High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xena: Warrior Princess is an American television cult series, a supernatural fantasy adventure that aired from September 4, 1995 until May 21, 2001. The series was created in 1995 by writer-director-producer Robert Tapert under his production tag, Renaissance Pictures with later co-executive producers being John Schulian, R. J. Stewart and Sam Raimi. The series narrative follows Xena (played by Lucy Lawless), a warrior in a quest to seek redemption for her past sins as a ruthless warlord by using her formidable fighting skills to help people.