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Lucy Lawless was born Lucy Frances Ryan in Auckland, New Zealand. The fifth of seven children, Lucy has five brothers and one sister. Always keen to be an actress, Lucy struggled to achieve her goals. After working as a gold miner in Australia at age 19, Lucy married long time boyfriend Garth Lawless after getting pregnant. She returned to New Zealand where she had her baby daughter Daisy and worked on the travel show, Air New Zealand and had a number of small roles on tv and film. She came to the attention of Renaissance pictures and Rob Tapert when she was cast in the first Hercules TV movie, Hercules and the Amazon Women.
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Lucy Lawless is the fifth of seven children born to Frank and Julie Ryan. She has five brothers and one sister, and began acting in secondary school. At Auckland University, she studied foreign languages for a year. She dropped out and left for Europe with her boyfriend, Garth Lawless, to travel in Germany and Switzerland. The couple then moved to Australia, where she worked briefly as a gold miner.
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Lucy Lawless dropped out of Auckland University and left for Europe with her boyfriend, to travel in Germany and Switzerland. The couple then moved to Australia, where Lucy worked briefly as a gold miner. The TV show Xena, Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless, was a surprise hit of the late 1990s. As an unknown actress from New Zealand, Lawless suddenly was a television star and developed a huge fan following among America's lesbian community. Her feature films appearances included animation series Hercules and Xena: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998), a cameo appearance in the blockbuster Spider-Man (2002, with Tobey Maguire) and the comedy Eurotrip (2004). Lucy Lawless had the honor of being crowned Mrs. New Zealand and then got her first acting break in Funny Business, a popular TV comedy serial.
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Lucy Lawless was born on March 29, 1968 in Mount Albert, New Zealand. She grew up with six siblings, and started acting while she was in secondary school. She spent one year at Auckland University, where she studied foreign languages, and subsequently headed to Europe with her then boyfriend, Garth Lawless. After traveling around Germany and Switzerland, she and Garth relocated to Australia, where Lawless found employment as a gold miner.
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Lucy Lawless was born on March 29, 1968. Lucy was very much a tomboy up to the age of eight, following in the footsteps of her four older brothers. She went to a public school for two years before attending convent schools. She started an early career in acting by appearing in numerous musicals and plays throughout her high school years.
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