Lena Headey

Lena Headey

Date of Birth
October 3, 1973, Hamilton, Bermuda

Height
5' 5?" (1.66 m)

Mini Biography
Lena Headey is a British actress. Headey is best known for her role as "Cersei Lannister" in Game of Thrones (2011) (2011-present) and The Brothers Grimm (2005), Possession (2002), and The Remains of the Day (1993). Headey stars as "Queen Gorgo", a heroic Spartan woman in the period film, 300 (2006), by director Zack Snyder.

Headey was born in Hamilton, Bermuda, to British parents Sue and John Headey. Her father, a Yorkshire police cadet, was sent to Bermuda shortly before her birth. She was raised there, living by the ocean until she was five. Back in England, she was brought up in Yorkshire before moving to London in her teens. Headey had not gone to drama school before she became an actress. At the age of seventeen, Headey's performance in a one-off show in the company of six school friends caught the attention of a casting agent, who took a photo and asked her to audition. Eventually, Headey was cast in Waterland (1992), which became her big-screen debut. She honed her natural acting talent while filming and also took archery classes and horse training. She also took boxing classes in clubs in south London, where a former boxer had been teaching her to spar. During her film career, spanning over 15 years, Headey has shown her range in a variety of roles, playing characters from Amazon-type warriors and action-minded women in The Cave (2005) and The Brothers Grimm (2005), to a lesbian florist in Imagine Me & You (2005).

Headey's film career has taken her all over the world. She was in India for the filming of The Jungle Book (1994), then in St. Petersburg, Russia, for filming Onegin (1999), and in Norway for filming of Aberdeen (2000). In 2005 Headey was filming in Romania and in Mexico, then spent four months in Prague, Czech Republic, where a forest was designed and built for filming The Brothers Grimm (2005), with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. During 2006 Headey was in Canada for the filming of 300 (2006), then went to locations in Bulgaria for shooting The Contractor (2007), and Germany and in Czech Republic for the filming of The Red Baron (2008).

She also played Gina McVey in the horror thriller The Broken (2008), and Elizabeth in Tell-Tale (2009). In addition to her film-work, Heady appeared as Sarah Connor in a TV spin-off of the popular "Terminator" film franchise, the FOX's television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008).

Outside of her acting profession, Headey continued taking boxing lessons in London. She is a vegetarian and also remains loyal to yoga, which she discovered during her work in India. She has never been back to her birthplace in Bermuda; she shares her time between her homes in London, England, and Los Angeles, California.

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**bakens** · 5th March 2014, 05:57

300 Rise of an Empire - Los Angeles Premiere 04.03.2014

**Bartek** · 5th March 2014, 09:01

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**benedicto** · 10th March 2014, 00:29

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 04: Lena Headey at the '300: Rise Of An Empire' Press Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel on March 4, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.

**Bartek** · 19th March 2014, 07:48

Lena Headey - 'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Premiere - March 18-2014 x18

**benedicto** · 19th March 2014, 16:10

**windowsxp02** · 23rd September 2015, 00:01

@ 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, September 20, 2015

**windowsxp02** · 31st January 2016, 16:49

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Hollywood Premiere in Los Angeles, January 2016

**Theupskirtrulez** · 6th January 2017, 12:03

Lena Headey - Pokies

**albertadel** · 7th January 2017, 05:46

Lena Headey full frontal and back from Games of Thrones

**exodus** · 7th January 2017, 09:09

Originally Posted by albertadel

Lena Headey full frontal and back from Games of Thrones

body double, they digitally added in her face on this scene

**Marquez** · 7th January 2017, 09:59

Exodus is correct :

https://ew.com/article/2015/06/18/gam...le-van-cleave/

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