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BIOGRAPHY
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| Full Name: | Lucille Frances Ryan (Lawless) (Tapert) MNZM (NZ Order of Merit Member) |
Date of Birth: |
29 March 1968 |
| Birthplace: |
Mt Albert, New Zealand |
| Martal Status: | Married to Robert Gerard Tapert (28 March 1998) |
| Children: |
Three:
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| Resides: | Auckland, New Zealand / Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Hair Colour: | "Mousy" Blonde (Natural) |
| Eye Colour: | Blue |
| Height: | 5'10.5 |
| Family Background: |
Irish Catholic, has 5 brothers (4 older) and 1 sister (younger) Lucy says: 'I have five brothers and one sister. We're this big, sprawling Irish Catholic family. I don't live that far from any of them.' |
| Languages: | English, German, French and Italian |
Credits
Benefits / Concerts
| 2004 | The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation - Help Is On the Way X Broadway and All That Jazz - 10th Anniversary Gala / Benefit Concert in San
Fraciscso, California - 2 August 2004 Lucy will sing at this event - see REAF Information Section for more details and images |
| 2004 | 20th Annual Stage (Southland Theater Artists Goodwill Event) fund raiser March 12 -14, 2004 - Los Angeles- Lucy sings at the benefit. See 20th Annual Stage (Southland Theater Artists Goodwill Event) fund raiser Information Section for details and images |
| 2003 | New Zealand Pre-Oscar's party - March 21, 2003. Lucy sang 2 solos and 8 songs with Dave |
| 2002/2003 | Summer Holiday Tour with Dave Dobbyn - Lucy singing on stage with Dave in New Zealand - 11 appearances (December 27 until 11 January 2003) |
Documentaries
2004 |
"Totally Gayer" - It's about sexuality in the 21st century. Lucy narrates this documentary |
| 2003 | Warrior
Women - documentary on famous female historic figures |
| 2003 |
Double Dare
- documentary about Zoe Bell (Lucy stunt double) Lucy makes an appearance as herself |
| 2002 |
Gladiatrix - documentary on female gladiators of Ancient Rome |
| 2001 |
New Zealand Home of Middle Earth. Lucy narrates this audio-visual
documentary about the making of the movie Lord of the Rings. |
| 2001 |
Lucy Lawless - Kiwi Superstar - Documentary about Lucy > (in NZ
it was billed as Kiwi Superstar but the doco was made by E! Profile
and it's called " Lucy Lawless - Wife, Mother, Warrior Princess
" when it airs outside of NZ) |
| 2000 | In
Search of the Lonesome Yodel - Lucy appeared on the NZ TV doco
/special about yodelling. She did a couple of yodels that were
quite funny. |
| 1998 |
Love Hurts
- documentary about child abuse in NZ (airred on NZ TV - 1 September
1998) - Lucy was the presenter from TV1 |
Feature
Films
| Released | Title/Role |
| 2004 | Character Voice - The Naked Samoan |
| 2004 | Boogeyman
as Mary Jensen |
| 2004 |
Eurotrip (was The Ugly Americans) as Madam Van Der Sexxx |
| 2001 | Spiderman as a punk rocker - cameo |
| 1999 |
I'll
Make You Happy - cameo |
| 1997 |
Hercules & Xena: Battle
for Mount Olympus - animated feature |
| 1995 |
Bitter Song as a nurse - short film |
| 1995 | Peach
as a trucker - short film |
| 1991 |
The
End of the Golden Weather as Joe's Girl |
| Air date | Title/Role |
| 2003 | Tarzan (Kathleen Clayton - Tarzan's aunt) - Lucy is in 6 episodes out of 8 for this series. |
| 2002 | Bernie
Mac Show (as herself) |
| 2001 | The X-Files (as Shannon McMahon in Nothing Important Happened Today) |
|
Just Shoot Me (as a prostitute) |
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| 1998 |
Hercules in Armageddon Now Part 2 as The Conqeuror |
| 1997 | Something So Right (as herself) |
| Hercules as Alternative Universe Xena in Stranger in a Strange World | |
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Hercules in Judgement Day |
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1995-2001 |
Xena:
Warrior Princess (Xena) |
| 1995 | Hercules (Episode: Warrior Princess) |
| Hercules (Episode: Unchained Heart) | |
| Hercules (Episode: The Gauntlet) | |
| Hercules (Episode: As Darkness Falls) | |
| Hercules (Episode: Outcast) | |
| Rainbow
Warrior (TV Movie) |
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| 1994 | High Tide (Episodes: Dead In the Water) |
| High Tide (Episodes: Shanghaied) | |
| The Summer The Queen Came (Role unknown - TV Drama/movie) | |
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Hercules & The Amazon Women (TV Movie) |
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| 1993 | Marlin Bay (Appeared in several episodes) |
| The Black Stallion (Riding the Volcano) | |
| Typhon's
People (TV Movie) |
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| 1992/93 |
Air New Zealand Holiday Show - Co-Host |
| 1992 |
Ray Bradbury Theatre (episode Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum ) |
| 1991 |
Shark In the Park lll (Kim Hughes) |
| 1990 | For the Love of Mike (Helen) |
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Within The Law (Verity) |
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| 1988 |
Funny Business (Comedy Show - NZ)
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Theatre
| 2005 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 13-15 May 2005 - Seattle USA Lucy will play Dorothy in the musical |
| 2002 | The Vagina Monolgues - 15 February - 30 March 2002 (New Zealand) |
| 1997 | Grease (on Broadway) as "Rizzo" |
Producer
| 2000 | Lucy (as a producer) on a movie called 'Her
Iliad’ with writer Jessie Warn on a short black/white hour long film in 2000. Rated R for strong grisly murders and violence, sex, language and some drug use
NZFilm.co.nz has the small mention http://www.nzfilm.co.nz/display_film.php?film_id=530 Film details at: http://short-film.mainseek.com/-22891-149370-0-Her-Iliad.html |