Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born July 17, 1951) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and is the sister of actor Desi Arnaz, Jr.

When asked why her name is not spelled like her famous mother's, Lucie replied: "My Dad chose the name. My mother wanted to name me Susan (don't ask why) but, as soon as she nodded off after delivery, he wrote L-U-C-I-E on the birth certificate. He said it was to honor my mother and he spelled it differently so that NO ONE would ever get confused."

Career
Lucie Arnaz attended Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles and launched a long and successful career as an actress.

After a few guest appearances and walk-ons on her mother's series, The Lucy Show, Arnaz, along with her brother, made her first acting appearance in a continuing role as Lucy's daughter, Kim, in the series Here's Lucy.

She returned to television in a 1975 production of Who Is the Black Dahlia? playing infamous murder victim Elizabeth Short.

In 1986, Arnaz earned the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. She also would star on Broadway in productions of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Terence McNally's Master Class and other shows, and toured with Tommy Tune in the international company of the musical My One and Only.

The actress has dozens of other theater credits, including roles in "Annie Get Your Gun", "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?" "The Guardian", "Vanities" and "Seesaw."

She performed in 1995's The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.

Arnaz has appeared in a number of popular television series, including Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, Sons and Daughters and a 2003 episode of Law & Order. She had a series of her own, "The Lucie Arnaz Show", in 1985.

She won an Emmy Award in 1993 for her documentary "Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie."

In 2000, she played a season in London's West End in a musical version of The Witches of Eastwick with actor Ian McShane.

She took over the role of Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway on May 23, 2006. She replaced Joanna Gleason, who originated the stage role.

Her daughter Katharine Desiree Luckinbill co-starred with her in 2006 in a Coconut Grove Playhouse production of "Sonia Flew."

In the film The Pack (2007), Arnaz starred as a woman charged with murder after her husband dies of secondhand smoke.

Lucie appeared with her brother, Desi, at the 5th Annual TV Land Awards in 2007 to accept the Legacy of Laughter award which was posthumously awarded to their mother.[1]

She also continues to tour with her popular concert and nightclub act.

Lucie Arnaz has been twice married, to Phil Vandervort (July 17, 1971 – 1977) and Laurence Luckinbill (June 22, 1980–present).

She and actor-writer Luckinbill have three children, Simon, Joseph and Katharine, and two from his previous marriage, Nicholas and Benjamin.


[edit] Stage
They're Playing Our Song
My One and Only
Lost in Yonkers
Seesaw
Vanities
Master Class
The Witches of Eastwick
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[edit] Filmography
Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)
A Different Approach (1978) (short subject)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Second Thoughts (1983)
Down to You (2000)
Wild Seven (2006)
The Pack (2007)

[edit] Television
Here's Lucy (1968 - 1974)
Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1975)
Death Scream (1975)
Fantasy Island (1978)
The Mating Season (1980)
Washington Mistress (1982)
The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985)
Murder, She Wrote (1988)
Who Gets the Friends? (1988)
Sons and Daughters (1991)
Abduction of Innocence: A Moment of Truth Movie (1996)
Law & Order - episode "Bitch", as Jackie Scott, a cosmetics mogul (2003)
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