Name: Lucy Lawless
Character Name: Xena
Birth Date: 31st March 1969
Birth Place: Auckland, New Zealand
Family: daughter Daisy, son Julius, husband Rob Tapert.

Biography Lucy Lawless was born Lucy Frances Ryan in Auckland, New Zealand. The fifth of seven children, Lucy has five brothers and one sister. Always keen to be an actress, Lucy struggled to achieve her goals. After working as a gold miner in Australia at age 19, Lucy married long time boyfriend Garth Lawless after getting pregnant. She returned to New Zealand where she had her baby daughter Daisy and worked on the travel show, Air New Zealand and had a number of small roles on tv and film. She came to the attention of Renaissance pictures and Robert Tapert when she was cast in the first Hercules TV movie, Hercules and the Amazon Women. Lucy played Lysia, the second in command and created a strong impression in a small role.

Bit parts on the Hercules tv series followed before she got the role of Xena after six other actresses had turned it down. Lucy divorced Garth Lawless during first season of Xena, and in 1998 married Executive Producer Robert Tapert, the day before her 30th birthday in Los Angeles. In October 1999 she gave birth to their first child Julius Robert Bay Tapert.

Lucy is 5 feet 10 and a half inches tall and her hair is naturally light brown/ash blonde. The blue eyes are completely genuine!

Character Description

Xena was first introduced in the Hercules TV series. it was the episode entitled, The Warrior Princess and Xena was out to kill Hercules by using his best friend Iolaus against him.

The character was so popular that soon it was decided to give Xena her own series. Born in Amphipolis, the daughter of Atrius and Cyrene Xena has two brothers, Toris and the now deceased Lyceus. After leading the defence of her town against the warlord Cortese, the young Xena got a taste for victory and built her own army to defend Amphipolis against its enemies. An encounter with Julius Caesar left her with broken legs and a burning desire for blood. After becoming one of the most feared warlords in Greece, an encounter with Hercules turned Xena around and put her on the road to redemption. With the help of Gabrielle, she now seeks to make up for all her past misdeeds.

Filmography

• Peach (1995)
• Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994) (TV) .... Lysia
• Typhon`s People (1993) (TV) .... Mink Tertius
• Rainbow Warrior, The (1992) .... Jane Redmond
• End of the Golden Weather, The (1991) .... Joe`s Girl
• "For the Love of Mike" (1991) TV Series .... Helen
• Bitter Song, A (1990) .... Nurse 1 Within the Law (1990) .... Verity

TV Appearances

• "Just Shoot Me"(2001)
• "Simpsons, The" playing "Herself"(voice) in episode: "Treehouse of Horror X" (episode # 11.4) 10/31/1999
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Alterno-Xena" in episode: "Armageddon Now II" (episode # 4.14) 2/16/1998
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Xena2" in episode: "Stranger In A Strange World" (episode # 4.5) 10/27/1997
• "Something So Right" playing "Herself" in episode: "Something About Inter-Ex-Spousal Relations" (episode # 1.23) 4/29/1997
• "Hercules:The Legendary Journeys" playing "Xena" in episode: "Judgement Day" (episode # 3.15) 2/17/1997
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Lyla" in episode: "Outcast" (episode # 2.5) 10/9/1995
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Xena" in episode: "Unchained Heart, The" (episode # 1.13) 5/8/1995
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Xena" in episode: "Gauntlet, The" (episode # 1.12) 5/1/1995
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Xena" in episode: "Warrior Princess, The" (episode # 1.9) 3/13/1995
• "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" playing "Lyla" in episode: "As Darkness Falls" (episode # 1.6) 2/20/1995
• "High Tide" playing "Sharon List" in episode: "Dead In the Water" (episode # 1.17) 2/18/1995
• "High Tide" playing "undercover policewoman" in episode: "Shanghaied" 1995
• "Ray Bradbury Theatre, The" playing "Liddy Barton" in episode: "Fee Fie Foe Fum" (episode # 6.13) 10/28/1992
• "The Black Stallion" playing "Sarah McFee" in episode: "Riding the Volcano" 1992
  

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