Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill

Lucie Arnaz is celebrating 50 plus years in show business. She began 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 Sons & Daughters on CBS. She 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. Lucie costarred with Richard Roundtree, Robert Loggia and Bob Forster in Wild Seven and in an award-winning controversial film about second hand smoke from writer/director Alyssa Bennett entitled The Pack which debuted at Sundance. On Broadway she may be best known for her starring role in the Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/Carole Bayer Sager musical They’re Playing Our Song. In 1979, during the run of They’re Playing Our Song, Lucie met her husband, actor/writer, Laurence Luckinbill, while he was also on Broadway in another Neil Simon hit, Chapter Two. The couple were married in June of 1980 and also teamed up to form ArLuck Entertainment. In 2001 Lucie and her brother, Desi Arnaz Jr, executive-produced the I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special which aired on CBS, and received an Emmy nomination. With her husband, she is mother to three children - Simon (born in 1980), Joseph (in 1982) and Katharine (in 1985) in addition to being stepmother to his two sons, Nicholas (1969) and Benjamin (1975).