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Lucy Lawless

Oh My Stars and Garters

Breaking: The Next Expendables Film Will Feature A Female Action Star Cast

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:47 pm, August 18th, 2012

Don’t bother pinching yourself. You’re awake. This is actually happening. With The Expendables 2 just hitting theaters this weekend, Variety is reporting another Expendables-type film will feature a cast made up of female action stars. Hit the jump for my reaction and oh yeah, all the details we know so far. 

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Fangasm

Lucy Lawless to Guest Star On Parks and Recreation

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 4:15 pm, August 16th, 2012

Lucy Lawless will finally make an appearance on Parks and Recreation after a scheduling conflict with the television series Spartacus: Vengeance prevented her from playing Tammy 1, Ron Swanson’s first ex-wife. Hit the jump to find out some details about her role and consider yourself spoiler warned!

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Our Adorable Past

Blast From the Past: Xena and Seven of Nine Hang Out

by Susana Polo | 11:47 am, March 1st, 2012

We ran across these pictures on tumblr recently and just had to figure out in what context they were taken. Were Lucy Lawless and Jeri Ryan at a con? Just hanging out?

Was Seven on an away team that found a planet who’d based their culture on mythological Greece or more likely ancient artifacts of mid-90s television?!?!?

Turns out it was a joint TV Guide interview from 1999 about television’s ass-kicking leading ladies.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Princess Leia Doing Yoga

by Jamie Frevele | 4:57 pm, February 27th, 2012

You know, I’ve always wanted to try the “Victorious Wookie” pose, but my upper-body balance needs more attention before attempting that kind of thing. You can buy a print of this Princess Leia pose guide (by Rob Osborne) on Etsy. (via Diary of a Death Starlette)

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For great justice

Lucy Lawless Hijacked an Oil Drilling Ship in New Zealand Yesterday

by Jamie Frevele | 2:08 pm, February 24th, 2012

In her spare time, while not playing various warrior asskickers, Lucy Lawless is a Greenpeace activist. And yesterday, while we were all sitting around watching puppy videos, Lawless and six other activists hopped aboard a Shell drilling ship off the coast of New Zealand. Actually, they weren’t allowed to, so it’s technically a hijacking. They were protesting the potential environmental damage caused by oil drilling in the Arctic, where the ship was headed. Lawless and her fellow activists were threatened with arrest, but stood their ground. Because seriously, would you expect anything less from Lucy Lawless? She is a warrior princess — for the Earth.

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so long and thanks for all the fish

Spartacus Star Andy Whitfield Dies at 39

by Jamie Frevele | 10:59 am, September 12th, 2011

Just about a year after announcing that he could not return to play the title role in Starz‘ Spartacus series because of a recurrence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Andy Whitfield has passed away. He fought the disease for 18 months before succumbing at the age of 39. According to a statement from his family, he was “surrounded by love” in Sydney, Australia.

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and let it be known

Happy Birthday to Lucy Lawless!

by Susana Polo | 4:18 pm, March 29th, 2011

Lucy Lawless turns forty-three today, and it seems the perfect time to throw out some thanks for helping create one of the quintessential kick-ass ladies of the ’90s.

I’m talking, of course, about her role as the Threes on Battlestar Galactica.

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