before wanderlust set in. She left for Europe "to go grape-picking on the Rhine." When she ran out of money, she took off for Australia and signed on with a gold-mining company operating in Kalgoorlie, a small town in the outback about 500 miles from Perth. She was subsequently relocated to a tiny mining camp two hours further away from civilization. One of the very few women miners, Lucy did the same grueling work as the men -- digging, mapping the ground, driving trucks, and pushing huge core samples of earth through a diamond saw. Lucy married in Australia and returned to Auckland shortly thereafter, where her daughter Daisy, now seven years old, was born. With renewed determination to pursue a career in acting, she began doing television commercials before landing her first real acting job at age 20 with a comedy troupe on television called "Funny Business." After a variety of
