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Lena Headey

Lena Kathren Headey was born in Hamilton on the island of Bermuda on 3 October 1973, the daughter of English parents Sue and John Headey. Her father, a police officer from Yorkshire, was stationed in Hamilton at the time in the Bermuda Police Service. She has one younger brother named Tim. She is of Irish descent. When she was five, her family returned to England, initially settling in Somerset before moving again to Kirkheaton when she was 11. She took ballet lessons as a child. Headey had her


Aliases
  • Lena Kathren Headey
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Game of Thrones

2011
as Cersei Lannister

300

2006
as Queen Gorgo

The Purge

2013
as Mary Sandin

300: Rise of an Empire

2014
as Königin Gorgo

Fighting with My Family

2019
as Julia 'Sweet Saraya' Knight

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2016
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia

2020
as Morgana Le Fey

White House Plumbers

2023
as Dorothy Hunt

Dredd

2012
as Ma-Ma

The Brothers Grimm

2005
as Angelika

Unity

2015
as Herself - Narrator (voice)

St. Trinian's

2007
as Miss Dickinson

Laid to Rest

2009
as Cindy

Onegin

1999
as Olga

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

2016
as Lunafreya Nox Fleuret (voice)

Beacon 23

2023
as Aster

The Grotesque

1995
as Cleo Coal

The Gathering Storm

2002
as Ava Wigram

Fair Game

1994
as Ellie

Gossip

2000
as Cathy Jones

The Red Baron

2008
as Käthe

9 Bullets

2022
as Gypsy Moon

Possession

2002
as Blanche Glover

The Contractor

2007
as DI Annette Ballard

The Broken

2008
as Gina McVey

Leading Lady Parts

2018
as Actress #6

The Summer House

1993
as Margaret

Inside-Out

1999
as Window-dresser

Low Down

2014
as Sheila Albany

Twice Upon a Yesterday

1998
as Sylvia Weld

Black Plague

2002
as Lady Matilda Mellerby

The Actors

2003
as Dolores

Loved Up

1995
as Sarah

Round About Five

2005
as Girlfriend

Waterland

1992
as Young Mary

Aberdeen

2000
as Kaisa

The Jungle Book

1994
as Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon

Ripley's Game

2002
as Sarah Trevanny

Twist

2021
as Sikes

Zipper

2015
as Jeannie Ellis

Danger Mouse (2015)

2015
as Jeopardy Mouse

Walk Like a Panther

2018
as Miss Winters

The Flood

2019
as Wendy

Lennon or McCartney

2014
as Herself (archive footage)

Face

1997
as Connie

Mrs. Dalloway

1997
as Young Sally

Thumper

2017
as Ellen

Air Jaws: Night Stalker

2016
as Narrator (voice)

The Cave

2005
as Dr. Kathryn Jennings

Century

1993
as Miriam

Tell-Tale

2009
as Elizabeth

Guest Star

Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Raph's Ride-Along
2020
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Chris Pine, Lena Headey, Panic! At the Disco
2016
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Michael Ian Black; Lena Headey
2013
Episode White Collar
Taking Account
2011
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Michael Clarke Duncan, Lena Headey
2011
Episode RuPaul's Drag Race
Scream Queens
2014
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Hidden City Job
2020
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bug Busters
2018
Episode MacGyver
Trail to Doomsday
1994
Episode Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Lena Headey
2018
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bullhop
2019
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Many Unhappy Returns
2019
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Battle Nexus: New York
2020
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #2862
2008
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Anthony Davis; Lena Headey; NeedToBreathe
2012
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jon Favreau, Lena Headey
2016
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Insane in the Mama Train
2019
Episode Chelsea Lately
Lena Headey
2014
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Chris Pine, Lena Headey, Kellen Erskine
2019
Episode The Hunger
Menage a Trois
1997
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Turtle-dega Nights: The Ballad of Rat Man
2019
Episode Under A Rock with Tig Notaro
Lena Headey
2019
Episode Conan (2010)
The Exotic Marigold Hotel 2: Dench Does Dallas
2013
Episode Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Finale (4): Rise
2020