Editing Xena: Warrior Princess (section)

===Casting===
[[File:Renee O'Connor Xena Con 2007.jpg|thumb|left|180px|[[Renee O'Connor]] at the 2007 ''Xena'' Convention.]]
''Xena: Warrior Princess'' starred [[Lucy Lawless]] as Xena and [[Renee O'Connor]] as [[Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)|Gabrielle]]. The first choice for Xena was the British actress [[Vanessa Angel (English actress)|Vanessa Angel]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Xena Gets the Axe |website=BBC News |date=October 17, 2000 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/976257.stm |access-date=November 2, 2007}}</ref> but an illness prevented her from travelling, and the role was offered to four other actresses before the relatively unknown Lawless. [[Sunny Doench]] was cast as Gabrielle, but she did not want to leave her boyfriend in the United States, so O'Connor, who had appeared in ''Hercules'' in another role, was chosen.

The show features a wide assortment of recurring characters, many of them portrayed by New Zealand actors. [[Ted Raimi]] became a core member of the cast from the second season as [[Joxer]]. Actor [[Kevin Tod Smith]] played popular character [[Ares (Hercules and Xena)|Ares]], God of War, and [[Alexandra Tydings]] played his counterpart [[Aphrodite (Xena and Hercules)|Aphrodite]], Goddess of Love. [[Marton Csokas]] portrayed both [[Borias]] and Krafstar. Other notables included [[Karl Urban]] in a variety of roles such as [[Cupid]] and [[Caesar (Xena)|Caesar]], [[Hudson Leick]] as Xena's nemesis [[Callisto (Xena)|Callisto]] (Leick also played a body-switched [[Xena]] in the episode "Intimate Stranger"<ref name="stranger">{{cite episode |title=Intimate Stranger  |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=November 11, 1996}}</ref>), [[Claire Stansfield]] as the evil [[shaman]]ess [[Alti]], and a number of trusted friends – [[Jennifer Sky]] as feisty sidekick [[Amarice]], [[Danielle Cormack]] as Amazon regent [[Ephiny]], [[Bruce Campbell]] as [[Autolycus]] King of Thieves, [[Robert Trebor]] as dodgy entrepreneur [[Salmoneus]], [[William Gregory Lee]] as the warrior-poet [[Virgil (Xena)|Virgil]] and [[Tim Omundson]] as the [[spiritual healer]] [[Eli (Xena)|Eli]].
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