Lucy Lawless better known as the well-built warrior princess "Xena" is now set to join the cast of the "Battlestar Galactica" for the Sci Fi Channel. Portraying D'Anna Biers for series third season, Lucy Lawless is to appear as a journalist in 10 episodes with the shoots commencing in April.
Lucy Lawless, a New Zealander by birth became a home figure across the US after playing Xena for five years starting from 1995. Doing guest appearances on other popular shows like "The X-Files" or "Veronica Mars", she however did not match her “Xena” role in these episodic roles. Also appearing in Two and a Half Men, Bernie Mac, Less Than Perfect and Just Shoot Me, Lawless got stuck in the Amazonian-woman mold playing the lead role in the less successful Warner Bro.s series "Tarzan".
“Battlestar Galactica”, which since January 6th has been playing the latter half of the series' second season, has a huge fan following that is eagerly looking forward to its third season. After making a guest appearance in the installment "Flight of the Phoenix", journalist D'Anna Biers joins the Galactica crew while seeking to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of four civilians.
D'Anna's investigation builds a sympathetic view and lends to mending the rift between civilians and the military. But it is later understood that D'Anna herself is a human-looking Cylon agent whose primary goal is reconnaissance of the “Battlestar”. Lawless' second appearance in the installment "Downloaded" is scheduled to air in the last week of February, wherein viewers peek into lives of the Cylons.
After playing a memorable Madame Vandersexxx in the film Eurotrip and doing a cameo for Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Lucy Lawless recently appeared in lead roles in movies like “Locusts” and “Vampire Bats”.
Also appearing in the 2006 horror flick “The Darkroom”, Lucy Lawless seems to be on a roll. Joining the stellar ensemble of Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park, Lawless owes some of her TV fortune to “Xena” producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick.
