For nearly three decades, Lucie Arnaz has toured her critically acclaimed nightclub acts throughout the United States, and Europe, making stops in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, Miami, Feinstein’s at the Regency, 54 Below, Birdland Jazz and the Café Carlyle in New York to name a few. She has performed the opening number on The Academy Awards and at The White House. Her CDs include Just in Time (Concord Jazz), Latin Roots (LML Music), Lucie: LIVE! At Feinstein’s at The Nikko, and Lucie: LIVE! From The Purple Room!
Lucie began her career on television at age 12 in a recurring role on The Lucy Show, starring her mother, Lucille Ball. At 15, she became a series regular on Here’s Lucy. In 1985 she starred in her own series, The Lucie Arnaz Show, and in 1989 in the critically acclaimed Sons and Daughters, all on CBS. Her films include The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier, Down to You with Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Henry Winkler. Television: Who Killed the Black Dahlia, Washington Mistress, The Mating Season, Who Gets the Friends? with Jill Clayburgh.
But Lucie’s heart has always been in the live performance arena, and she has been the recipient of a number of theatrical awards, including The Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award, Outer Critic’s Circle Award, Theater World Award, and Chicago’s famed Sarah Siddons Award. She has played Kathy in the West Coast premiere of Vanities at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Annie Oakley in the Jones Beach production of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, her Broadway debut as Sonia Wolsk in Neil Simon, Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager’s They’re Playing Our Song, and stunned audiences with her portrayal of Bella in Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Lost in Yonkers. National Tours: she starred in Seesaw (directed by Michael Bennett), opposite her husband, actor/writer Laurence Luckinbill in Whose Life is it Anyway? and Social Security (directed by Mike Nichols) and she co-starred with Tommy Tune in the first national tour of My One and Only.
In 2014, Lucie was named broadway.com’s DCs Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her work as Berthe, the dance trapeze, daredevil grandma, in the first national tour of Pippin. Lucie has received rave reviews for her portrayals of Maria Callas in Terrance McNally’s Tony Award-winning Master Class, and as Ruth in the pre-Broadway revival of Wonderful Town.
Ms. Arnaz made her UK debut as Alexandra in the Cameron Mackintosh musical, The Witches of Eastwick, and then returned to Broadway in 2006 as Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and in Pippin (2014). On February 11, 2019, Lucie recreated the role of Sonia Wolsk alongside her original co-star, Robert Klein, for a one-night-only 40th Anniversary reunion production of their acclaimed Broadway smash hit, They’re Playing Our Song, to a standing room only audience at The Music Box Theater in New York City.
Lucie Arnaz and her husband Laurence Luckinbill formed Arluck Entertainment, and their personal and professional collaboration has produced all of her concert work, his four one-man shows, and was the recipient of an Emmy Award for their television documentary, Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie. Together they share five beautiful children and three glorious grandchildren. Visit LucieArnaz.com