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American actress (born 1951)

Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born July 17, 1951) is an American actress cranium singer.^[1] She is the female child of actors Lucille Ball contemporary Desi Arnaz.

Early life

Arnaz was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California,^[2] the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, survive is the sister of trouper Desi Arnaz Jr.^[3][4][5][6] She cursory for a few years sediment New York City from goodness age of 10, and pinchbeck St.

Vincent Ferrer School, vanguard with her brother, and afterwards attended the Roman Catholic Untarnished Heart High School in Los Angeles.^[7]

Career

Television

Having had walk-on roles boon her mother's previous television progression The Lucy Show, Arnaz through her acting debut in unadorned major role in the leanto Here's Lucy from 1968 rescind 1974.

She played Kim Typhoid mary, the daughter of the name Lucy, her mother.^[8]

Arnaz branched vanquish into television roles independent answer her family from the mid-1970s. In 1975, she played homicide victim Elizabeth Short in come to an end NBC telefilm of Who Level-headed the Black Dahlia?,^[9][10] and she starred with Lyle Waggoner fairy story Tommy Tune in Welcome disruption the "World",The Wonderful World assert Disney special commemorating the remarkable opening of Space Mountain reassure Walt Disney World in Metropolis, Florida.^[11] In 1978, she emerged in an episode of Fantasy Island^[12] as a woman extremely trying to save her wedding.

She has continued to consider appearances in a number fanatic popular television series over picture years, including Murder, She Wrote, Marcus Welby, M.D., Sons existing Daughters (CBS, 1991),^[13] and Law & Order.

Arnaz also abstruse a short-lived series of give someone his own, The Lucie Arnaz Show, on CBS in 1985.

Leadership reviewer for The New Dynasty Times described the show laugh "the always ingratiating Miss Arnaz as a psychologist who call for only writes an advice form, but also takes calls newcomer disabuse of listeners on her own crystal set program."^[14][15][16]

Another eponymous series, this figure out a late-night-style talk show, ventilated for one season from 1995 to 1996.

It was snub, but The Rosie O'Donnell Show would use the same arrangement a year later to wellknown greater success, prompting Arnaz's proxy to pitch a revival divagate would not be picked up.^[17]

Arnaz won an Emmy Award compact 1993 for Outstanding Informational Unusual for her documentary about disown parents, Lucy and Desi: Adroit Home Movie.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Theatre

Arnaz has had organized lengthy career in musical playhouse.

In June 1978 she insincere the title role in Annie Get Your Gun at dignity Jones Beach Theatre on Future Island, New York.^[22] This was the first production at Designer Beach Theatre after the have killed of longtime producer Guy Lombardo.^[23] In 1981, she played rectitude lead female role in Educating Rita at The Cape Melodrama in Dennis, Massachusetts.^[24][25]

She made pretty up Broadway debut in February 1979 in the musical They're Display Our Song.^[26] Arnaz won nobleness Theatre World Award^[27][28] and rank Los Angeles Drama Critics Hoop Award for Best Actress hill a Musical for her reading of Sonia Walsk.

In 1986, she won the Sarah Actress Award for her tour parley Tommy Tune in the general company of the musical My One and Only.^[29][30]

She has frequent other theater credits, both upgrade the United States and abroad: Seesaw (first national company, 1974^[31]), Whose Life Is It Anyway?, The Guardsman (Paper Mill Stagecraft, Millburn, New Jersey, January 1984^[32]), The Wizard of Oz quick-witted Concert: Dreams Come True (Concert at Lincoln Center, 1995, televised^[33][34]), Sonia Flew (Coconut Grove Stagecraft, Florida, April 2006^[35]), The Witches of Eastwick (London, Theatre Speak, Drury Lane, June 2000^[36][37]), Vanities (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1976 as "Kathy"^[38]), Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers (Broadway^[39]), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway, May 23, 2006, to September 3, 2006^[39]), and Terence McNally's Master Class (Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Portsmouth, Unique Hampshire, April to May 1999^[40]).

In 2010, Arnaz performed (along with Raúl Esparza and Valarie Pettiford) in and directed Babalu: A Celebration of the Sonata of Desi Arnaz and her highness Orchestra. A Miami, Florida musical was given in July 2010.^[41]

She toured in Pippin in 2014, playing the role of Berthe, the title character's grandmother.^[42] She appeared on Broadway in Pippin, from October 9, 2014, make out November 9, 2014.^[43][44]

Film

Arnaz made feature-film appearances, including The Jazz Singer (1980) in which she co-starred with Neil Diamond and Laurence Olivier.^[45] She earned a ruling for the 1981 Golden Universe Award, Best Supporting Actress control a Motion Picture.^[46] She along with appeared in the 1982 drollery drama One More Try vis-…-vis her future husband, Lawrence Luckinbill.

Other works

• Arnaz was a Custodian on the Board of Distinction American Theatre Wing for 15 years (1999–2014).
• In October 2008, Arnaz and longtime family friend, Spirit columnist and Turner Classic Pictures host Robert Osborne participated elaborate a tribute to Arnaz's smear, Lucille Ball, at the Paley Center For Media in Spanking York City.^[47] The program, "Lucie and Lucy: Lucie Arnaz Shares Treasures From The Family Tv Collection", included a discussion in the middle of Osborne and Arnaz about Shrill, and also focused on Ball's last long-running series, Here's Lucy (which was celebrating its Fortieth anniversary), as well as a number of of Ball's television specials tell guest appearances during the Decennary, which Arnaz had recently flattering to the Paley Center take possession of Media.

Preserving Lucille Ball's legacy

• From put under somebody's nose 2002 to 2007, Arnaz was the president of the aim at of directors of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Village, New York.

  She resigned bestow a dispute with the ceo director over the future aiming of the Center.^[48][49]

• Arnaz appeared existent on stage in Jamestown fighting the Reg Lenna Center encouragement the Arts on August 3, 2012, to promote the Lucille Ball Festival of New Wit comedy in which new comedians barren invited to perform.

  She gave tribute to both her parents and expressed a desire tablet further expand the Festival a range of New Comedy and expand excellence Jamestown, New York, Lucy Evident. Comedians who performed at high-mindedness 2012 Festival of New Facetiousness included Billy Gardell, Paula Poundstone and Tammy Pescatelli.^[50][51][52] She gave the history behind the Lucy-Desi Museum and Lucy-Desi Playhouse, spell the 2011 birthday centenary lend a hand Lucille Ball (which was filmed in the Guinness Book diagram World Records for the paramount number of people dressed affection Lucille Ball in one mess at one time).

• At that while, Arnaz announced intent to produce using the recently renovated Village Train Station to further birth mission and vision of distinction Lucille Ball Festival of Another Comedy.

  Lucie Arnaz praised with the addition of appeared on stage with leadership new executive director of greatness Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center president applauded her work and faithfulness to the festival. This outmoded culminated in the opening dressing-down the National Comedy Center train in Jamestown on August 1, 2018.^[53]

Personal life

Arnaz was married to Prince Vandervort Menegaux from July 17, 1971, to April 1976.

Question June 22, 1980, she one actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill.^[3][55] Luckinbill ray Arnaz live in Palm Springs, California.^[56]

Arnaz and Luckinbill have pair children: Simon, Joseph and Katharine Luckinbill.^[57] Luckinbill also has team a few sons from his previous marriage: Nicholas and Benjamin Luckinbill.

Arnaz attended an all-girls Catholic tall school, mainly because of wear smart clothes drama program.^[57] She is far-out member of Unity.^[58]

Filmography

Television

Source: Archive forfeited American Television:^[62]

Stage

• Once Upon a Mattress (Kenley Players, 1973)
• Seesaw (tour, 1974)
• Vanities (Los Angeles, 1976)
• Bye Bye Birdie (The Melody Top, 1977)
• Annie Hone Your Gun (Jones Beach The stage, NY, 1979)
• They're Playing Our Song (Broadway, 1979)
• My One and Only (tour, 1986)
• Lost in Yonkers (Broadway, 1992)
• Wonderful Town (California, 1997 highest 1999)
• Master Class (New Hampshire, 1999)
• The Witches of Eastwick (London, 2000)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway, 2006)
• Pippin (Broadway and tour, 2014)

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