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Lucy Lawless at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego photo by Gage Skidmore

Top 10 facts about Lucy Lawless

Lucy Lawless who  is a New Zealand born actress ,became famous for her portrayal of the title character in the popular television show, Xena: Warrior Princess.

As a youth, Lawless performed in school productions, and in college she studied opera singing. However, she later dropped her studies to travel throughout Europe and Australia, working at times as a grape picker and a gold miner. Eventually she married her traveling partner, Garth Lawless (they were later divorced), and moved back to New Zealand. While rearing their daughter, Daisy, she returned to acting, performing in commercials and in small parts on television and in movies.

Lawless鈥檚 breakthrough came with a 1994 guest appearance on the hit show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Her portrayal of Xena, a female warrior, inspired a spinoff program, Xena: Warrior Princess, in 1995. As the statuesque warrior

1.Lawless provided the voice of Gold moon for Dragonlance

New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless. photo by KT Jorgenson

Lucy Lawless provided the voice of Goldmoon for Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, a direct-to-DVD animated movie based on the novel of the same name, as well as Wonder Woman in the direct-to-video animated movie Justice League: The New Frontier. From 2012 to 2014.

Lawless had been on a recurring role on the NBC series Parks and Recreation as Diane, the love interest and eventual wife of Ron Swanson. In 2014 she guest starred in Agents of Shield as Isabelle Hartley in the season two premiere, and reprised the role later in episode 15 of season two, 鈥極ne Door Closes.鈥� In 2015,

Lawless landed the recurring guest role of Countess Marburg in WGN America鈥檚 Salem. She plays Countess Marburg, one of the last remaining survivors of the legendary line of ancient German witches. In March 2015, it was announced that she would be portraying the role of Ruby in Starz TV series Ash vs. Evil Dead.

2.She co-starred in the Starz original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand

 The show  which was based on the life of Spartacus. The famous gladiator, and the slave revolt he led, and was produced by long-time Xena producers Sam Raimi and 鈥淩ob鈥� Tapert, her own husband.

Lawless played the role of Lucretia, the wife of Lentulus Batiatus. They were both the owners of a gladiator ludus, which also saw Lawless doing nude scenes for the first time.

Lawless won the 2011 Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lucretia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Lucy reprised her role as Lucretia in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, which chronicled life in the Ludus before Spartacus鈥檚 arrival, and she also returned for the sequel Spartacus: Vengeance.

3.Lawless became a 鈥榣esbian icon鈥� because of Xena鈥檚 ambiguous relationship with traveling companion Gabrielle

This reputation has become cemented after her 鈥済raphic lesbian sex scenes鈥� in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. Although Lawless is heterosexual, she has appeared at gay pride events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

In a 2003 interview with Lesbian News magazine, she said that she had come to see Xena and Gabrielle鈥檚 relationship as gay after viewing the series finale. Though she has also stated on several occasions that she was undecided on the nature of the relationship while playing the role.

4.She was named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by Weekly Magazine in 1997

Days earlier, on 6 May 1997, Lawless had inadvertently exposed her breasts as she concluded a performance of the US national anthem at an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, California between the Mighty Ducks and Detroit Red Wings. Lawless was quoted in Newsweek as saying, 鈥淥bviously, I was mortified鈥�. It was quite a bit more exposure than I want.鈥�

5.Lucy Lawless played Betty Rizzo on Broadway in a production of Grease 

New Zealand singer Lucy Lawless at the en:O2 Academy Islington, photo by DreamNight

Indeed, she continued to sing during the run of Xena, even contributing dirge music of her own composition; this made it into the episode 鈥淭he Path Not Taken鈥� as the dirge 鈥淏urial,鈥� which she sang for the first time in the episode. Two musically oriented episodes, 鈥淭he bitter Suite鈥� and 鈥淟yre, Lyre, Heart鈥檚 on fire,鈥� also showcased not only her singing but also that of some of her castmates.

6.She suffered a miscarriage immediately following the filming of the last episode of Xena.

She considered canceling the appearance she was to make with Xena partner 鈥楻en茅e O鈥機onnor (I)鈥� (Gabrielle) at a fan convention. However, she decided to show up despite the tragic event just a few days earlier and even though Renee was 6 months pregnant with her first baby

7.Lawless appeared in Hercules and the Amazon Women

A Pacific Renaissance Pictures made-for-television film that became the television pilot for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In that episode, she played a man-hating Amazon named Lysia. She went on to play another character, Lyla, in the first season episode 鈥淎s Darkness Falls.鈥�

8. Lawless suffered a fractured pelvis when the horse she was riding lost its footing in the studio parking lot

While taping an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in October 1996. Lawless suffered a fractured pelvis when the horse she was riding lost its footing in the studio parking lot. She made a complete recovery. But several episodes of the second season of Xena were rewritten to focus on background characters to minimize the time Lawless was needed on set.

9.She first appeared on Broadway in the Grease revival, as the 鈥渂ad girl鈥� character, Betty Rizzo

Lucy Lawless speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International photo by Gage Skidmore

She wanted to play the lead role of Sandy. But  it stated that  her belief that the producers typecast her to play 鈥渂ad girls鈥� following her success as Xena. Lucy had  said that  the Sandy character was very similar to her sheltered childhood, growing up in New Zealand with many protective older brothers. She had four brothers and one sister. Lawless had  described her family as this big sprawling Irish Catholic family.

10.Lawless married Xena鈥檚 executive producer

 Lawless married Xena鈥檚 executive producer, Pacific Renaissance Pictures CEO Robert G. 鈥淩ob鈥� Tapert, on 28 March 1998. They have two sons,  Julius Robert Bay Tapert  and Judah Miro Tapert. The sons  were both born in Auckland, New Zealand.