Lucie Arnaz | |
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![]() Arnaz at the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, 2013
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Born |
Lucie Désirée Arnaz July 17, 1951 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, Singer, Dancer, Producer |
Years active | 1963–present |
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Spouse(s) |
Phil Vandervort (m. 1971; div. 1977) Laurence Luckinbill (m. 1980) |
Children | 3 children 2 stepsons |
Parent(s) |
Desi Arnaz Lucille Ball |
Relatives |
Desi Arnaz, Jr. (brother) Fred Ball (maternal uncle) Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II (paternal grandfather) |
Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born July 17, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and producer.
Lucie Arnaz was born and raised in Los Angeles. She lived for a few years in New York City when she was 10 years old, and attended St Vincent Ferrer School, along with her brother, Desi Arnaz, Jr., and attended the Roman Catholic Immaculate Heart High School. She is the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and is the sister of actor Desi Arnaz, Jr.
Having had walk-on roles in 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.
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 telefilm of Who is the Black Dahlia?. 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 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."