I don't really know anything about her, but this post hit my nostalgia button so I looked her up on wikipedia. Some cool things found therein:

In February 2012, she and six other Greenpeace activists boarded an oil drilling ship at Port Taranaki, and remained on it for 77 hours to stop it leaving for the Arctic where it was going to take part in oil exploration.[49] She was subsequently arrested and charged with burglary

Xena's ambiguous romantic relationship with travelling companion Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor)[35] led to Lawless becoming a lesbian icon, a role of which she has said she is proud.[35] She has said that during the years she was playing the role, she had been undecided on the nature of the relationship,[36] but in a 2003 interview with Lesbian News magazine, she said that after viewing the series finale, she had come to see Xena and Gabrielle's relationship as definitely gay, adding "they're married, man".