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Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan on March
29, 1968 in Auckland, New Zealand), is a Kiwi
(people)|Kiwi actor|actress and singer best known
for her role as Xena on the television series
Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001.

Lucy was born the fifth child of Frank and Julie
Ryan. She discovered an enjoyment of acting in
high school. At Auckland University, she studied
foreign languages for a year. She then left for
Europe with her boyfriend to travel around Germany
and Switzerland. They went back and landed a job
with a mining company in Australia. In 1988, Lucy
and Garth Lawless were married. They returned to
New Zealand and had a daughter, Daisy.

In 1989 Lucy was selected as Miss New Zealand. She
would later be named one of the 50 Most Beautiful
People in the World by People magazine in 1997.

She had a guest role in 1990 on New Zealand TV
series Shark in the Park, around the same time
compatriot Karl Urban appeared. A testament to the
popularity of Xena: Warrior Princess is that
Lawless is a universally recognized celebrity even
though she has not had a single great success
outside of it. She was even immortalized as a
character on The Simpsons (playing a
super-powered, flying version of herself). She has
since appeared in the Vagina Monologues, on the
first two episodes of the ninth season of The
X-Files, and in the short-lived (eight episodes)
television series Tarzan. She has had brief
appearances in the movies Eurotrip, Spider-Man
(movie)|Spider-Man, and the horror film Boogeyman
(movie)|Boogeyman.  Her next role was on TV
battling bugs in her new TV-movie Locusts!.

Lucy and Garth were divorced in 1995. She married
the executive producer of Xena, Robert G. Tapert,
in 1998. The couple had a son in 1999 named Julius
Robert Bay Tapert. Lucy gave birth to her son in
New Zealand. Her third child, and second with
Robert Tapert, was born 2002 in New Zealand, and
named Judah Miro Tapert.

Due to her character Xena's ambiguous sexual
orientation|sexuality, Lucy Lawless gained a large
cult following in the lesbian community. A new
term, dykon, was coined to describe her status as
a gay icon. Although she is heterosexual, Lucy
Lawless has enhanced this reputation by appearing
at gay pride events such as the Sydney Gay and
Lesbian Mardi Gras.

== External links ==
*imdb name|id=0005128|name=Lucy Lawless
* http://r.webring.com/hub?ring=llwr&index Lucy
Lawless webring - a directory of fan sites
* http://lucyislawless.com Lucy is Lawless
* http://www.lucylawless.info/ AUSXIP Lucy Lawless
Files
* http://boxofbirds.ewlyn.com/ Box of Birds