Believe it or not, Lucie Arnaz is celebrating her 40th year in show business. She began her long career in a recurring role on television on The Lucy Show, opposite her mother, Lucille Ball. At age fifteen, she became a series regular on Here’s Lucy, a show which ran for six seasons. She starred in her own series, The Lucie Arnaz Show and later in the critically acclaimed Sons & Daughters on CBS.

On the big screen, Lucie has starred opposite Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier in THE JAZZ SINGER (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), opposite Tom Laughlin in BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON, alongside Ken Howard in SECOND THOUGHTS, and opposite Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Henry Winkler in DOWN TO YOU, a Miramax film. Most recently Lucie costarred with Richard Roundtree, Robert Loggia and Bob Forster in WILD SEVEN and in a controversial new film about second hand smoke from writer/director Alyssa Bennett entitled,THE PACK set to debut at Sundance this fall.

She has starred in many "made for television" films, as well, including the cult classic, Who Killed The Black Dahlia, Washington Mistress, The Mating Season opposite Laurence Luckinbill and Swoosie Kurtz, Who Gets The Friends? with Jill Clayburg and James Farentino, and Abduction of Innocence opposite Dirk Benedict.

On the stage, Lucie got her equity card playing many of the best women's roles in the theatre- Sally Bowles in CABARET, Daisy Mae in L'IL ABNER (her first time opposite Dirk Benedict), Princess Winifred, opposite Kaye Medford, Rudy Vallee, Christine Andreas and Don Amendolia in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, GOODBYE CHARLIE, A PLACE TO STAY, opposite John Ritter. With Stockard Channing and Sandy Duncan, Lucie created the role of Kathy in the west coast premiere of Vanities at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She later won the role of Gittle Mosca in the national company of the Cy Coleman/Dorothy Field's "love of a musical", Seesaw, opposite John Gavin and Tommy Tune and directed by Michael Bennett. She spent a summer at The Jones Beach Theatre in New York, playing Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, with Harve Presnell. During that summer, Broadway beckoned and she auditioned for and snagged the coveted role of the unforgettably wacky, Sonia Wolsk, in the Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/Carole Bayer Sager musical They’re Playing Our Song, directed by Robert Moore for which she received The Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle, Theatre World and Outer Critic's Circle Awards.

With her husband, Laurence Luckinbill, Lucie has appeared in the American premiere of Educating Rita, directed by Mike Ockrent, sold out tours of I DO, I DO and THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG and starred in the national companies of Whose Life is it Anyway? and in the Andrew Bergman comedy Social Security (Carbonelle Award), directed by Mike Nichols. Reviews for their roles in the revival of Lunt and Fontane's The Guardsman at The Papermill Playhouse were outstanding. After that, Lucie went on to star opposite Tommy Tune in the international company of the acclaimed Gershwin musical My One and Only (Sarah Siddons Award). Lucie returned to the Broadway stage where she received rave reviews for her portrayal of Bella in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Lost In Yonkers, written by Neil Simon and directed by Gene Saks. Lucie has starred Off Broadway as Glorie in Grace and Glorie, a two-hander, with Estelle Parsons, as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s Tony-Award-winning tour de force, Master Class, directed by Don Amendolia who also directed her as Ruth in the revival of Wonderful Town, prior to it's recent Broadway run, as Lucie was flying off to London for a year and a half to star in the new Cameron Mackintosh musical, The Witches of Eastwick, playing Alexandra opposite Maria Friedman, Joanna Riding and Ian McShane and directed by Eric Shaeffer, which opened at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in July 2000. She has starred at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Eduardo Machado's Once Removed, A Picasso, by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by John Tillinger, Ann and Debbie with Elizabeth Ashley and in April 2006, she opened there in, the now infamous, SONIA FLEW, costarring with her youngest child, a senior at University of Miami and a theatre major, Katharine Desiree Luckinbill.

Touring the U.S. and Europe with her critically acclaimed nightclub act, Lucie has made stops in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno and New York’s elegant Rainbow and Stars, and Feinstein’s. Her album, Just in Time, was released on the Concord Jazz label.

Arnaz and her husband, actor/writer Laurence Luckinbill, teamed up to form ArLuck Entertainment, a film and television production company, and together produced the EMMY award-winning documentary Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie, which has aired on NBC, A & E and Nickelodeon. Another company, Education Through Entertainment, published two CD-ROMs; Lucy & Desi: The Scrapbooks, Volume I, and How to Save Your Family History, A 10-Step Guide by Lucie Arnaz. In 2001 Lucie and her brother, Desi Arnaz, executive-produced the I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special which aired on CBS, and received an EMMY nomination.

Lucie just completed several months on "The Great White Way" costarring, on Broadway, with Jonathan Pryce, Norbert Leo Butz, Rachel York and Gregory Jbara, and then Keith Carradine, Brian D'Arcy James, Sherie Rene Scott and Richard Kind in the rib tickling Jeffrey Lane/David Yazbek musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, brilliantly directed by Jack O'Brien and playing to sell-out crowds at the Imperial Theatre where she made her first Broadway appearance nearly 30 years ago in They’re Playing Our Song.

With her husband, Laurence Luckinbill, Ms. Arnaz is mother to three beautiful and talented children - Simon, Joseph and Katharine in addition to being stepmother to his two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin. And it is these credits of which Lucie is most proud.

 

 

 

 

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