Lucie Arnaz

Lucie Arnaz
Vital information
Gender:	Female
Born:	(1951-07-17) July 17, 1951
Birthplace:	Los Angeles, CA, U.S.
Occupation/ Career:	Actress, singer, dancer, producer
Years active:	1963–present
Family and Personal information
Character/Show information
Appeared on/ involved with:	I Love Lucy / Here's Lucy
Episodes appeared in:	I Luve Lucy: as host of CBS-TV airing of "The Lost Pilot" (Unaired Pilot)" in 1990; Here's Lucy: 118 episodes
Appears as:	Herself / Kim Carter

Lucie Arnaz (born Lucie Désirée Arnaz on July 17, 1951) served as the host of a special airing of the original "lost" pilot" episode of I Love Lucy which aired on CBS-TV on March 30, 1990, which also released on DVD in 2002. Lucieand her brother Desi Arnaz, Jr. both co-starred with their mom Lucille Ball as Kim Carter, the daughter of Lucy Carter, on the 1968-74 CBS-TV series Here's Lucy.

Career

Television

Having had walk-on roles on her mother's television series The Lucy Show, Arnaz made her acting debut in a continuing role in the series Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974. She played Kim Carter, the daughter of the eponymous Lucy—who was played by Arnaz's real-life mother, Lucille Ball. Here's Lucy at the Internet Movie Database</ref>

Arnaz branched out into television roles independent of her family from the mid-1970s. In 1975, she played murder victim Elizabeth Short in an NBC-TV telefilm of Who is the Black Dahlia?, and she starred with Lyle Waggoner and Tommy Tune in Welcome to the "World", The Wonderful World of Disney special commemorating the grand opening of Space Mountain at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. In 1978, she appeared in an episode of Fantasy Island as a woman desperately trying to save her marriage. She has continued to make appearances in a number of popular television series over the years, including Murder, She Wrote, Marcus Welby, M.D., Sons and Daughters (CBS, 1991), and Law & Order.

Arnaz also had a short-lived series of her own, The Lucie Arnaz Show, on CBS-TV in 1985. The reviewer for The New York Times described the show as "the always ingratiating Miss Arnaz as a psychologist who not only writes an advice column, but also takes calls from listeners on her own radio program."

Another eponymous series, this one a late-night-style talk show, aired for one season from 1995 to 1996. It was unsuccessful, but The Rosie O'Donnell Show would use the same format a year later to much greater success, prompting Arnaz's agent to pitch a revival that would not be picked up.

She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special, in 1993 for her documentary about her parents, Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie.

Theater

Lucie has numerous other theater credits, both in the United States and abroad: Seesaw (first national company, 1974), Whose Life Is It Anyway?, The Guardsman (Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey, January 1984), The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (Concert at Lincoln Center, 1995, televised), Sonia Flew (Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida, April 2006), The Witches of Eastwick (London, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, June 2000), Vanities (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1976 as "Kathy"), Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers (Broadway), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway, May 23, 2006, to September 3, 2006 and Terence McNally's Master Class (Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April to May 1999).

In 2010, Arnaz performed (along with Raúl Esparza and Valarie Pettiford) in and directed Babalu: A Celebration of the Music of Desi Arnaz and his Orchestra. A Miami, Florida performance was given in July 2010.

She toured in Pippin in 2014, playing the role of Berthe, the title character's grandmother. She appeared on Broadway in Pippin, from October 9, 2014 to November 9, 2014.

External Links

• Lucie Arnaz article at Wikipedia