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Also known as Lucille Frances Lawless, Lucille Ryan

New Zealand actress

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Lucy Lawless is a New Zealand actress best known for her role as Xena in the action-adventure television series "Xena: Warrior Princess." She became an internationally recognized figure through this role and has continued to work in television and film throughout her career.

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Acting · Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Lucy Lawless, born Lucille Frances Ryan on March 29, 1968, in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand, is an actress, singer, and activist. She gained international recognition and became an iconic figure for her role as Xena in the television series "Xena: Warrior Princess." Lawless began her acting career in New Zealand, initially appearing in various local productions. However, it was her…

Known for

  • Pike River — Helen Kelly2025
  • Spartacus: House of Ashur — Lucretia2025
  • Other Men's Careers — Self2023
  • Antarctica from Above — Narrator2022
  • Minions: The Rise of Gru — Nun-Chuck (voice)2022
  • Mothers of the Revolution — Self2021
  • The Spine of Night — Tzod (voice)2021
  • Mr. Corman — Cheryl2021
  • Drag Race Down Under — Self - Guest Judge2021
  • Toke — Duke2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
New Zealand
Active from
1968

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,152
Total plays
30,605

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New Zealand Actress. Originally wanting to be an opera singer (until she realized what a strict lifestyle you have to lead for that), Lucy Lawless is famous for her lead role in "Xena: Warrior Princess". Over the course of the series' six seasons, Lawless' musical talent was noticable in the two musical episodes, "The Bitter Suite" and "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire", where her voice was one of the few not dubbed, and a handful of other songs such as Eve's Lullaby and The Burial Song. <a href="htt

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

    · 2009 · cited 22,576x

  2. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,461x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,617x

  4. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

    · 2016 · cited 15,452x

  5. Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

    · 2013 · cited 8,809x

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Official website

AUSXIP Lucy Lawless - Australian Lucy Lawless News Á Multimedia Site

Dedicated to Xena, Ash Vs Evil Dead actress Lucy Lawless with the latest news and multimedia

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Ryan
Gender
female
Citizenship
New Zealand
Place of birth
Mount Albert
Occupation
film director
Languages spoken
English language
Eye colour
sky blue
Instrument
voice
Official website
lucylawless.net
Image
Lucy Lawless in 2016.jpg
Number of children
3
Residence
Auckland
Voice type
contralto
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Commons category
Lucy Lawless
date of birth
1968-03-29
birth name
Lucille Frances Ryan
start of work period
1989-00-00
social media followers
314237
name in native language
Lucy Lawless
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Encyclopedic overview

Lucille Frances Lawless MNZM (née Ryan; born 29 March 1968) is a New Zealand actress, singer, and director. She is best known for her roles as Xena in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, as D'Anna Biers on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, and Lucretia in the television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and associated series. Since 2019, she has starred as Alexa in the television series My Life Is Murder.

Lawless had recurring roles as Diane Lewis-Swanson on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2012–2014), and as Countess Palatine Ingrid von Marburg on the WGN America supernatural series Salem (2015). She also starred as Ruby on the Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs Evil Dead (2015–2018).

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