Lena Headey

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“cersei starts off in this final season trapped in a web of her own making. She's desperately unhappy and everything that's happened becomes more real than it ever has for her. She's destroyed every good alliance, connection, love in her life — she was always destined to be alone. And until the very last minute, she is, as ever, in denial of what's actually happening.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

300 (2006)

The Purge (2013)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

Lena Kathren Headey is a British actress born in Hamilton, Bermuda on October 3rd, 1973. 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. Headey is best known for her role as Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011), where she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations as well as a Golden Globe nomination. Other credits include Possession (2002), The Remains of the Day (1993) and 300 (2006), where she starred as "Queen Gorgo", a heroic Spartan woman in the period film. 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, Headey appeared as Sarah Connor in a TV spin-off of the popular Terminator franchise, the FOX's television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). Most recently, she starred in the films Fighting with My Family (2019), Twist (2021), and the female-led action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake (2021).

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.