High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lucille "Lucy" Esmeralda McGillicuddy Ricardo is a fictional character from the American television series I Love Lucy, played by Lucille Ball. She is known for her red hair and for always getting into trouble. Her full name is given in the episodes "The Marriage License," "Fred and Ethel Fight," and "The Passports." Her birthdate is fully revealed in "The Passports" as August 6, 1921 (exactly ten years younger than Ball herself); however in the 1953 episode "Lucy Tells The Truth" in which Lucy is forced to go a day without lying she states her age as 33, making her born in 1920. She also is forced to acknowledge her correct weight as 129 lbs.