Lena Headey

Lena Headey
Headey in 2019
Born
Lena Kathren Headey

(1973-10-03) 3 October 1973 (age 51)
Hamilton, Bermuda
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active1992–present
Spouse
  • Peter Loughran
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    (m. 2007; div. 2013)​
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    (m. 2022)​
Children2

Lena Kathren Headey (/ˈliːnə ˈhiːdi/ LEE-nə HEE-dee; born 3 October 1973) is an English actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for her portrayal of the Spartan queen in 300 (2006).

Headey made her film debut in the British film, The Clothes in the Wardrobe (US: The Summer House) (1992) alongside actresses Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, and Julie Walters.[1] This was followed by 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 (2006). 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 recurring roles as Big Mama in the animated series Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018–2020) and 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 Tales of Arcadia (2017–2018; 2020), and the puppet series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019).

  1. ^ "Screen Two: The Clothes in the Wardrobe". BBC. 17 January 1993. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.