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Lucy Lawless
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Born: Mar 29, 1968
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"Her courage will change the world"-- Xena: Warrior Princess. Lucy
was born Lucille Frances Ryan on March 29, 1968, in Mount Albert,
Auckland, New Zealand; she was the 5th of 7 children, of Frank and
Julie Ryan. Lucy enjoyed acting and appeared in many plays in high
school. Later, she attended Auckland University and studied German,
Italian and French for a year. As many young people from New
Zealand do, she then headed for her O.E. (that's "Overseas
Experience"). Lucy left college and headed for Europe where she and
her boyfriend, Garth Lawless, traveled around Switzerland and
Germany (to earn travel money, she picked grapes on the beautiful
Rhine, "for about 3 seconds" she said later in a TV interview).
Then Lucy and Garth headed to Australia to earn some more travel
money; they found work with a gold mining company outside of
Kalgoorlie, about 500 miles from Perth. Lucy and Garth were married
in Australia in 1988, and then returned to New Zealand where Lucy
had a daughter, Daisy. Lucy was chosen Mrs. New Zealand in 1989.
She did a "really bad, cheesy commercial for travel" which led to
her first real acting job in a New Zealand comedy troupe show
called "Funny Business." Later, Lucy landed the job as co-host for
Air New Zealand Holiday, a travel magazine. Lucy worked in numerous
television and film productions. Finally, she got her breakout role
of Lysia in "Hercules and the Amazon Women" (1994) (TV). Shortly
thereafter, the producers needed someone to play Xena. Lucy, tall
(5' 10-1/2"), athletic, with brown hair and blue eyes, was perfect
for the part. But there was a snag: at first, the producers (what
do they know?) did not want Lucy for the part of Xena-- after all,
she had played a different character already. So, Lucy dyed her
light hair a dark brown, making her look a bit different, and
history was ...[MORE]
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Lucy Lawless Nude and Sexy
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