Lucy Lawless Biography
Lucy Lawless (Lucille Frances Ryan) is a New Zealand actress and singer born on 29th March 1968 in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand. She is popularly known for her role as Warrior Princess in television series Xena.
Lucy Lawless is a member of the board of trustees of the StarShip Foundation, the charity arm of the Starship Children’s Health (hospital) which is part of the Auckland District Health Board. It is set up to provide additional equipment, support and help to staff, patients and families.
In 2017 she was given the Star 100–Ally of the Year award at the Australian LGBTI Awards ceremony for her strong support of LGBT rights, including her public support for marriage equality.
Lucy Lawless Career
At the age of 10 Lucy Lawless appeared in her first musical and began acting in secondary school. She attended Marist College, Auckland. At the age of 18 she went on her “overseas experience”, travelling through Europe and Australia with her future husband, Garth Lawless. At 21, she won the 1989 Mrs New Zealand competition. She studied drama at the William Davis Centre for Actors Study in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
She made her television debut in two and a half seasons as a cast member of the New Zealand sketch comedy series Funny Business. In 1994, Lawless appeared in Hercules and the Amazon Women, a Pacific Renaissance Pictures made-for-television film that became the television pilot for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In that episode, she played a man-hating Amazon named Lysia. She went on to play another character, Lyla, in the first-season episode “As Darkness Falls.”
Lucy Lawless Xena/ Xena Warrior Princess
Lawless played the heroic warrior woman named Xena in the episode “The Warrior Princess,” which aired in March 1995. The character proved to be very successful among fans of the show.
Vanessa Angel was originally cast in the role, but she fell ill and was unable to travel to New Zealand for shooting. To differentiate between Xena and the similar Lysia, Lawless’ hair, previously an ash blonde, was dyed black. She also wore a much darker costume, which made her unrecognisable as the Lysia character. Lawless subsequently returned as Xena in two more episodes of the first season of Hercules, which portrayed her turn from villainess to a good, heroic character.
The character became so famous that a spin-off series was created: Xena: Warrior Princess debuted on 4 September 1995. The show became a hit and lasted for six seasons.
In October 1996 during a taping an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno she suffered a fractured pelvis when the horse she was riding lost its footing in the studio car park. Several episodes of the second season of Xena were rewritten to focus on background characters to minimise the time Lawless was needed on set.
While taping an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in October 1996, Lawless suffered a fractured pelvis when the horse she was riding lost its footing in the studio car park. She made a complete recovery, but several episodes of the second season of Xena were rewritten to focus on background characters to minimise the time Lawless was needed on set.
xena and gabrielle
Xena’s ambiguous romantic relationship with travelling companion Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) led to Lawless becoming a lesbian icon, a role she has said she’s proud of.This reputation became cemented after her “graphic lesbian sex scenes” in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. She has appeared at gay pride events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Lucy Lawless Spartacus
Lucy Lawless co-starred in the Starz original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The show was based on the life of Spartacus, the famous gladiator, and the slave revolt he led. She played the role of Lucretia, the wife of Lentulus Batiatus, who were both the owners of a gladiator ludus, which also saw Lawless doing nude scenes for the first time. Lawless won the 2011 Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lucretia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Lawless reprised her role as Lucretia in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, which chronicled life in the Ludus before Spartacus’s arrival, and she also returned for the sequel Spartacus: Vengeance.
Lucy Lawless Salem
In 2015, Lawless landed the recurring guest role of Countess Palatine Ingrid Von Marburg in WGN America’s Salem. She plays Countess Marburg, one of the last remaining survivors of the legendary line of ancient German witches.
Lucy Lawless
Lucy Lawless Spiderman
Lucy appeared in Spiderman as Punk Rocker girl, with short orange hair and a nose piercing, smoking a cigarette.
Lucy Lawless Ash vs Evil Dead
In 2015 she began portraying the role of Ruby in Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs Evil Dead. Ruby is obsessive about getting to Ash Williams and putting him down like a dog, because he’s responsible for the Deadite plague. She holds him responsible for the death of her father, Professor Knowby, who was the original holder of the Necronomicon back in the movies. So she lost her family. She’s looking for payback.
Lucy Lawless singing Career
Lawless has a background in musical theatre as she played Betty Rizzo on Broadway in a production of Grease in 1997. She continued to sing during the run of Xena, even contributing dirge music of her own composition; this made it into the episode “The Path Not Taken” as the dirge “Burial,” which she sang for the first time in the episode.
Lucy was a contestant on Celebrity Duets, which she finished as runner-up to Alfonso Ribeiro. She made her onstage debut on 13th January 2007 at the Roxy in Hollywood.
Lucy Lawless Age
- Lucy was born on 29th March 1968 (50 years as at 2018)
Lucy Lawless Movies
- 1990: Within the Law as Verity
- 1990: A Bitter Song as Nurse 1
- 1991: The End of the Golden Weather as Joe’s Girl
- 1993: The Rainbow Warrior as Jane Redmond
- 1993: Typhon’s People as Mink Tertius
- 1994: Hercules and the Amazon Women as Lysia
- 1996: Peach as Peach
- 1997: Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen as Xena
- 1998: Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie as Xena
- 2000: Ginger Snaps as Announcer on School’s PA System
- 2002: Spider-Man as Punk Rock Girl
- 2004: EuroTrip as Madame Vandersexxx
- 2005: Boogeyman as Mary Jensen
- 2005: Locusts as Maddy Rierdon
- 2005: Vampire Bats as Maddy Rierdon
- 2006: The Darkroom as Cheryl
- 2008: Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight as Goldmoon
- 2008: Justice League: The New Frontier as Wonder Woman
- 2008: Bedtime Stories as Aspen
- 2009: Bitch Slap as Mother Superior
- 2010: Lez Chat as Construction Worker
- 2017: The Changeover
Lucy Lawless TV Shows
- 1989: Funny Business (Various Roles)
- 1990: Shark in the Park as Kim Hughes
- 1991: For the Love of Mike as Helen
- 1992; The Ray Bradbury Theater as Liddy Barton
- 1993: The New Adventures of the Black Stallion as Sarah McFee
- 1994: High Tide as Undercover policewoman
- 1995: High Tide as Sharon List
- 1995–1998: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Lyla
- 1995: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Xena
- 1995–2001: Xena: Warrior Princess as Xena
- 1999: The Simpsons as Herself (Episode: “Treehouse of Horror X”)
- 2000: Celebrity Deathmatch as Herself (Episode: “The Return of Lucy Lawless”)
- 2001: Just Shoot Me! as Stacy
- 2001: The X-Files as Shannon McMahon
- 2003: Tarzan as Kathleen Clayton
- 2003: Warrior Women with Lucy Lawless as Herself
- 2004; Less than Perfect as Tracy Fletcher
- 2005: Two and a Half Men as Pamela
- 2005–2009: Battlestar Galactica as D’Anna Biers
- 2006: Veronica Mars as Agent Morris
- 2007: Burn Notice as Evelyn
- 2007: Curb Your Enthusiasm as Herself (Episode: “The TiVo Guy”)
- 2007: Football Wives as Tanya Austin
- 2008: CSI: Miami as Audrey Yates
- 2009: The L Word as Sgt. Marybeth Duffy
- 2009: Flight of the Conchords as Paula
- 2009: Angel of Death as Vera
- 2010: Spartacus: Blood and Sand as Lucretia
- 2011: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena as Lucretia
- 2011: American Dad! as Stacy
- 2011: No Ordinary Family as Helen Burton
- 2012: Spartacus: Vengeance as Lucretia
- 2012–2014; Parks and Recreation as Diane Lewis
- 2013: Top of the Lake as Caroline Platt
- 2014–2015: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Isabelle Hartley
- 2014: The Code as Alex Wisham
- 2014: Adventure Time as General Tarsal (voice)
- 2015–2017: Salem as Countess Marburg
- 2015–2018: Ash vs. Evil Dead as Ruby Knowby
- 2016: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Hiidrala (voice)
- Lucy Lawless Theatre
- 1997: Grease! – On Broadway, NY USA
- 2002: The Vagina Monologues – Auckland, NZ
- 2005: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Seattle, USA
- 2011: BARE For Christ church – Auckland, NZ
- 2013: Chicago The Musical – Hollywood Bowl, LA, USA
- 2013: Chicago The Musical – Auckland, NZ
- 2014-2015: SLEEPING BEAUTY and Her Winter Knight – Pasadena, CA, USA
- 2017: Pleasuredome The Musical – Auckland, NZ
Lucy Lawless Net Worth
- Lucy has a net worth of $18 million.
Lucy Lawless Family
Her parents are Julie Ryan, a teacher, and Frank Ryan, a banker and Mount Albert’s mayor. She is the fifth of six siblings; four brothers and one sister. Lawless has described her family as “this big, sprawling Irish-Catholic family”.
Lucy Lawless Daughter
Lucy became pregnant with her daughter in 1988, at the age of 19, at the time she was dating Garth Lawless. They were both working in the Australian outback. They married in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia that same year and returned to New Zealand, where their daughter, Daisy Lawless, was born.
Lucy Lawless Husband
On 28th March 1998 Lucy Lawless married Robert G. Tapert popularly known as Rob Tapert, Xena’s executive producer and Pacific Renaissance Pictures CEO. Lucy was previously married to Garth Lawless in 1988, at the age of 19, but they divorced in 1995.
Lucy Lawless Children
Lucy Lawless have three children a daughter and two sons; Daisy Lawless (born in 1989), Julius Robert Bay Tapert (born 16 October 1999) and Judah Miro Tapert (born 7 May 2002)