Lucy Lawless

Name: Lucy Lawless
Date of Birth: March 29, 1968
Place of Birth: Mount Albert, New Zealand

Mini-bio: Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan) is a New Zealand actress and singer best known for her role as Xena on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001.

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Lucy Lawless Bio

Actress, singer, mother and charity worker, Lucy Lawless is the first daughter of Frank (former mayor of Mount Albert, now Chairman of Finance for Auckland City) and Julie Ryan (homemaker and active volunteer in their community). Having 4 older brothers, Lucy often played rough and according to her mother, didn't realise she was a girl until she was 8. Lucy loved horse riding and at school she was always picked to play the main part in plays and musicals.

Lucy had a wonderful singing voice and friends and family were hoping she would pursue her talent. So after graduating high school in 1985, Lucy set her sights on becoming an opera singer, while studying languages (German, French and Italian) at Auckland University she signed up for private voice lessons. But a structural approach to singing killed Lucy's enjoyment and natural urge to sing, yet she wasn't discouraged from pursuing a show business career and found work in Auckland modeling and acting. Her first job was a commercial for Git Away Tours in 1986 where she made $3,500. Lucy dropped out of college at 18 and used this money to buy a one way ticket to Europe with her boyfriend and future husband Garth Lawless. The pair travelled to places such as Switzerland, Germany and Australia where they worked briefly as gold miners. At 19 Lucy fell pregnant and returned to New Zealand where she gave birth to her daughter Daisy.

After the birth of her daughter Lucy returned to work, TV commercials, writing and acting in plays, and 2 and a half seasons in 'Funny Business' before moving to Vancouver to attend the William B. Davis Centre for Actors Study. Lucy returned to New Zealand in 1992, appeared in 'The Rainbow Warrior' and co-hosted a travel show 'Air New Zealand Holiday', but she didn't want to do that forever, so continued to audition for dramatic roles. In 1994 American producers were in New Zealand filming a series of 5 films based on the mythological hero Hercules. Producers Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi needed a woman to play the Amazon Queen 'Hippolyta' in the first installment 'Hercules and the Amazon Women'. Lucy auditioned and was a finalist for the part, as much as producers liked Lucy they were afraid to cast a kiwi in such an important role and she lost out to Roma Downey. Although Lucy didn't get the lead, she played the Queen's second in command 'Lysia'. The 5 movies were unexpected hits and were made into a weekly show, Lucy quit her travel show to play two different roles, 'Lyla' in episode 6 'As Darkness Falls' and after dying her hair dark, 'Xena' in episodes 9 'The Warrior Princess', 12 'The Gauntlet' and 13 (season finale) 'Unchained Heart', now known as the Xena Trilogy.

By the third episode of the trilogy it was obvious to producers that they were setting up a spin-off, Universal were excited about the prospect of a series centering around a female action hero and so the show and Lucy's breakthrough role Xena: Warrior Princess was born. 1995 marked a time of change for Lucy, her career was gaining speed, Xena was on fire and had established it's own fan base with men and women alike, but her marriage to Garth Lawless ended. The show ran from 1995 until its two part season 6 finale in 2001, during this time Lucy married Xena producer Robert Tapert in 1998 and had her first son Julius in 1999, made her Broadway debut as Rizzo in Grease in 1997, hosted Saturday Night Live in 1998 and appeared on The Simpsons in 1999. Lucy's groundbreaking role as Xena captured a global audience and redefined the role of the female action hero, launching her into international fame.

Since then Lucy had her second son Judah in 2002. She has appeared in 'Just Shoot Me' 2001, 'The X Files' 2001, the short lived series 'Tarzan' 2003, 'Less Than Perfect' 2004, Eurotrip 2004 and a cameo in 'Spider-man' 2002. More recently she starred in Battlestar Galactica from 2005-2008 as D'Anna Biers and the movies Locusts and Vampire Bats (both 2005) among others.

Lucy appeared in Celebrity Duets in 2006 and was the runner up, since then she has branched out her career to include more singing, she released her first album come2me in 2007 and does regular concerts, including one in LA 2007 which was sold out.

Lucy regularly attends Xena conventions with co-star Renee O'Connor and other cast members, does concerts, and continues to do her charity work. Lucy will be appearing in 2008's Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler, 2009's Bitch Slap and Angel of Death.

Relationships:

Garth Lawless: Married 1988 - Divorced 1995 (1 daughter)
Robert G. Tapert: Married March 28 1998 - present (2 sons)

Children

Daisy Lawless:
Born July 15 1988 in New Zealand

Julius Robert Bay Tapert:
Born October 16 1999 in Auckland, New Zealand
Lucy named him Julius because it was a family name both in her own family and in Rob's. She let Daisy give him his middle name, she chose Bay which is Gaelic for someone who is born on Saturday.

Judah Miro Tapert:
Born May 7 2002 in Auckland, New Zealand

LL: "In addition to Daisy, who is experiencing all the joys and horrors of the early teen years, I have Julius Tapert, who's in the terrible twos. Then there's sweet little Judah Miro Tapert, my new baby. They're my greatest blessings." - Lucy Lawless interview 2002

Tiny little interview with Lucy on the Bedtime Stories red carpet

See Lucy:

THE OFFICIAL XENA CONVENTION THE 15TH YEAR
LOS ANGELES, CA
Fri., Sat. & Sun.
February 5-7, 2010
Los Angeles Marriott at LAX
5855 West Century Blvd.

Vital Stats
Lucy Lawless Information

Full Name:

Lucille Frances Ryan (Lawless) (Tapert)

Height:

5' 9.5 (confirmed by Lucy in Zap2It interview)

Eyes:

Crystal Blue

Hair:

"Mousy" Blonde (naturally)
LL: "Ash blonde, which is what we used to call Mousey. (Laughs) Tawny mouse!"

Star Sign:

Western - Aries
Chinese - Monkey

Nickname(s):

Luce, LL, Flawless

Notable feature(s):

Cheekbones, Blue eyes, Kiwi accent

Nationality:

New Zealander (Kiwi)

Education:

Marist College, Mount Albert, NZ
Auckland University, NZ
William Davis Centre for Actors Study, Vancouver, BC

Family:

Father: Frank Ryan
Mother: Julie Ryan
Brothers: 5 (4 older)
Sisters: Josie Ryan (younger)
Husband: Robert Tapert
Daughters: Daisy Lawless
Sons: Julius Robert Bay Tapert, Judah Miro Tapert
LL: "I have 5 brothers and 1 sister. We're this big, sprawling Irish Catholic family. I don't live that far from any of them."

Resides in:

Auckland, New Zealand & Los Angeles, CA, USA

Religious affiliations:

Catholic

Interests/hobbies:

Fishing, running, hiking, singing, Lyengar (Yoga)

Languages:

English, German, French and Italian
LL: "I speak good German, okay French but poor Italian. I hate that I'm not better at languages."

Charities/Causes:

Board member of the Starship Foundation

World Vision

Breast Cancer Research

Breastfeeding Awareness

Safe and Sound Appeal

Gilda's Club

Pediatric Epilepsy Project

The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation

Los Angeles' AIDS Project

Puawaitahi

The Trevor Project

Hurricane Katrina

Help is on the Way

Project Angel Food

GLASS

Causes:

AIDS
Cancer
Children
Health

Family/Parent Support
Grief Support
Physical Challenges

LL: "That concept of giving to those less fortunate has been deeply ingrained in me and it's a pleasure to be able to give my voice to help organisations like World Vision."

Other:

Awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit, Queen's Birthday Honours 2004, for services to NZ entertainment and the community

Lucy Lawless Trivia

Lucy was crowned 'Miss New Zealand' in 1989

Favourite actresses are Helen Mirren and Susan Sarandon.
LL: "Susan Sarandon and Helen Mirren are my mentors. They're sensual, fiercely intelligent and bloody good at their jobs."

Favourite music includes The Greateful Dead, KD Lang, Nina Simone, Lyle Lovett and jazz.

Lucy modelled Xena on Argentinian tennis player Gabriela Sabatini.
LL: " I modelled Xena on her. She's how a warrior princess ought to look."

Lucy often says that she thinks her fans are amazing and have given meaning to her career. One reason for this is 'Lucy Lawless Feel the Love Week/Day' by which she feels "totally humbled"

Favourite word is "bugger!"
Least favourite word is "loser"
Favourite curse word is "knickers!"

Was asked by Peter Jackson to audition for the role of 'Galadriel' in Lord of the Rings', but declined because her pregnancy would have stalled production.

Would like to attempt forensics if she wasn't an actress.

The job she would least like to do is chicken-sexing.
LL: "Reportedly the most stressful job of all. Ahead of even flight-controller."

Loves the sound of laughter and hates the sound of a kitchen fan.
LL: "Bad frequency for me. Can't hear anything else."

Fractured her pelvis when she was thrown from a horse while preparing for a skit for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1996.

Loves New Zealand fashion, the outfits she wears to premieres/special events are often by New Zealand designers

One of her pet hates is hair dye.
LL: "I'm naturally fair haired. It was really brutal on my hair to dye it raven black for Xena."

Would never be a bond girl.
LL: "It wouldn't suit me at all. I'd want to be James Bond"

Released her first album, come2me in 2007.

Lucy played eight recurring or important characters
on Hercules:TLJ and Xena: WP, Xena, Lysia, Lyla,
Princess Diana, Meg, Leah, Mel and Annie. This doesn't include disguises, impersonations, clones or
fairy tale stories.

The first thing she bought with her money from Xena: Warrior Princess was a Mercedes.

Lucy was caught in hurricane Katrina while filming 'Vampire Bats'. When she fled New Orleans a stranger let them stay in their house until the storm had passed.

While filming XWP Lucy wasn't allowed to wear her wedding ring (which cost $40,000) so she kept it pinned or tied up to her underwear to always keep it with her.

Lucy sat in the studio audience for an episode of 'Will & Grace' while she was in NY filming a guest appearance on 'Less Than Perfect' as she wanted to see what it was like to be in a live audience

Lucy and Rob flew out to NY to watch the Evil Dead Musical play.

Lucy has bungee jumped out of a helicopter and off of the Sky Tower in Auckland, NZ.

Inadvertently exposed her breasts while singing the US national anthem at an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, California between the Mighty Ducks and Detroit Red Wings.
LL: "Obviously, I was mortified...It was quite a bit more exposure than I want."

Lucy rarely had moments on 'Xena' when she put her foot down and said they couldn't do something. But once when her regular stunt double was busy they asked another woman to fill in. The stuntie didn't mention to the crew that she was 6 months pregnant, but when Lucy saw who they'd gotten she stopped the production. She said that she had stunties to take risks for her when she was pregnant, but she couldn't allow a pregnant woman to take them for her.

Lucy's favourite episode of Xena is "Is There a Doctor in
the House?".

While guest starring on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Lucy stated that Larry David was quite standoffish, but she was determined to be as obnoxious as possible, so she wrote 'Welcome to the Lucy Lawless Experience' on the back of a Xena greeting card (which when opened screams out the Xena war cry) and gave it to Larry. She said he "loved me ever after. So my advice to anyone trying to get on Larry's good side: Have your own Hallmark card."

Contact Lucy Lawless

Email

lucylawlessfanclub@dslextreme.com
This is the official Lucy Lawless fan club contact email address, where Lucy regularly visits and posts blogs.

Lucy's Agency in the US (Snail Mail)

Endeavor Talent Agency
9601 Wilshire Boulevard Floor 3
Beverly Hills, California 90210
USA

Lucy Links

Lots more Lucy Links on the biography sub page below.

More information on Lucy's career, relationships, awards, lots of website links, Lucy quotes and character quotes in the sub pages.

"Thank you darlings, thanks for giving me everything, it was amazing,
god bless you mwah" - Lucy
(thanking the fans for their support after celebrity duets 2006)

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Lucy as Xena in Season 1: Ep 'The Black Wolf'

Singing Lucy

Come2Me

'Come to Me' - Eric Kupper Summer Mix

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Come to Me - ft. RuPaul (Prod. Nic. tenBroek)
Let it Whip (Prod. Nic. tenBroek)
Come To Me - Solar City Sunset Mix
Come To Me - Solar City Radio Mix
Come To Me - Eric Kupper Summer Mix
Come To Me - Eric Kupper Radio Mix

To get the album click Here

Come To Mama
"Live" at the Roxy 2007

Lucy Lawless "Live" at the Roxy 2007 CD Back Cover

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Feeling Good
Jump Into My Fire
Total Control
Maxine
Don't Let Me Down
Like the Way I Do
Do You Want to Dance
Never Pass This Way Again
Something to Talk About
Piece of My Heart
Tell Mama
What'd I Say?
I'll Stand By You
Pull Up to the Bumper
Drive My Car

Recorded Live at the world famous ROXY Nightclub in Hollywood January of 2007, the incredible Lucy Lawless debuts her "Come to Mama" Concert before a sold-out audience of enthusiastic fans. This live recording captures all of the excitement of the evening.

To get the album click Here

Unexpected Dreams
Songs from the Stars

Little Child

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Summertime - Scarlett Johansson
The Sweetest Gift - Ewan McGregor
In My Daughter's Eyes - Taraji P. Henson
My Heart Is So Full of You - Jennifer Garner
To Make You Feel My Love - Jeremy Irons
Goodnight My Angel - John Stamos
Little Child - Lucy Lawless
The Wish Song - Marissa Jaret Winokur
The Greatest Discovery - Eric McCormack
No One Is Alone - Victor Garber
The Nightshift - Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Golden Slumbers - Nia Vardalos
Lullaby In Ragtime - John C. Reilly
Goodnight - Teri Hatcher

To get the album click Here

The Bitter Suite

The Love of Your Love

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Sweat Hut/Slapped Out of It/Xena's in Town
Horrible Drag/On the Edge/Song of the Fool
What's Still Unwritten... (Song of Illusia) /Little Ditties/Intro
War and Peace/Gab Is Stabbed
Melt into Me/Let Go
Dead?/Hearts Are Hurting Pt. 1
Deliverer
Hate Is the Star (Song of the Torment) /Hearts Are Hurting, Pt. 2
Way Out/The Love of Your Love/Passing Through

To get the album click Here

Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire

Tara's Dance	We Can Work It Out
Sisters Are Doin' It

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Sisters Are Doin' It
Dancin' In The Moonlight
We Can Work It Out
Gettin' Ready
No Talent To Find
Spurned
Kick Out The Jams
People Got To Be Free
Throwing Kisses
Always Something There To Remind Me
Xena Feeds Back
Xena Rap
At Long Last Lyre
War
Tara's Dance
Chertomlik Dance Party
Greiving Dance
Meditation
Honey and Wine
Amazon Dance Party

To get the album click Here

Xena Vol. 1

Burial

Tracklisting:

Burial

The album itself has 30 tracks, but 'Burial' (track 5) is the only one that is sung and also written by Lucy. The song was used frequently throughout all 6 seasons of 'Xena Warrior Princess'. According to Lucy, the tune came to her one day whilst jogging and is just a mixture of mournful words, she recorded it onto a tape recorder and gave it to the shows composer Joseph LoDuca who made it into a useable piece of music
LoDuca: "That's an interesting story. Lucy gave a cassette of her singing a melody she made up to our producer, Rob Tapert. To the best of my knowledge, the lyrics are Hassidic."

To get the album click Here

LUCY LAWLESS at The Roxy 2007 "Come to Mama"

LUCY LAWLESS Live In New York DVD (GIMME SOME SUGAR)

For official Lucy concert merchandise incuding DVDs of the live events click Here

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"It's better to flame out than to chicken out"
- Lucy Lawless -

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crashandburn4life

still toying with this idea) for the rets of the first episode and the next maybe 2, and they have to complete some task/quest/obtain something/etc before being sent back to Ancient Greece -where they will be taken back to a time before the twilight and whatnot. (we still havent fully decided on all of this but so far this is the general idea)
in a Later episode we also plan to bring Callisto's sister into it --we're going to have it that she escaped the fire and harbours a great anger towards Callisto for not trying to save her or their parents from the fire (or something along those lines)

So yeah...any Suggestions/ideas/or If your interested message me or email Or post here (which is probably easier :P )

The main Character we really need atm is someone to play Gabrielle...but we also have a list of other characters that we need -which we will add to once we plan out future eps

-- Also we will be leaning towards Subtext/Maintext kind of episodes and Scenes --

posted 115 days ago
crashandburn4life

XENA FANS
Some friends of mine and i are making our own Season7, and we were wondering if anyone lived around Wollongong/Sydney (NSW,Australia) And wanted to be in it, as a main character,extra, or lesser character or even to film it Or if anyone had any ideas for episodes, we wanted to get some outside ideas as to episodes...we're bringing Xena back to life (of course) and most likely find a way to send Xena and Gabrielle back to a time before the twilight, so we can bring back our old favs.. then general idea for the first episode is That Gabrielle arrives in Egypt, meets up with Cleopatra who takes her to see Anubis (probably at a temple or such) who agrees to bring Xena back in a way that all those souls will still be redeemed. But of course the God has a price, he not only brings back Xena, but also Callisto (evil Callisto, as my friend wants to be callisto in it and it was us two who decided to make the season 7). We are going to have them taken to the future (although we're st

posted 115 days ago
rockinmuhway

love your acting!
especially as Xena hehe

love you!!

posted 180 days ago
JennifairyW

posted 180 days ago

goldenretrever4

i cant wait untill bedtime stories comes out as soon as it is in theatres im going to watch it its going to be awsome

posted 232 days ago
JennifairyW

Trailer: Bitch Slap
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(in the video gallery)

posted 232 days ago
havicdragon

I love your show. I hated when they killed you off. If they was going to take Xena off the air they should've had you do something besides killing you!!!!

posted 240 days ago
poohtiger

Been a fan ever since Xena. Lucy Lawless is amazing. I bet she is awesome in person.

posted 263 days ago
Lyssy78

Oh yeah and I totally stole all of the icons on this page, hope that's ok

That squirrel vid is too cute :)(forgot to say all that)

posted 267 days ago
Lyssy78

I love Lucy =)
Loved, actually still love Xena
This page is very well done and there's so much information that I never knew about. The link in the 'Trivia section' that shows Lucy's 'mishap' at the game huhh :o i never knew that.

Anyway, can't wait to see Lucy in Bedtime Stories and Bitch Slap, yay.

C'mon people where is the love, leave some comments for the woman, she's amazing ;)

posted 267 days ago