Flawless Lucy Lawless

I guess it doesn't matter that I prefer Lucy Lawless with black hair since I'm not her husband or anything -- but in my personal opinion she is more gorgeous with black hair. Seeing her with blonde hair seems like a slap in the face to my childhood. She's Xena: Warrior Princess, she can't possibly have blonde hair. She's prettier when she has black, it just seems correct. With her blonde hair she just seems like another pretty face. Lame!

• Her full name: Lucille Frances Ryan (Lawless) (Tapert)
• Her birth date was March 29th, 1968

• Mt Albert, New Zealand was her birthplace.
• She is married to Robert Gerard Tapert
• She has three children:
  a daughter Daisy Lawless, and two sons Julius and Judah Tapert.
  

• Her height is 5'9.5
• Her natural hair color is blonde and her eyes are blue.
  
• She has four older brothers, and a younger brother and sister.
  
• She speaks English, German, French, and Italian

• In June 2004, Lucy was awarded Order of Merit in the Queen's Birthday Honour List for 2004

• An active child of diverse interests and with many siblings, Lawless went on to study German, French, and Italian at Aukland University for a year before traveling through Europe with boyfriend and eventual first husband Garth.

• Lucy fractured her pelvis when she was thrown from a horse while preparing for a skit for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1996.

• Made her broadway debut in Grease in 1997 after a producer of the stage show saw her sing "I'm An Old Cowhand" on the Rosie O'Donnell Show and offered her the part of Rizzo.

• Lucy ended her OE experience with her last stop in Australia splitting rocks for a gold-mining company in Kalgoolie. She married her boyfriend Garth Lawless in 1988 and they went back to New Zealand where Lucy gave birth of her daughter, Daisy.

• Studied acting at the William Davis Center for Actors in Vancouver in 1991.

• Found international fame as Xena in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, which ran from 1995-2001.

• Lucy has a unique fashion sense that she credits her mother for. Her fans love her for it.

• Loves NZ fashion and promotes New Zealand to the world.

• Lucy Quotes: Her husband Rob Tapert

'Rob is the finest man I've ever known.'

• Her Children

'In addition to Daisy, who is experiencing all the joys and horrors of the early teen years, I have Julius Tapert, who's in the terrible twos. Then there's sweet little Judah Miro Tapert, my new baby. They're my greatest blessings.'

• On Playing Xena:

'Xena doesn't rely on a man for help, and she doesn't come across as stupid. I loved playing her. It gave me a husband, a beautiful family and a home. It is probably the best role I will ever play in terms of scope and range.'

• Lucy loves Fishing:

'It's become a passion -and it's a sport I share with my husband. Rob loves the sea.'

• On fans being nasty:

"I really hated the things they said about my beloved husband, who's one of the most wonderful, kindest men on the planet and the one who came up with the ideas that got them excited in the first place.

• On the benefits of Ren Pics had on the NZ filming industry

"I'm really proud of the kind of company those Pacific Renaissance producers set up. I do wish they had got more recognition. I got plenty of recognition for everything I've done, more than enough. I got paid and I get all this underserved kudos. But I do mind that my husband never got the kind of credit that he should have. He employed 800 people sometimes - and for years and years and years."

• On what she wants out of life:

"I would rather do two movies a year and raise my kids because that would be an interesting career. I don't know how financially lucrative that would be. But if the right thing doesn't pop then the decision is to do nothing." Does she consider herself funny? Usually? I don’t even consider myself usually. Soccer mom, that’s what I consider myself. Yeah, I think I’m a funny person. I started out in comedy. You know I remember the moment I realized the value of comedy is when I was eight years old and I was sitting in class and I realized that if I just acted really stupid, I could get away with a lot of stuff. And it would diffuse a lot of tension and the teachers would focus on you. I just found out the value of being a funny dunce at times.

• On her cooking skills

I’m a terrible cook of all foods. I have no interest. I’m really good at cooking 20 minute meals that are really nutritious, pretty darn tasty and only using one pot because I don’t like cleaning up. My husband’s a chef and he makes unbelievable, ungodly mess and he doesn’t like cleaning up either. You know when you first get married, you strike some dumb deals where you go oh, I’ll cook and you clean, you go okay, that sounds fair and then you just regret it forever. I’ve renegged on that bet actually.

• What does Lucy take seriously...

I don’t take business seriously, I take acting seriously. I take my job really seriously, but a lot of the job is not about acting, but I don’t take business seriously.

All this information was compiled from: http://www.lucylawless.info/lucy.php. I've always liked Lucy Lawless and I will forever remember her as Xena. My friend Ashley and I used to pretend to be Xena and Gabriella. I always got stuck with Gabriella because I was a blonde. It wasn't fair. I wanted to be Xena, because we all know she's the one that was more awesome.

Ah well. Kudos to you, Miss Lawless, and good luck on the continuation of your acting career.

Miss French Beauty - Eva Green

Honestly, I may be straight, but if Miss Green wanted to snog me senseless. I'd let her! Look at her, she is gorgeous absolutely gorgeous. I always use her for roleplaying characters because I think she makes the perfect villain -- or anti-hero. Which is usually what at least one of my characters are. Anyway, less about me and more about the lovely and talented Eva Green. Interestingly enough, this actress and I have something in common. We're both 5'6", which I find rather interesting. I always thought she looked taller than me, maybe it's the shoes she wears. :)

Here's some things you may or may not know about this actress:

• Eva Green was born Eva Gaëlle Green on July 5, 1980, in Paris, France.

• She has a non-identical twin sister.

• Her father, named Walter Green, is a Swedish dentist who once appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966).

• Her mother, named Marlène Jobert, is an Algerian-born (during the time Algeria was part of France) French actress who retired from acting and became a writer of children's books.

• Young Eva Green left French school at 17. She switched to English in Ramsgate, Kent, and went to the American School in France for one year.

• She studied acting at Saint Paul Drama School in Paris for three years, then had a 10-week polishing course at the Weber Douglas Academy of dramatic Art in London. She also studied directing at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University.

• After The Dreamers Green's career ascended to the level where she revealed more of her multifaceted acting talent. She played the love interest of cult French gentleman stealer Arsène Lupin (2004) opposite Romain Duris. In 2005 she co-starred opposite Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) produced and directed by Ridley Scott. The film became a blockbuster in the US and worldwide and brought her a wider international exposure. She turned down the femme fatale role in The Black Dahlia that went to Hilary Swank because she didn't want to end up always typecast as a femme fatale after her role in The Dreamers. Instead, Eva Green accepted the prestigious role of Vesper Lynd, one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006) and became the 5th French actress to play a James Bond girl after Claudine Auger in Thunderball (1965), Corinne Clery in Moonraker (1979), Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Sophie Marceau in The World is not enough (1999).

• The actress is twenty eight years old (but in my personal opinion doesn't look a day over eighteen or nineteen!)

• Eva Green won Moliere Award for her performance in a stage play "Jalousie en Trois Fax".

• Eva Green's fifth film was "The Golden Compass" [2007] in which she played the role of a witch 'Serafina Pekkala'.

• Eva Green's beauty was complimented by Vogue magazine as having 'killer looks, intelligence and modesty'.

• Eva Green speaks fluent French and English, and practices speaking Japanese. She is also perfecting her American accent.

• Eva Green plays
  
  piano and flute.

• Eva Green is an avid art collector and is a known art critic.

• Eva Green's twin sister Joy green studied business and is married to an Italian count.

• Eva Green's last name is pronounced as 'grain'.

Quotes by Miss Eva Green:

• "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it's Bertolucci. I've seen Last Tango and it's not pornographic, it's not vulgar, it's not sick, so I trusted him. He's a master of love and eroticism, but it's good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anesthetized because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that." [February 5, 2004]

• "I don't have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it's crazy for everyone to have the same body."

• "I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself."

• "I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose."

I adore how she uses the word suppose. I don't know why I should find that so charming, but I do. I guess it's because I use that word often myself.

Information gathered for this mini-blurb on Eva can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200692/bio, and http://www.evagreen.us/eva-green-trivia.php.

These are just a few of the reasons that I believe we should all love Eva Green. Of course, not everyone is going to agree, but I've always been taken by her beauty and talent. It's good to know that she's also intelligent because I value that in a woman. Intelligent women are said to be more dangerous -- but I would rather a woman be deemed dangerous because of their intellect because some men deserve to be shook up in their boots. This is no longer a man's world, even if most of the countries in this planet are patriarchal. Women will not stand up for being abused, at least not here in the US. It's a pity that women are treated like crap elsewhere, but one cannot right all the wrongs of the world himself or herself. Though, I really wish I could. Anyway, hope you enjoyed.