Lucille Frances Lucy Lawless, MNZM is a New Zealand actress best known for playing the title character of the internationally successful television series Xena Warrior Princess.
Lucille Frances Lucy Ryan 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. She has four brothers and one sister, and was the fifth of the six siblings herself, having described her family as this big, sprawling Irish Catholic family.
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