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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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Filmography

300

2006
as Queen Gorgo

300: Rise of an Empire

2014
as Königin Gorgo

9 Bullets

2022
as Gypsy Moon

Aberdeen

2000
as Kaisa

Air Jaws: Night Stalker

2016
as Narrator (voice)

Beacon 23

2023
as Aster

Black Plague

2002
as Lady Matilda Mellerby

Century

1993
as Miriam

Danger Mouse (2015)

2015
as Jeopardy Mouse

Dredd

2012
as Ma-Ma

Face

1997
as Connie

Fair Game

1994
as Ellie

Fighting with My Family

2019
as Julia 'Sweet Saraya' Knight

Game of Thrones

2011
as Cersei Lannister

Gossip

2000
as Cathy Jones

Gunpowder Milkshake

2021
as Scarlet

Imagine Me & You

2005
as Luce

Inside-Out

1999
as Window-dresser

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

2016
as Lunafreya Nox Fleuret (voice)

Laid to Rest

2009
as Cindy

Leading Lady Parts

2018
as Actress #6

Lennon or McCartney

2014
as Herself (archive footage)

Loved Up

1995
as Sarah

Low Down

2014
as Sheila Albany

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

1994
as Elise Moran

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

2021
as Evil-Lyn

Masters of the Universe: Revolution

2024
as Lyn

Mrs. Dalloway

1997
as Young Sally

Onegin

1999
as Olga

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010
as Shannah

Possession

2002
as Blanche Glover

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2016
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Revelations: The Masters of the Universe: Revelation Aftershow

2021
as Self

Ripley's Game

2002
as Sarah Trevanny

Round About Five

2005
as Girlfriend

St. Trinian's

2007
as Miss Dickinson

Tell-Tale

2009
as Elizabeth

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

2008
as Sarah Connor

The Abandons

as Fiona

The Actors

2003
as Dolores

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

2013
as Monica

The Broken

2008
as Gina McVey

The Brothers Grimm

2005
as Angelika

The Cave

2005
as Dr. Kathryn Jennings

The Contractor

2007
as DI Annette Ballard

The Flood

2019
as Wendy

The Gathering Storm

2002
as Ava Wigram

The Grotesque

1995
as Cleo Coal

The Jungle Book

1994
as Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon

The Long Firm

2004

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013
as Jocelyn Fray

The Parole Officer

2001
as Emma

The Purge

2013
as Mary Sandin

The Red Baron

2008
as Käthe

The Remains of the Day

1993
as Lizzie

The Summer House

1993
as Margaret

Thumper

2017
as Ellen

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

2016
as Morgana Le Fey

Twice Upon a Yesterday

1998
as Sylvia Weld

Twist

2021
as Sikes

Unity

2015
as Herself - Narrator (voice)

Walk Like a Panther

2018
as Miss Winters

Waterland

1992
as Young Mary

White House Plumbers

2023
as Dorothy Hunt

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia

2020
as Morgana Le Fey

Zipper

2015
as Jeannie Ellis

Guest Star

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