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Lena Headey

Birth date: 01.01.1970

Lena Headey is a British actress of theatre and film who is best known for her appearances in The Brothers Grimm (2005), Possession (2002), and The Remains of the Day (1993). Headey is starring as Queen Gorgo, heroic Spartan woman in the period drama 300 (2006), by director Zack Snyder. She was born Lena Headey on October 3, 1973, in Bermuda, where her father, a Yorkshire police cadet, was sent shortly before she was born. She was raised in Bermuda living on the ocean, until she was 5. 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 17, 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 in clubs in south London, where a former boxer had been teaching her to spar. During her film career, spanning over 15 years, Headey showed 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 lover in Imagine Me & You (2005). Headey's film career took 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 Shooter (2007). Outside of her acting profession, Lena Headey continues taking her boxing lessons in London. She is a vegetarian, and also remains loyal to yoga, which she discovered during her work in India. Headey has never been back to her birthplace in Bermuda, she is currently residing in London, England.

Filmography

# Vivaldi (2008) .... Norina # The Brøken (2008) .... Gina McVey # Rote Baron, Der (2007) .... Käte ... aka The Red Baron (International: English title) # The Shooter (2007) .... Ballard # "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" .... Sarah Connor (2 episodes, 2007) - Episode #1.1 (2007) TV Episode .... Sarah Connor - Pilot (????) TV Episode .... Sarah Connor # 300 movie buy and download page (2006) .... Queen Gorgo ... aka 300 movie buy and download page: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) ... aka Frank Miller's 300 movie buy and download page (USA: complete title) # Ultra (2006) (TV) .... Penny/Ultra # Imagine Me & You (2005) .... Luce ... aka Hochzeit zu dritt, Eine (Germany) ... aka Imagine Me and You (Canada: English title: festival title) # The Brothers Grimm (2005) .... Angelika # The Cave (2005) .... Kathryn # The Long Firm (2004) (TV) .... Ruby Ryder # No Verbal Response (2003) .... Dr. Megan Pillay # The Actors (2003) .... Dolores # Ripley's Game (2002) .... Sarah Trevanny ... aka Gioco di Ripley, Il (Italy) # Possession (2002) .... Blanche Glover # The Gathering Storm (2002) (TV) .... Ava Wigram # The Parole Officer (2001) .... Emma # Anazapta (2001) .... Matilda # Round About Five (2001) .... Girlfriend # Aberdeen (2000) .... Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller # Gossip (2000/I) .... Cathy Jones # Ropewalk (2000) .... Allison ... aka Hanginaround # Onegin (1999) .... Olga Larina # Inside-Out (1999) # The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998) .... Sylvia Weld ... aka If Only... (Australia) (France) (UK) ... aka Lieber gestern als nie (Germany) ... aka Lluvia en los zapatos (Spain) ... aka Twice Upon a Yesterday (USA) # Merlin (1998/II) (TV) .... Queen Guinevere # Mrs. Dalloway (1997) .... Young Sally ... aka Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway # Face (1997/I) .... Connie # "The Hunger" .... Steph Reynolds (1 episode, 1997) - Menage a Trois (1997) TV Episode .... Steph Reynolds # "Kavanagh QC" .... Natasha Jackson (1 episode, 1997) - Diplomatic Baggage (1997) TV Episode .... Natasha Jackson # "Gold" (1997) TV Series .... Colette # "Ballykissangel" .... Jenny (1 episode, 1996) - The Things We Do for Love (1996) TV Episode .... Jenny # The Grotesque (1995) .... Cleo Coal ... aka Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (USA) ... aka Grave Indiscretion (USA: video title) # Loved Up (1995) (TV) .... Sarah # "Band of Gold" (1995) (mini) TV Series .... Colette # Devil's Advocate (1995) (TV) .... Clare Rigby # The Jungle Book (1994) .... Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon ... aka Libro de la selva, El (USA: Spanish title) ... aka Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (USA: complete title) # MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994) (TV) .... Elise Moran # Fair Game (1994) (TV) .... Ellie # The Remains of the Day (1993) .... Lizzie # "Spender" (2 episodes, 1993) - Best Friends (1993) TV Episode - The More Things Change (1993) TV Episode # "Soldier Soldier" .... Shenna Bowles (3 episodes, 1993) - Base Details (1993) TV Episode .... Shenna Bowles - Live Fire (1993) TV Episode .... Shenna Bowles - Shifting Sands (1993) TV Episode .... Shenna Bowles # Century (1993) .... Miriam # Waterland (1992) .... Young Mary # Clothes in the Wardrobe (1992) (TV) .... Margaret