Lucy Lawless
Biography
Lucy Lawless is a New Zealand actress, a singer, and a director. Born in Mount Albert, Auckland, she made her television debut in the sketch comedy Funny Business and later studied drama in Vancouver. In 1994 she appeared in Hercules and the Amazon Women, the pilot for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and she went on to play the warrior Xena, a popular character who inspired the six-season spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess. Her other roles include D'Anna Biers on Battlestar Galactica, Lucretia on Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which won her a 2011 Saturn Award, Diane on Parks and Recreation, and Alexa in My Life Is Murder since 2019. She voiced Wonder Woman in Justice League: The New Frontier (2008), appeared in Bedtime Stories (2008), and co-wrote and directed the documentary Never Look Away, which premiered at Sundance in 2024.
58years old
Turns 59 on March 29in 168 days
- Born Mount Albert
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Lucille Frances Ryan (birth name)Also credited as Lucille Frances Lawless and Lucille Ryan
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 28 years1994 to 2022
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First role
Lawless first appeared on Broadway in September 1997, playing Betty Rizzo, the "bad girl" in the Grease revival. She had wanted the lead role of Sandy and believed the producers typecast her as "bad girls" after her success as Xena.
Early training
Lawless first appeared on television in Funny Business, a sketch comedy series from New Zealand. She later went to Vancouver, Canada, to study drama at the William Davis Centre for Actors Study.
Behind the camera
Lawless directed and co-wrote Never Look Away, a film about Margaret Moth, a New Zealand-born CNN photojournalist and camerawoman. It first screened in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 40th Sundance Film Festival in Utah in January 2024.
Beyond film
Lawless kept singing while Xena was on the air and even wrote dirge music herself. Her composition became the dirge "Burial" in "The Path Not Taken," and she sang it there for the first time.
Lucy Lawless movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Also two films together1 more actor
- Renée O'ConnorBitch Slap (2009) and Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Lucy Lawless's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.2 billion
7 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 never in cinemas; 7 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2Never in cinemas
- 7Figure not found
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$940M75.3% of the total
- 2$213M17.1% of the total
- 3$67M5.4% of the total
- 4$23M1.8% of the total
- 5$5.2M0.4% of the total
- 6$199K0.0% of the total
- 7$113K0.0% of the total
Awards
One award and honor.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other honors | |||
| 2004 | Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Won | |
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.