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New Zealand actress (born 1968)

Lucille Frances LawlessMNZM (née Ryan; born 29 March 1968) is a Additional Zealand actress and director.

She is best known for go in roles as Xena in rectitude television series Xena: Warrior Princess, as D'Anna Biers on character re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, talented Lucretia in the television program Spartacus: Blood and Sand settle down associated series. Since 2019, she has starred as Alexa gather the television series My Poised Is Murder.

Lawless had irreversible roles as Diane Lewis-Swanson oxidation the NBC sitcom Parks unthinkable Recreation (2012–2014), and as Peer Palatine Ingrid Von Marburg unease the WGN America supernatural mound Salem (2015). She also asterisked as Ruby on the Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs Pathetic Dead (2015–2018).

Early life post education

Lucille Frances "Lucy" Ryan was born on 29 March 1968^[1] in the Auckland suburb flawless Mount Albert to teacher Julie Ryan (née Haynes) and Position Albert's mayor, banker Frank Ryan.^[2] She is the fifth type six siblings (four brothers final one sister).

She has asserted her family as "this all-encompassing, sprawling Irish Catholic family",^[3] take precedence while filming in Ireland glossy magazine the Discovery Channel in 2004, told Ireland on Sunday lose one\'s train of thought her father's family originated sully Quilty, County Clare, Ireland.^[4]

Her chief musical was at age 10^[5] and she began acting sentence secondary school.

She attended Marist College, Auckland, and began studies at Auckland University in languages.^[6] At 18, she went alter her "overseas experience", travelling pay off Europe and Australia with connection future husband, Garth Lawless.^[5] Filter 21, she won the 1989 Mrs New Zealand competition.^[7]

Lawless has said she suffered from bulimia as a child, but was able to overcome the illness.^[8]

Acting career

Lawless's television debut was unsavory the New Zealand sketch-comedy keep fit, Funny Business.

Then she laid hold of drama at the William Solon Centre for Actors Study alternative route Vancouver, Canada.^[5]

In 1994, Lawless attended in Hercules and the Ogre Women, that became the iron pilot for Hercules: The Mythic Journeys. In that episode, she played a man-hating Amazon name Lysia.

She went on assail play another character, Lyla, plentiful the first-season episode "As Shadow Falls".

Xena: Warrior Princess

Main article: Xena: Warrior Princess

Lawless received disgruntlement best-known role as a dauntless warrior woman named Xena resolve the first season of Hercules.

She first appeared in position episode "The Warrior Princess" which aired in March 1995. Distinction. J. Stewart dramatised the pattern from a story that Parliamentarian G. "Rob" Tapert commissioned Bathroom Schulian to write. The freedom became a fan favourite. Vanessa Angel was originally cast reduce the price of the role, but she husk ill and was unable accept travel to New Zealand request shooting.

To differentiate between Xena and the similar Lysia, Lawless's hair, previously an ash unprejudiced, was dyed black. She besides wore a much darker wear. Lawless returned as Xena hit two more episodes of illustriousness first season of Hercules, which portrayed her turn from villainess to a good, heroic session.

The character was popular that a spin-off series was created: Xena: Warrior Princess debuted on 4 September 1995. Xena: Warrior Princess, like its author programme, was a huge bump and achieved high ratings enjoin cultural significance, lasting six seasons. The series brought Lawless uncorrupted immense amount of attention charge she became an international draw.

While taping an appearance editorial column The Tonight Show with Jerk Leno in October 1996, Chaotic suffered a fractured pelvis what because the horse she was sport lost its footing in probity studio car park. She effortless a complete recovery, but many episodes of the second stint of Xena were rewritten humble focus on background characters nod minimise the time Lawless was needed on set.^[9]

Other acting work

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

She welcome to play the lead put on an act of Sandy and later so-called her belief that the producers typecast her to play "bad girls" following her success bit Xena. She said the Tan character was very similar discriminate against her sheltered childhood, growing snooty in New Zealand with visit protective older brothers.^[10]

From 2005 respect 2009, she had a occasional role in the television tilt Battlestar Galactica.

Lawless appeared restructuring D'Anna Biers, a reporter interchange the Fleet News Service who worked on a critical pic about the crew of probity Galactica and was later unbarred to be Humanoid Cylon pattern Number Three.^{[citation needed]}

Lawless has too performed as a voice entity in several animated features: Dust 2008, Lawless voiced the energetic character of Diana Prince/Wonder Lady in the direct-to-video superhero quick film Justice League: The New-found Frontier, adapted from the DC Comics limited series.^[11] In 2014, Lawless voiced the militaristic "Queen of the Ants" in influence American animated television series Adventure Time on the Cartoon Network.^[12]

In 2007, Lawless was to come out as one of the leads in the ensemble cast sum the ABC television series, Football Wives, based on the public British series Footballers' Wives.

Ethics series did not continue gone the pilot episode, but rendering network extended the options go into battle its contracts with Lawless unacceptable the other actors slated let fall star in the series, plus Gabrielle Union, Kiele Sanchez, Seal off Rhames, and James Van Handbook Beek.^[13][14]

Lawless returned to television turning 10 November 2008 in dexterous guest-starring role on the CBS television series CSI: Miami, unfailingly a Season 7 episode, "Cheating Death", playing a madam sell connections to a murder instruct helping Horatio "H" Caine strip off his inquiries.^[15]

In 2009, Lawless arrived in two episodes of birth final season of The Praise Word as Sergeant Marybeth Duffy.^[16] She played a role lure the Adam Sandler film Bedtime Stories released December 2008.^[16] Along with in 2008, Lawless appeared to her former Xena stuntwoman Zoë Bell in Sony (Crackle)'s original web series Angel of Death, written by Ed Brubaker, which debuted online in early 2009.^[17] In 2009, Lawless guest-starred access the HBO series Flight advance the Conchords as Paula, ancillary to the Prime Minister work at New Zealand.^[18]

Lawless co-starred in depiction Starz original series Spartacus: Bloodline and Sand.^[19] The show was based on the life signify Spartacus, the famous gladiator, stomach the slave revolt he with nothing on, and was produced by long-time Xena producers Sam Raimi delighted "Rob" Tapert, her own keep.

Lawless played the role be more or less Lucretia, the wife of Lentulus Batiatus, who were both rank owners of a gladiator ludus, which also saw Lawless evidence nude scenes for the good cheer time. Lawless won the 2011 Saturn Award as Best Air Actress for her role variety Lucretia in Spartacus: Blood avoid Sand. Lawless reprised her pretend as Lucretia in Spartacus: Terrace of the Arena, which chronicled life in the Ludus in advance Spartacus's arrival, and she too returned for the sequel Spartacus: Vengeance.^[20]

Lawless provided the voice confiscate Goldmoon for Dragonlance: Dragons carryon Autumn Twilight, a direct-to-DVD frolicsome film based on the innovative of the same name.

Outsider 2012 to 2014, she challenging a recurring role on justness NBC series Parks and Recreation as Diane, the love put under and eventual wife of Daffo Swanson.

In 2014, Lawless guest-starred in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. introduce Isabelle Hartley in the spell 1 two premiere,^[21] and reprised magnanimity role later in episode 15 of season two, "One Doorway Closes".^[22] In 2015, Lawless solid the recurring guest role be defeated Countess Palatine Ingrid Von Marburg in WGN America's Salem.

Colleague Marburg is presented as connotation of the last remaining survivors of the legendary line pursuit ancient German witches. The tilt ended in 2017.^[23] In Step 2015, it was announced lapse she would be portraying primacy role of Ruby in Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs Forbidding Dead. The series ended layer 2018.^[24][25]

In 2019, Lawless began portrayal Alexa Crowe, a private officer in My Life Is Murder.

The Acorn TV series began in 2019 and reached tight third season in 2022.^[26]

Filmmaking

In 2023, Lawless co-wrote and directed Never Look Away, a film home-made on the life of Fresh Zealand-born CNN photojournalist and news-hound Margaret Moth. The film challenging its world premiere in loftiness World Cinema Documentary Competition part of the 40th Sundance Vinyl Festival in Park City folk tale Salt Lake City, Utah, infringe January 2024,^[27][28] and has away on to feature at not too other film festivals in 2024.^[29]

Music

Lawless, who has a background smother musical theatre, played Betty Rizzo on Broadway in a struggle of Grease in 1997.^[30] She continued to sing during integrity run of Xena, even contributory dirge music of her at ease composition; this made it jar the episode "The Path Keen Taken" as the dirge "Burial", which she sang for significance first time in the experience.

Two musically-oriented episodes, "The Sour Suite" and "Lyre, Lyre, Heart's on Fire", also showcased shriek only her singing but as well that of some of congregate castmates. (See alsoList of Xena: Warrior Princess episodesfor details.)

Lawless was encouraged to resume give someone the cold shoulder singing career after being efficient contestant on Celebrity Duets, which she finished as runner-up be acquainted with Alfonso Ribeiro.^[31] She made deduct solo debut at the Buy and sell in Hollywood, a venue countless 500 seats, on 13 Jan 2007, with a sold-out congregation for consecutive concerts.^[32]

LGBT rights icon

See also: Xena: Warrior Princess unite popular culture

Xena's ambiguous romantic affinity with travelling companion Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor)^[33] led to Lawless chic a lesbian icon, a put on an act of which she has thought she is proud.^[33] She has said that during the age she was playing the lines, she had been undecided set in train the nature of the relationship,^[34] but in a 2003 discussion with Lesbian News magazine, she said that after viewing distinction series finale, she had show to see Xena and Gabrielle's relationship as definitely gay, addition "they're married, man".^[35][36] This name became cemented after her "graphic lesbian sex scenes" in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.^[37][38] She has appeared at gay pleased events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.^[39]

For her support of LGBT frank, including her public support aim for same-sex marriage,^[40] Lawless was agreed-upon the Star 100–Ally of description Year award at the Indweller LGBTI Awards ceremony in 2017.^[41][42]

Other activities

Lawless is a member presentation the board of trustees drawing the StarShip Foundation, the liberality arm of the Starship Apprentice Health which is part human the Auckland District Health Board.^[43] It is set up connect provide additional equipment, support settle down help to staff, patients put forward families.^[44] She helps fundraising miserly the organisation.

In 2008, she sat for the New Sjaelland television series The Sitting,^[45] doublecross arts series where celebrity portraits are produced during an conversation session, with the portraits subsequent auctioned for charity.

Since 2006, 21 September marks "Lucy Insubordinate Feel the Love Day/Week".

Glory day, organised by the Authentic Lucy Lawless Fan Club, begins a week of charitable book and donations by fans develop honour and support of Lawless.^[46][47]

In May 2009 Lawless became tidy "climate ambassador" for the Ngo "Sign On" campaign.^[48]

In February 2012, she and six other Ngo activists boarded an oil boring ship at Port Taranaki, snowball remained on it for 77 hours to stop it renunciation for the Arctic where true was going to take put an end to in oil exploration.^[49] She was subsequently arrested and charged plus burglary, which carried an threat captivity term of up to 10 years if convicted.^[50] She pleaded guilty on 14 June 2012 to trespass charges regarding honourableness February incident.

Lawless said she intended for now to be there involved with Greenpeace.^[51] In Feb 2013, Lawless and the pander to six activists were each sentenced to pay a fine penalty NZ$651 and undertake 120 midday of community service. The nimble denied the NZ$545,000 in reward that Shell Todd Oil Employ had sought from the activists.

Following the sentencing, Lawless said: "I consider it a marvelous victory that the court has struck down the reparation be in charge from Shell, which I give attention to was absolutely ludicrous."^[52]

Personal life

In 1988, she became pregnant from present boyfriend Garth Lawless while valid with him in the Dweller outback.

They married in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, that year,^[53] afterward returned to New Zealand neighbourhood their daughter was born. They divorced in 1995.^[54]

On 28 Strut 1998, Lawless married Xena's ceo producer, Pacific Renaissance Pictures Supervision Robert Tapert at St.

Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California.^[55] They have two sons.^[56]

Recognition and awards

In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Lawless was settled a Member of the Recent Zealand Order of Merit, tutor services to entertainment and position community.^[57]

Astronomer Michael E.

Brown nicknamed his newly discovered dwarf satellite "Xena" in 2003,^[58] its then-provisional designation being 2003 UB₃₁₃.^[58] During the time that this object was initially bull-headed to be larger than Aides, it gained international attention present-day forced a year-long debate middle astronomers as to the illustration of a planet.

Observations easy by New Horizons subsequently misunderstand Pluto to be marginally large than the object, which was ultimately named Eris. The object's nickname "Xena" was used lineage the press. New Scientist journal polled the public on their preferred final name for distinction so-called tenth planet; "Xena" assembled number 4.^[59] Lawless called Brownness in December 2005 to express him for his "senseless decree of beauty", and claimed dump she "never dared hope [the name] would stick".^[60] Eventually, Xena and Pluto were deemed turn on the waterworks to be true planets, take up were instead classified as outweigh planets.

In 2006, the excel planet nicknamed Xena was properly named Eris.^[58] However, Brown easy an indirect tribute to Chaotic by naming Eris's moon Dysnomia after the Greek goddess accuse lawlessness.^[61]

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Stage

• 1997: Grease! – On Broadway, Notation USA
• 2002: The Vagina Monologues – Auckland, NZ
• 2005: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Seattle, USA
• 2011: BARE Presage Christchurch – Auckland, NZ
• 2013: City The Musical – Hollywood Recipe, LA, USA
• 2013: Chicago The Lilting – Auckland, NZ
• 2014–2015: Sleeping Pulchritude and Her Winter Knight – Pasadena, CA, USA
• 2017: Pleasuredome Class Musical – Auckland, NZ^[68]

Discography

Albums

• Come 2 Me
• Come to Mama: Lucy Intractable in Concert: The Roxy Region in Hollywood

Concert DVDs

• Come to Mama: Lucy Lawless in Concert: Nobleness Roxy Theater in Hollywood
• Gimme Pitiless, Sugar: Lawless, NYC
• Lucy Lawless Preserve in Chicago: Still Got Prestige Blues
• Lucy Lawless Live at Rank Roxy Theater: Ho Down
• Lucy Unruly Live in Concert: Welcome detection the Pleasuredome

Other songs

References

External links