Lucille Francis Ryan

Lucy Lawless is a New Zealand actress best known for her starring role in the adventure film Xena, Warrior Princess, as well as in Eurotrip, Boogeyman, and Battlestar Galactica and Spartacus. In addition to making a career as an actress, Lucy is known as a singer of Broadway musicals, model and winner of the "Mrs. New Zealand" competition.

She was born on March 29, 1968 in a suburb of Oakland, a small town called Mount Albert. The nee future star's name was Lucille Francis Ryan, she was one of the six children of Mount Albert Mayor Frank Ryan, who also has a banking business, and his wife Julie, a school teacher. Lucy has four older brothers and one younger sister.

Before the girl went to school, she was a real tomboy and in no game was inferior to her brothers. Perhaps, it was with the aim of curbing the mischievous "boyish" character that the parents sent Lucy to school at the convent. The nuns managed to instill in the girl a love of English literature, and also, noticing good vocal abilities, began to give roles in school musicals. Therefore, Lucy Lawless performed on stage for the first time when she was still very young.

At the age of 17, the girl entered the Faculty of Philology at the University of Auckland, where she also continued to develop her singing skills in a student studio. But literally a year later, Lucy quits school and, together with her boyfriend, goes on a trip around the world. To feed themselves, the couple made small jobs, such as picking grapes on a farm, working in a mine, making maps of mines, and so on.

She returned home with her husband and the new name Lucy Lawless, by which the whole world would soon recognize her. And the first step on the road to fame was the beauty pageant for married women, which she won in 1989 and received the title "Mrs. New Zealand". In fact, she was only 21, so modeling agencies queued up to do a photo shoot for the girl. After a series of commercials, the young beauty hit the television screen.

Lucy Lawless was first seen by New Zealanders on the comedy show Funny Business, and then she began broadcasting Travel Magazine on Air New Zealand Holiday. Soon Lucy made a successful career as a film actress, but she did not forget about her work as a TV presenter. For example, in 2003, an actress on the Discovery Channel presented a series of documentaries under the general title “Warrior Women” to viewers. Each of the films told about a real-life warrior, with the main emphasis on their life outside the battlefields.

In addition, Lucy Lawless hosted the New Zealand Music Awards and took part in the popular American show Famous Duos, in which she took second place. After such success, she gave recitals in Roxy, New York and Chicago. Lucy performed many new songs, even tried a new musical genre for herself - R&B. It's also worth adding that Lucy has won the hearts of Broadway fans as Betty Rizzo from the theatrical production of Grease.

Lucy Lawless first appeared in feature films in 1990. At first, she got small roles, such as a nurse in the drama "Bitter Song" or the girl of one of the players in the sports melodrama "The End of the Golden Age". And then the actress got into the adventure fantasy "Hercules and the Amazons." Initially, in the pilot episode, she played the role of the villainess named Lissia, then turned into the centaur's friend Laila. And in the series itself, she had to replace the unexpectedly ill actress Vanessa Angel and appear in the form of the female warrior Zeta.

It took Lucy Lawless just three episodes of The Amazing Adventures of Hercules to win the hearts of viewers. The producers of the project immediately found additional financial opportunities and launched in parallel the series "Xena - Warrior Princess", where Lucy was already in the spotlight. This multi-part film has become very popular on all continents. However, the actress continued to appear in The Amazing Travels of Hercules for three years.

It is worth noting that in her most famous project "Xena - Warrior Princess" Lucy Lawless abandoned the understudy and performed all the tricks herself. For insurance, decorators covered the battlefield with gymnastic mats and then masked them with mud and grass. And for six years, the actress has not received a single injury on the set. But she faced a serious test live on the popular program "The Night Show with Jay Leno." Lucy in the guise of Xena was supposed to enter the studio on a horse, but the animal got scared, stumbled and, along with the rider, fell off the platform. The woman suffered a severe hip injury, which took almost a year to recover.

In the 21st century, the actress received many interesting proposals, but she decided to play only episodes in box-office projects. It was her principled choice, as Lucy Lawless believes that being briefly on screen requires more focus and more skill. She starred in one episode of "The X-Files", portrayed a punk girl in the blockbuster "Spiderman", transformed into an Amsterdam sex mistress in the youth comedy "Eurotrip", played the mother of the protagonist in the horror movie "Boogeyman".

Later, Lucy Lawless nevertheless accepted the invitation for the leading roles in the television movie "Locust Day", the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica" and the horror film "Deadly Flock". The adventure thriller "Spartak" was a great success. Lucy has appeared there in the form of Lucretia since the first season of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand". The actress also played this role in the prequel "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena".

To date, Lucy Lawless does not stop actively acting in films. She played Diana Lewis in the fifth and sixth seasons of the pseudo-documentary comedy Parks and Recreation, appeared in the superhero series Agents of SHIELD, turned into Countess Palatine Ingrid von Marburg from the historical mystical drama Salem.

For the past two years, Lucy Lawless has been an integral part of the black comedy series Ash vs. Evil Dead. She plays the role of Ruby Noby and, along with actors Bruce Campbell, Jill Marie Jones and Ray Santiago, is the protagonist of this horror parody.

While still a schoolgirl, Lucille Francis Ryan met and began dating a peer named Garth Lawless. It was with him that the girl went on a world journey and, during the voyage, married him in 1988. After the trip, Lucy Lawless and her husband settled in the Australian town of Kalgoorlie, but when it turned out that the future actress was expecting her first child, the family returned to Oakland. In New Zealand, Lucille gave birth to a daughter, Daisy.

The first marriage of the actress lasted until 1996. Due to the frequent absences of the wife associated with filming a movie, the relationship between Lucy and Garth began to deteriorate, and they decided to divorce. Two years later, Lucy Lawless becomes a married lady again. On the set of Xena: Warrior Princess, she meets one of the executive producers, Robert Tapert, and a romantic relationship is struck between them.

The wedding took place on March 28, 1998, and after a year and a half Lucy Lawless, who decided not to change her last name either after a divorce or after a new marriage, became a mother again. He and Robert had a son, Julius Robert Bay. Now Julius's younger brother, Jude Miro, who is three years younger than his brother, is also being raised in the family.

Lucy Lawless is an environmental activist for Greenpeace. In 2012, the actress, along with six like-minded people, hijacked an oil production vessel off the coast of New Zealand, which was supposed to be sent to drill wells off the coast of Alaska. Lucy Lawless and her comrades kept the ship under their control for more than three days and demanded that the "Chukchi Sea be left alone" until the police detained the activists and sentenced the accomplices to 120 hours of community service.

1995-1998 - The Amazing Wanderings of Hercules 1995-2001 - Xena - Warrior Princess 2003 - Tarzan 2005 - Boogeyman 2005 - Deadly Pack 2008 - Bedtime Stories 2005-2009 - Battlestar Galaktika 2010-2012 - Spartak 2012-2014 - Parks and Recreation Areas 2015-2016 - Ash vs. Evil Dead

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