Lucy Lawless Movies

Taking her newborn baby, Eve, on a visit to her mother, Xena (Lucy Lawless) enters the village of Amphipolis. Here Xena, Eve, and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) are surrounded by the armies of the warrior Athena (Paris Jefferson), who intends to kill Eve to appease the Olympian Gods. To extricate herself from her present dilemma, Xena must pull the wool over the eyes of war god Ares (Kevin Smith), who is a notoriously bad sport whenever someone tries to deceive him. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Callisto (Hudson Leick), the mortal enemy of warrior princess Xena (Lucy Lawless), has come back from Hades with a lot of mischief in mind. Callisto's plan involves placing the duplicitous Caesar (Karl Urban) on the emperor's throne and corrupting Xena. Not everything goes according to plan, but the dire predictions made by evil shamaness Atra in an earlier episode come to pass as the Roman legions prepare to crucify Xena and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor). Originally intending as the final episode of Xena: Warrior Princess' fourth season, "The Ides of March" ended up as next-to-last. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

When Ephiny (Danielle Cormack) is killed by Brutus (David Franklin), Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) is crowned the Queen of the Amazons. Meanwhile, Xena (Lucy Lawless) tussles with both Brutus' comrade in arms, Caesar (Karl Urban), and their mutual enemy, Pompey (Jeremy Callaghan). And a rebellious teenaged Amazon named Amarice (Jennifer Sky, in her first series appearance) attaches herself to the nonplussed Gabrielle. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Forsaking the series' standard historical trappings, this episode takes place in 1999 A.D. A woman named Annie (Lucy Lawless), whose favorite TV series is (what else?) Xena: Warrior Princess, becomes convinced that she is herself reincarnated from Xena (who, need we add, is also played by Lucy Lawless). Her husband, Harry (Ted Raimi), who bears a striking resemblance to Xena's wanna-warrior friend Joxer, worries that Annie has lost her marbles. Harry consults a New Age psychologist named Mattie Merrill (Renee O'Connor) -- who is the living image of Xena's traveling companion, Gabrielle -- in hopes of finding out if Annie is just fantasizing. An expert in "past lives," Mattie begins probing her sources, and discovers some remarkable (and wholly unexpected) facts about both Annie and Harry. Originally slated to air in April of 1999, "Déjà Vu All Over Again" was ultimately rescheduled as Xena's fourth-season finale. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Mavicam (Jenya Lano), the top warrior and current lover of Ares (Kevin Smith), is anxious to prove worthy of being the War God's second-in-command. Obligingly, Ares sends Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) into another realm, there to engage in mortal combat with Mavicam. But the match is not as weighted in Xena's favor as it seems: She and the pacifistic Gabrielle are forced to share the same body, with one of the ladies materializing during the daytime, one at night. Since Mavicam is not so handicapped, it looks as though she will emerge victorious -- until her ego gets the better of her. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Xena (Lucy Lawless) seeks out the shamaness Yakut (Kate Elliot) to explain why she's having nightmares about her unborn baby. Yakut explains that the spirit of the evil Alti (Claire Stansfield) is systemically sapping the life force of Xena's child so that she, Alti, can return to the land of the living. It is up to Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) to rescue both Xena and baby -- but she might have to sacrifice her own life in the process. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this light-hearted episode, runaway Princess Alecia (Olivia Tennet) refuses to return home to her father and stepmother. Since Alecia's stubbornness may have disastrous consequences, it is up to Xena (Lucy Lawless), Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), and Joxer (Ted Raimi) to win the little girl over by telling her fairy tales. The result is three different, highly self-serving variations of the "Cinderella" story, with some very unusual casting choices. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

During their Indian odyssey, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) rescue a widow from being sacrificed on her late husband's funeral pyre. As a reward, Xena's soul is transported into a Karmic future. Here she comes face to face with her old nemesis, the evil shamaness Alti (Claire Stansfield) -- who, once again, conjures up her prophecy that Xena and Gabrielle will both be crucified. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Still journeying through India, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) find themselves in a city overflowing with street entertainers and mystics. Incredibly, Gabrielle suddenly takes on profound healing powers, and is promptly proclaimed a Devi -- but Xena thinks that Gabrielle's skills are all smoke and mirrors. And what of the ladies' new acquaintance, Eli (Timothy Omundson in his first series appearance), who may or may not be the magician he appears to be? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

On the last leg of her journey through India, Xena (Lucy Lawless) elicits the aid of Krishna (Rajiv Varma) to rescue Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) and Gabrielle's spiritual shaman, Eli (Timothy Omundson), from the King of the Demons. In the process, Xena learns of "The Way" -- that is, the manner in which the lives of humans are predestined to go along certain paths, even when those humans have no idea what those paths are. After complaints from a splinter religious group, this episode was withdrawn from Xena: Warrior Princess' U.S. syndicated package, and was never shown at all in the U.K. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Najara (Kathryn Morris), the homicidal religious zealot with whom Xena (Lucy Lawless) tussled in the earlier episode "Crusader," is back with a new look -- and a new message. Insisting that she has forsaken her past strong-arm methods, Najara declares that she is now devoted to a mantra of nonviolence -- but Xena isn't buying. Meanwhile, Joxer (Ted Raimi) must confront his feelings of guilt over his first kill. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Meg, the lusty lookalike of Warrior Princess Xena (both characters are, of course, played by Lucy Lawless), joins forces with Joxer (Ted Raimi) and Autolycus (Bruce Campbell) to steal a valuable item from under the noses of two corrupt regents. That item is the "key" that is said to lead to the crown of Athena. When the so-called key turns out to be a cute little baby, Meg suddenly feels very maternal. But before the episode ventures completely into Raising Arizona territory, the infant turns out to be something quite different than he appears to be. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

It sure looked like curtains for Xena: Warrior Princess at the end of the series' fourth season, what with both Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her traveling companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), being crucified by the Romans, the fulfillment of a prophecy by the evil shamaness Alti (Claire Stansfield). But given the amazing recuperative power of our heroines, both of whom had spectacularly arisen from the dead on previous occasions, it came as no surprise during season five that reports of their permanent demise were highly exaggerated. But though Xena and Gabrielle are eventually restored to the land of the living, they still have their share of trials and tribulations. Impregnated under mysterious circumstances, Xena gives birth to a daughter named Eve, an "immaculate conception" tied in with Gabrielle's devotion to the martyred prophet Eli (Tim Omundson). It soon develops that Eve has been targeted for extermination by the Olympian Gods, the result of a prophecy that the girl's birth would be the beginning of the end of the Gods' rule over Earth. As for Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), she is afforded the opportunity to ascend to the throne of Queen of the Amazons -- but this honor may require her to inflict heavy and horrible punishment upon her old friend Joxer (Ted Raimi). Joxer truly becomes "old" rather suddenly two-thirds of the way through the fifth season -- in fact, in one fell swoop 25 years pass by, during which both Xena and Gabrielle are in a state of suspended animation, frozen in a block of ice. Upon thawing out, the ladies discover that their old adversary Ares (Kevin Smith), God of War, has a powerful new ally: Fierce female warrior Livia, "The Bitch of Rome." Xena is disheartened to learn that Livia is none other than her own, grown-up daughter Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson), with whom she may be forced into mortal combat for the good of humankind. As in past years, season five bade goodbye to some familiar characters while introducing new ones. The most significant farewell was that of Joxer, who dies at Livia/Eve's hands. But the spirit of Joxer lives on, figuratively speaking, in the form of his stalwart son, Virgil (William Gregory Lee). Also in the tradition of previous seasons, the fifth-year run of Xena: Warrior Princess ended with a cliffhanger. This time around, Xena engaged in hand-to-hand combat against the Olympian Gods, with the fate of all the combatants remaining in the balance until the beginning of season six. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide