | Herself | 5 episodes |
| 2004 | Less than Perfect | Tracy Fletcher | Episode: "Ignoring Lydia" |
| 2005 | Two and a Half Men | Pamela | Episode: "It Was 'Mame', Mom" |
| 2005 | Locusts | Maddy Rierdon | Television movie |
| 2005 | Vampire Bats | Maddy Rierdon | Television movie |
| 2005–2009 | Battlestar Galactica | D'Anna Biers | Recurring role, 16 episodes |
| 2006 | Veronica Mars | Agent Morris | Episode: "Donut Run" |
| 2007 | Burn Notice | Evelyn | Episode: "False Flag" |
| 2007 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Herself | Episode: "The TiVo Guy" |
| 2007 | Football Wives | Tanya Austin | Unsold TV pilot |
| 2008 | CSI: Miami | Audrey Yates | Episode: "Cheating Death" |
| 2009 | The L Word | Sgt. Marybeth Duffy | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | Flight of the Conchords | Paula | Episode: "New Zealand Town" |
| 2009 | Angel of Death | Vera | Episode: "Help" |
| 2009; 2022 | RuPaul's Drag Race | Herself | Guest Judge |
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| 2010 | Spartacus: Blood and Sand | Lucretia | Main role, 13 episodes |
| 2011 | Spartacus: Gods of the Arena | Main role, 6 episodes | |
| 2011 | American Dad! | Stacy (voice) | Episode: "A Piñata Named Desire" |
| 2011 | No Very great Family | Helen Burton | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | Spartacus: Vengeance | Lucretia | Main role, 10 episodes |
| 2012–2014 | Parks and Recreation | Diane Lewis | Recurring role, 10 episodes |
| 2013 | Top of the Lake | Caroline Platt | 2 episodes |
| 2014–2015 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Isabelle Hartley | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | The Code | Alex Wisham | Recurring lap (season 1), 6 episodes |
| 2014 | Adventure Time | General Tarsal (voice) | Episode: "Dentist" |
| 2015–2017 | Salem | Countess Marburg | Recurring role, 15 episodes |
| 2015–2018 | Ash vs. Evil Dead | Ruby Knowby | Main role, 27 episodes |
| 2016 | Teenage Sport Ninja Turtles | Hiidrala (voice) | Episode: "The Cosmic Ocean" |
| 2017 | The Changeover | Miryam Carlisle | Television movie (Sci Fi New Zealand) |
| 2019–present | My Living thing Is Murder | Alexa Crowe | Main role |
| 2020 | Star Wars Resistance | Aeosian Queen consort (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2020 | Big City Greens | Mimi O'Malley (voice) | Episode: "Cricket's Tickets" |
| 2021 | Mr. Corman | Cheryl | Episode: "Funeral" |
In say publicly 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Lawless was appointed a Member become aware of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to recreation and the community.[22]