Xena star's new baby

Lucy Lawless, former star of television blockbuster Xena: Warrior Princess, has given birth to a boy in Auckland.

Judah Miro Tapert was born just before midnight on Tuesday in the home of Lawless, 34, and her producer-husband, Rob Tapert. The baby weighed a healthy 3850gm (8lbs 8oz).

Lawless and Tapert, married since 1998, have another son, Julius Robert, 2, and Lawless has a daughter, Daisy Lawless, 13, from a previous marriage.

Lawless appeared in the new-season premiere of The X-Files, and the comedy Just Shoot Me and makes a cameo appearance in the new Spider-Man movie