lawless wanted to act since she was five. she took her first acting class at the school. lawless starred various national television commercials when she was a child. one of these was for mcdonald's. she played an amazon in the tv movie "hercules and the amazon women", in 1994, and lisya in his spin-off, the tv series "" em 1995. in the same year, she plays xena in three episodes, returning later.