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Kōrero: Actors and acting

Lucy Lawless, 1997

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Actor Lucy Lawless's Broadway debut came when she appeared in the musical Greasein 1997, as the bad-girl character Betty Rizzo. She had previously played the title role in the television series Xena: warrior princess.  In this clip from a 1997 TV programme, Lawless talks about her earliest experiences of acting, as a schoolgirl in Mt Albert, Auckland. 

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Laurie Atkinson, Actors and acting – Multiculturalism and acting, 1980 to 2013, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/42203/lucy-lawless-1997 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Laurie Atkinson, i tāngia i te 9 July 2013.