46 Facts About Lucy Lawless

Lucille Frances Lawless is a New Zealand actress and singer.

Lucy Lawless is best known for her roles as Xena in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, as D'Anna Biers on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, and Lucretia in the television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and associated series.

Lucy Lawless had recurring roles as Diane Lewis-Swanson on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, and as Countess Palatine Ingrid Von Marburg on the WGN America supernatural series Salem.

Lucy Lawless starred as Ruby on the Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs Evil Dead.

Lucy Lawless has described her family as "this big, sprawling Irish Catholic family", and while filming in Ireland for the Discovery Channel in 2004, told Ireland on Sunday that her father's family originated in Quilty, County Clare.

Lucy Lawless attended Marist College, Auckland, and began studies at Auckland University in languages.

Lucy Lawless has said she suffered from bulimia as a child, but was able to overcome the illness.

In 1994, Lucy Lawless appeared in Hercules and the Amazon Women, that became the television pilot for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Lucy Lawless went on to play another character, Lyla, in the first-season episode "As Darkness Falls".

Lucy Lawless received her best-known role as a heroic warrior woman named Xena in the first season of Hercules.

Lucy Lawless first appeared in the episode "The Warrior Princess" which aired in March 1995.

Lucy Lawless returned as Xena in two more episodes of the first season of Hercules, which portrayed her turn from villainess to a good, heroic character.

Lucy Lawless 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's ambiguous romantic relationship with travelling companion Gabrielle led to Lucy Lawless becoming a lesbian icon, a role of which she has said she is proud.

Lucy Lawless has said that during the years she was playing the role, she had been undecided on the nature of the relationship, but in a 2003 interview with Lesbian News magazine, she said that after viewing the series finale, she had come to see Xena and Gabrielle's relationship as definitely gay, adding "they're married, man".

Lucy Lawless has appeared at gay pride events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Lucy Lawless first appeared on Broadway in September 1997 in the Grease revival, as the "bad girl" character Betty Rizzo.

Lucy Lawless wanted to play the lead role of Sandy and later stated her belief that the producers typecast her to play "bad girls" following her success as Xena.

Lucy Lawless said the Sandy character was very similar to her sheltered childhood, growing up in New Zealand with many protective older brothers.

Lucy Lawless appeared as D'Anna Biers, a reporter with the Fleet News Service who worked on a critical documentary about the crew of the Galactica and was later revealed to be Humanoid Cylon model Number Three.

Lucy Lawless competed as one of the celebrity singers on the Fox reality TV show Celebrity Duets in 2006, finishing as the runner-up to winner Alfonso Ribeiro.

In 2014, Lucy Lawless voiced the militaristic "Queen of the Ants" in the American animated television series Adventure Time on the Cartoon Network.

In 2007, Lucy Lawless was to appear as one of the leads in the ensemble cast of the ABC television series, Football Wives, based on the popular British series Footballers' Wives.

Lucy Lawless returned to television on 10 November 2008 in a guest-starring role on the CBS television series CSI: Miami, in a Season 7 episode, "Cheating Death", playing a madam with connections to a murder and helping Horatio "H" Caine with his inquiries.

In 2009, Lucy Lawless appeared in two episodes of the final season of The L Word as Sergeant Marybeth Duffy.

Lucy Lawless played a role in the Adam Sandler movie Bedtime Stories released December 2008.

In 2009, Lucy Lawless guest-starred in the HBO series Flight of the Conchords as Paula, assistant to the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Lucy Lawless co-starred in the Starz original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Lucy Lawless played the role of Lucretia, the wife of Lentulus Batiatus, who were both the owners of a gladiator ludus, which saw Lucy Lawless doing nude scenes for the first time.

Lucy Lawless won the 2011 Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lucretia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Lucy Lawless reprised her role as Lucretia in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, which chronicled life in the Ludus before Spartacus's arrival, and she returned for the sequel Spartacus: Vengeance.

Lucy Lawless provided the voice of Goldmoon for Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, a direct-to-DVD animated movie based on the novel of the same name.

In 2014, Lucy Lawless guest starred in Agents of Shield as Isabelle Hartley in the season two premiere, and reprised the role later in episode 15 of season two, 'One Door Closes.

Lucy Lawless is currently playing Alexa Crowe, a private investigator in My Life Is Murder.

Lucy Lawless, who has a background in musical theatre, played Betty Rizzo on Broadway in a production of Grease in 1997.

Lucy Lawless 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 Lawless was encouraged to resume her singing career after being a contestant on Celebrity Duets, which she finished as runner-up to Alfonso Ribeiro.

Lucy Lawless made her solo debut at the Roxy in Hollywood, a venue of 500 seats, on 13 January 2007, with a sold-out crowd for consecutive concerts.

Lucy Lawless is a member of the board of trustees of the StarShip Foundation, the charity arm of the Starship Children's Health which is part of the Auckland District Health Board.

Lucy Lawless recently sat for the New Zealand television series The Sitting, an arts series where celebrity portraits are produced during an interview session, with the portraits later auctioned for charity.

In May 2009 Lucy Lawless became a "climate ambassador" for the Greenpeace "Sign On" campaign.

Lucy Lawless was arrested and charged with burglary, which carried an imprisonment term of up to 10 years if convicted.

Lucy Lawless pleaded guilty on 14 June 2012 to trespass charges regarding the February incident.

Lucy Lawless said she intended for now to remain involved with Greenpeace.

In 1988, she became pregnant from her boyfriend Garth Lucy Lawless while working with him in the Australian outback.

On 28 March 1998, Lucy Lawless married Xena's executive producer, Pacific Renaissance Pictures CEO Robert Tapert.