Lena Kathren Headey (born 3 October 1973) is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO epic fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Headey made her film debut in the mystery drama Waterland (1992). She continued to work steadily in British and American films and on television, before gaining further recognition with her lead performances in the films The Brothers Grimm (2005) and 300 (2007). Her other film credits include The Remains of the Day (1993), The Jungle Book (1994), Mrs Dalloway (1997), Ripley’s Game (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Dredd (2012), The Purge (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), and Fighting with My Family (2019).
Outside of film, Headey starred as Sarah Connor in the science fiction television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) and had a recurring role as Amelia Hughes in the animated web series Infinity Train (2019–2021). She provided voices for the role-playing video game Risen (2009) and the video game tie-in film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016), as well as the animated series Danger Mouse (2015–2017) and Trollhunters (2017–2018), and puppet-animated series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019).
Lena Headey Biography / Wiki
| Name | Lena Headey |
| Also Know | ë ˆë‚˜ 헤디, Λίνα Χίντι, Лина Хиди, Лена Хеди, Лена Хиди, Lena Heady, Lena Kathren Headey, ç³å¨œÂ·æµ·è’‚ |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hamilton, Bermuda |
| Date of Birth | 1973-10-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 49 |
| Deathday |
Lena Headey Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Broken | Gina McVey | 2008-11-15 | The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting… |
| Twice Upon a Yesterday | Sylvia Weld | 1998-11-27 | Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He’s got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he’s still in love wit… |
| Round About Five | Girlfriend | 2005-08-28 | Desperate to get across London to meet his girlfriend off the Eurostar, a man persuades a pretty bicycle courier to take him on the back of her bike, … |
| Loved Up | Sarah | 1995-08-21 | Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a “raver” who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scen… |
| Black Plague | Lady Matilda Mellerby | 2002-12-01 | Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century…. |
| Inside-Out | Window-dresser | 1999-01-01 | Girl cleaning windows of an Oxford St store catches the eye of a guy in the street who larks about much to her amusement…. |
| Jacqueline Ess | Jacqueline Ess | Adapted from Clive Barker’s short story, a woman develops an ability to transform flesh at will…. | |
| Ultra | Penny / Ultra | 2006-09-01 | Superhero Pearl Penalosa juggles the impossible combination of keeping up a social life, searching for love, and battling the forces of evil…. |
| The Flood | Wendy | 2019-06-17 | Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Throug… |
| Grimm Fairy Tales Animated | Sela Mathers | 2012-10-15 | Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series…. |
| Rita | Rita | A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority – as well as her family – in a messy and unfiltered way…. | |
| 9 Bullets | Gypsy Moon | 2022-04-14 | A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after … |
| Air Jaws: Night Stalker | Narrator | 2016-07-04 | Investigating how great white sharks are able to hunt in complete darkness…. |
| 300 | Queen Gorgo | 2007-03-07 | Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, “300” is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against t… |
| Imagine Me & You | Luce | 2005-05-16 | During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel… |
| The Parole Officer | Emma | 2001-08-10 | A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law ab… |
| Aberdeen | Kaisa | 2000-07-05 | Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story b… |
| Tell-Tale | Elizabeth | 2009-04-24 | A man’s recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor’s killer before a similar fate befalls him…. |
| Gossip | Cathy Jones | 2000-04-21 | For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it be… |
| The Purge | Mary Sandin | 2013-05-31 | Given the country’s overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During on… |
| The Cave | Dr. Kathryn Jennings | 2005-08-26 | After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produce… |
| Zipper | Jeannie Ellis | 2015-08-28 | Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experie… |
| Fair Game | Ellie | 1994-06-11 | It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student… |
| Fighting with My Family | Julia ‘Sweet Saraya’ Knight | 2019-02-14 | Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WW… |
| Gunpowder Milkshake | Scarlet | 2021-07-14 | To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its… |
| Crooks | This Project is currently in development…. | ||
| Svalta | On their summer vacation, a family head to a remote Swedish island where they discover a serial killer is on the loose, but the locals have no interes… | ||
| The Jungle Book | Katherine ‘Kitty’ Brydon | 1994-12-23 | Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boo… |
| The Brothers Grimm | Angelika | 2005-08-26 | Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and … |
| The Red Baron | Käthe | 2008-03-29 | Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by spo… |
| The Contractor | DI Annette Ballard | 2007-07-10 | Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where h… |
| Laid to Rest | Cindy | 2009-04-02 | A woman wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no recollection of who she is, soon realising that she’s the victim of a crazed serial k… |
| Dredd | Ma-Ma | 2012-09-07 | In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to ta… |
| 300: Rise of an Empire | Queen Gorgo | 2014-03-05 | Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistokles faces the massiv… |
| The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Monica | 2013-12-05 | Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi’s life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues … |
| Thumper | Ellen | 2017-04-20 | In a town of low-income and fractured families, a group of teens are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a da… |
| The Summer House | Margaret | 1993-01-01 | Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall… |
| Twist | Sikes | 2021-01-22 | A Dickens classic brought thrillingly up to date in the teeming heartland of modern London, where a group of street smart young hustlers plan the heis… |
| Onegin | Olga | 1999-12-22 | In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat – a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from… |
| Face | Connie | 1997-09-26 | Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-be… |
| The Actors | Dolores | 2003-03-16 | During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O’Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac… |
| The Grotesque | Cleo Coal | 1995-09-09 | Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He’s not thrilled when daughter Cleo … |
| Waterland | Young Mary | 1992-08-21 | The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life i… |
| Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience | Cersei Lannister | 2015-01-29 | The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Ca… |
| Ripley’s Game | Sarah Trevanny | 2002-09-02 | Tom Ripley – cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous – lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business a… |
| Leading Lady Parts | Actress #6 | 2018-03-08 | The best women of British acting go to an audition for a dream role, primed to take on the role of a lifetime: that complex woman, the strong woman, a… |
| St. Trinian’s | Miss Dickinson | 2007-12-21 | When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless p… |
| Possession | Blanche Glover | 2002-10-02 | Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in Lond… |
| The Gathering Storm | Ava Wigram | 2002-04-22 | A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo… |
| Low Down | Sheila Albany | 2014-01-19 | The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father’s struggle — and failure — to kick his heroin habit…. |
| MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday | Elise Moran | 1994-11-24 | A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in th… |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Young Sally | 1997-09-01 | Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London’s upper-crust … |
| The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Jocelyn Fray | 2013-08-21 | In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who pro… |
| Century | Miriam | 1993-12-31 | Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science…. |
| Pete Smalls Is Dead | Shannah | 2010-09-17 | Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead…. |
| Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Lady Catherine de Bourgh | 2016-02-04 | A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from differen… |
| Walk Like a Panther | Miss Winters | 2018-03-09 | A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure…. |
| Whore | Mom | 2008-10-20 | A group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever ima… |
| The Remains of the Day | Lizzie | 1993-11-05 | A rule bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with… |
| Game of Thrones: The Last Watch | Herself | 2019-05-26 | For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,†chronicling the creation of… |
| DC League of Super-Pets | Lara (voice) | 2022-07-27 | When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack – Ace the hound, PB the potb… |
| Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV | Lunafreya Nox Fleuret (voice) | 2016-07-09 | The magical kingdom of Lucis is home to the world’s last remaining Crystal, and the menacing empire of Niflheim is determined to steal it. King Regi… |
| Unity | Self – Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 | Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on — none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe… |
Lena Headey Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Trap | Director | 2019-08-08 | Isolation and loneliness converge on an unexpected journey when intrigue and new come to town…. |
| Violet | Director | The story follows two solo female travelers who immediately hit it off and decide to team up for the next leg of their adventure. As the journey conti… | |
Lena Headey Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Flood | Executive Producer | 2019-06-17 | Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Throug… |
| Rita | Executive Producer | A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority – as well as her family – in a messy and unfiltered way…. | |
| Grimm Fairy Tales Animated | Co-Producer | 2012-10-15 | Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Trap | Writer | 2019-08-08 | Isolation and loneliness converge on an unexpected journey when intrigue and new come to town…. |
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