Lawless was quoted in Newsweek as saying, "Obviously, I was mortified.It was quite a bit more exposure than I want." Days earlier, on, 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. In 1997, Lawless was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Weekly Magazine. She made a complete recovery, and her absence from the Xena set had minimal impact on the show.[ 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. Xena: Warrior Princess, like its parent program, was a hit, lasting six seasons, and Lawless became an international celebrity. Xena: Warrior Princess debuted on 4 September 1995 (Lawless appeared as Lyla once again in the second season Hercules episode "Outcast" – aired in October 1995).
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The character was popular enough that a spin-off series was created. Xena subsequently returned in two more episodes of the first season of Hercules, which portrayed her turn from villainess to a good, heroic character. To differentiate between Xena and the similar Lysia, Lawless' hair, naturally ash blonde, was coloured black. Vanessa Angel was originally cast in the role, but fell ill and was unable to travel to New Zealand for shooting. "Rob" Tapert commissioned John Schulian to write). Stewart, one of Pacific Renaissance Pictures' in-house writers, dramatised the teleplay from a story that Robert G. She went on to play another character, Lyla, in the first season episode "As Darkness Falls." She received her best-known role when she was asked to play a villainous warrior woman named Xena in the episode "The Warrior Princess", which aired in March 1995 (R. In that episode, she played a man-hating Amazon named Lysia. In 1994, 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. Her debut on television was two and a half seasons as a cast member of the New Zealand sketch comedy series "Funny Business" – after which she studied drama at the William Davis Centre for Actors Study in Vancouver. They have two sons, Julius Robert Bay Tapert (born 16 October 1999) and Judah Miro Tapert (born ). On 28 March 1998, Lawless married Robert Tapert. They returned to New Zealand and had a daughter, Daisy Lawless (born 15 July 1988). The couple married in Kalgoorlie, Australia in 1988. But university studies in opera and languages were abandoned after she decided that opera would mean compromising her own mantra of being the best she could at everything she tried.Īt 18, like many young New Zealanders she went on her "overseas experience", traveling through Europe and Australia – where she met future husband Garth Lawless.Īt 19, Lawless became pregnant with Garth Lawless' child. After learning that opera required changes in her lifestyle she was not ready to make, she gave up on both and studied violin and jazz instead, and considered becoming a singer. Lawless attended The University of Auckland and studied foreign languages for a year, including German, Italian and French, and she also studied opera for three years. She later said she "used to quite like bulimia", but was able to overcome the illness. Lawless appeared in her first musical at the age of and began acting in secondary school. Lawless was the fifth of seven children, and has five brothers and one sister, and has described her parents and siblings as "this big, sprawling Irish Catholic family." While filming in Ireland for the Discovery Channel in 2004, Lawless told Ireland on Sunday that her father's family originated in Quilty, County Clare, and her great grandfather arrived in New Zealand as a convict. Lawless was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert in New Zealand, the daughter of Julie Ryan, a teacher, and Frank Ryan, who was a banker and Mount Albert mayor. Most recently she appeared on the television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, its prequel Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance. She is also widely known for her role, D'Anna Biers/Number Three (Cylon), on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. Lucy Lawless, MNZM (born Lucille Frances Ryan 29 March 1968) is a New Zealand actress and musician best known for playing the title character of the internationally successful television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
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