What happened to actress Lucy Lawless, who played the badass “Xena the Warrior”?
Actress Lucy Lawless became a lesbian icon with her series Xena the Warrior in which the relationship between her character and Gabrielle played by Renée O’Connor was addressed (although this was never confirmed by the creators of the series) , like a romantic relationship. But what has happened to the New Zealand actress since the end of her cult series?
What did she do after Xena?
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Xena ended in 2001 in the United States, after 6 seasons and 134 episodes. Lucy Lawless appears in two episodes of season 9 of The X-Files, then plays the aunt of the famous wild child in the series Jane and Tarzan (2003) and Stephen Kay calls on her on the big screen for Boogeyman: The Nightmare Gate ( 2005).
The same year, she boarded the battlestar Galactica from season 2 to the point that her character Anna Biers became important during season 3 and appeared in season 4!
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Lawless in “My Life Is Murder”
After a little slump in 2009-2010, she returned to the forefront with the role of Lucretia in the series Spartacus, tried comedy in Parks and Recreation, joined the Marvel universe for two episodes of Agents of SHIELD, then turns in Salem and Ash vs Evil Dead, like Spartacus produced by Sam Raimi who had given him a small role in his Spider-Man.
Since 2019, she has played the heroine of the detective series My Life Is Murder, Alexa Crowe, who investigates unsolved murder cases for the Melbourne police.
A moon in his name!
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From 2009, she committed to the climate and became an ambassador for Greenpeace on the subject. She walks the talk by participating in environmental actions to the point of being sometimes arrested and sentenced, notably to hours of community service and fines.
Astronomer Michael E. Brown named a dwarf planet he discovered “Xena.” It has since been renamed “Eris”, and Brown purposely named Eris’s moon Dysnomia, after the Greek goddess of anomie (lawlessness in English, therefore always referring to the actress).
Xena, a character born in… Hercules!
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In 1994, Kevin Sorbo played a well-known demigod from Greek mythology in Hercules and the Amazons. Lucy Lawless plays a supporting role, Lysia. When the TV movie produced a series simply titled Hercules, still with Kevin Sorbo, Lawless was hired. She appears in 4 episodes of season 1, in two distinct characters: Lyla and Xena. The latter becomes very popular, to the point of obtaining its own series.