Lucy Lawless

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Lawless at San Diego Comic-Con 2012

Lucy Lawless , MNZM (* 29. March 1968 in Mount Albert , Auckland as Lucille Frances Ryan ) is a New Zealand actress , film producer and singer .

life and career

Lawless in January 2007
Lawless at San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010.

Lucy Lawless was born the fifth of seven children to Frank and Julie Ryan. She gained her first experience of acting during her school days and after a short-term attempt to train as an opera singer, she decided to study languages ​​at the University of Auckland . After a year she dropped out of her studies to travel to Germany and Switzerland with her future husband Garth Lawless . The couple then moved to Australia , where Lawless worked in a gold mine, and then back to New Zealand.

At the age of 19, she married Garth Lawless in 1988 and that year they both had a daughter. This marriage was divorced in 1995 and on March 28, 1998 she married the producer of the Xena and Hercules series Robert Gerad Tapert , with whom she has two sons (* 1999 and * 2002).

Career

After supporting roles in New Zealand television series and small films, Lawless completed an acting training at the William Davis Center for Actors Study in Vancouver in 1991 . Her role in attacking the Rainbow Warrior made her known outside of New Zealand.

The role of Xena should then ensure the greatest boost in awareness of her career so far . Lawless impersonated this character from 1995, first in the US television series Hercules . In the same year launched the first as Hercules - a spin-off brought out series Xena - Warrior Princess , 134 episodes were produced from the total to 2001.

Lawless then appeared in various guest roles, for example in Spider-Man and in individual episodes of the television series The X-Files - The Uncanny Cases of the FBI (2001) and Tarzan (2003). She received a new regular role from the second season as number three / D'Anna Biers in the television series Battlestar Galactica .

An offer from the director Peter Jackson for the role of Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: She refused the companions because of their pregnancy , otherwise the production would have had to be postponed.

In the first two seasons of the television series Spartacus she played a leading role again, the fictional character of "Lucretia", the dominatrix of the gladiator school, in which Spartacus is trained as a gladiator.

Filmography

Discography

  • Come 2 Me
  • Come To Mama: Lucy Lawless In Concert: The Roxy Theater In Hollywood

Others

The dwarf planet 2003 UB313 received the working name Xena from its discoverer Michael E. Brown after the character embodied by Lawless. His final name is Eris . Its moon received the name Dysnomia , the Greek goddess of lawlessness (Engl. Lawlessness ), which is a direct tribute to Lawless, according to Brown.

Awards (selection)

  • 1997: People : The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World - Miss New Zealand
  • 1997: Saturn Award: Best Genre TV Actress for Xena - Die Kriegerprinzessin (nominated)
  • 2010: Golden Nymph: Outstanding Actress - Drama Series for Spartacus: Blood and Sand (nominated)
  • 2010: Saturn Award: Best Supporting Actress on Television for Spartacus: Blood and Sand
  • 2016: Fangoria Chainsaw Awards: Best Supporting Actress on Television for Salem (nominated)

Web links

Commons : Lucy Lawless  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lucy Lawless biography on lucylawless.info
  2. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  3. ↑ David Tytell : All Hail Eris and Dysnomia . Skytonight , September 14, 2006; archived from the original on October 19, 2006 ; accessed on May 25, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
personal data
SURNAME Lawless, Lucy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryan, Lucille Francis (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand actress, film producer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Albert , Auckland , New Zealand