Lucy Lawless Add to My Celebs Age 44 Birthday Mar. 29th, 1968 Born in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand Height 5' 11"

Lucy Lawless' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Battlestar Galactica D'Anna Biers Spartacus Lucretia Xena: Warrior Princess Xena Spartacus: Gods of the Arena Lucretia Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Xena Tarzan Kathleen Cl… Hercules and Xena: The Battle for Mount Olympus Xena Top of The Lake Caroline Celebrity Duets Lucy Lawless

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Bitch Slap 2008 - Bedtime Stories 2005 - Boogeyman 2004 - EuroTrip 2002 - Spider-Man 2000 - Ginger Snaps 1995 - Your Studio and You 1991 - The End of the Golden Weather

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

New Zealand icon Lucy Lawless, is most famously known for her role as Xena the Warrior Princess but her talent has exceeded that as you can see in her other roles.

Born on the 29th of March in 1968, the New Zealand superstar has most recently starred in the hit TV show Battlestar Gallactica. Lucy was also in several made-for-TV movies including: Locusts, Vampire Bats and Footballers Wives.

Lucy also lent her voice to the straight-to-video movies: Justice League: The New Frontier and Dragonlance: Dragons of the Autumn Twilight.

Currently, in 2008 she is living in the USA and is married to Robert Tapert, with 3 children.


TRIVIA:

• She was offered the role of Ellen Tigh in Battlestar Galactica (2004), but she refused. That role was played by 'Kate Vernon' (qv) and the scriptwriters created another role for her, the evil D'anna Biers.
• Sister-in-law of actress 'Mary Beth Tapert' (qv).
• (1997) Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
• A vocal supporter of gay rights, Lawless is considered something of a gay icon. After the cancellation of _"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995)_ (qv), Lawless has said she considered her character a lesbian. Since that time the actress has also worked to support equal protections for gay and lesbian couples including protesting Proposition 8, which stripped gay and lesbian couples of the right to wed in California.
• Lucy suffered a miscarriage immediately following the filming of the last episode of Xena. She considered canceling the appearance she was to make with Xena partner 'Renée O'Connor (I)' (Gabrielle) at a fan convention. However, she decided to showed up despite the tragic event just a few days earlier and even though Renee was 6 months pregnant with her first baby.
• Awarded the New Zealand Order Of Merit (NZOM), Queen's Birthday Honours 2004, for services to NZ entertainment and the community.
• (October 1996) fractured her pelvis after falling from a horse. She was practicing a scene for _"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992)_ (qv) .
• Owns a holiday house at Taupo on the shores of Lake Taupo, New Zealand.

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