Biography
Lena Kathren Headey (born October 3, 1973) is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO epic fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Headey made her film debut in the mystery drama Waterland (1992). She continued to work steadily in British and American films and on television, before gaining further recognition wi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Trap
2023
Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay
A woman who has shut herself off from the world is slowly brought back to life through her friendship with a damaged young man. Feature adaptation of ...

DC League of Super-Pets
2022
as Lara (voice)
When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound, PB the potb...

9 Bullets
2022
as Gypsy Moon
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after ...

Gunpowder Milkshake
2021
as Scarlet
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its...

Twist
2021
as Sikes
A Dickens classic brought thrillingly up to date in the teeming heartland of modern London, where a group of street smart young hustlers plan the heis...

The Trap
2019
Director, Writer
Isolation and loneliness converge on an unexpected journey when intrigue and new come to town.

The Flood
2019
as Wendy
Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Throug...

The Flood
2019
Executive Producer
Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Throug...

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2019
as Self
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the...

Fighting with My Family
2019
as Julia 'Sweet Saraya' Knight
Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WW...

Walk Like a Panther
2018
as Miss Winters
A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.

Leading Lady Parts
2018
as Actress #6
The best women of British acting go to an audition for a dream role, primed to take on the role of a lifetime: that complex woman, the strong woman, a...

Thumper
2017
as Ellen
In a town of low-income and fractured families, a group of teens are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a da...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from differen...

Zipper
2015
as Jeannie Ellis
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experienc...

Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...

Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
2015
as Self
Glimpse the epic scale of Game of Thrones in this featurette that spends one day touring various Season 5 sets in Croatia, Spain and Ireland.

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Cersei Lannister
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...

300: Rise of an Empire
2014
as Queen Gorgo
Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massiv...

Low Down
2014
as Sheila Albany
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
2013
as Monica
Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues ...

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013
as Jocelyn Fray
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who prote...

The Purge
2013
as Mary Sandin
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During on...

Grimm Fairy Tales Animated
2012
as Sela Mathers
Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series.

Grimm Fairy Tales Animated
2012
Co-Producer
Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series.

Dredd
2012
as Ma-Ma
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to ta...

Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010
as Shannah
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.

Tell-Tale
2009
as Elizabeth
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.

Laid to Rest
2009
as Cindy
A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she m...

The Broken
2008
as Gina McVey
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting...

Whore
2008
as Mom
A group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever ima...

The Red Baron
2008
as Käthe
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by spo...

St Trinian's
2007
as Miss Dickinson
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless p...

The Contractor
2007
as DI Annette Ballard
Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he...

300
2007
as Gorgo
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against t...

Ultra
2006
as Penny / Ultra
Superhero Pearl Penalosa juggles the impossible combination of keeping up a social life, searching for love, and battling the forces of evil.

Imagine Me & You
2006
as Luce
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel...

Round About Five
2005
as Girlfriend
Desperate to get across London to meet his girlfriend off the Eurostar, a man persuades a pretty bicycle courier to take him on the back of her bike, ...

The Brothers Grimm
2005
as Angelika
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and ...

The Cave
2005
as Dr. Kathryn Jennings
After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produce...

The Actors
2003
as Dolores
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac...

Black Plague
2002
as Lady Matilda Mellerby
Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century.

Ripley's Game
2002
as Sarah Trevanny
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business a...

Possession
2002
as Blanche Glover
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in Lond...

The Gathering Storm
2002
as Ava Wigram
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...

The Parole Officer
2001
as Emma
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law ab...

Aberdeen
2000
as Kaisa
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story b...

Gossip
2000
as Cathy Jones
For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it be...

Onegin
1999
as Olga
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Inside-Out
1999
as Window-dresser
Girl cleaning windows of an Oxford St store catches the eye of a guy in the street who larks about much to her amusement.

The Man with Rain in His Shoes
1998
as Sylvia Weld
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love wit...

Face
1997
as Connie
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-be...

Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Young Sally
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust ...

Menage a Trois
1997
as Steph Reynolds
The new nurse of a wheel-chair bound woman becomes involved with the house's handyman.

The Grotesque
1995
as Cleo Coal
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo ...

Loved Up
1995
as Sarah
Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scen...

The Jungle Book
1994
as Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon
Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boo...

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
1994
as Elise Moran
A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in th...

Fair Game
1994
as Ellie
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student...

Century
1993
as Miriam
Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

The Summer House
1993
as Margaret
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still l...

The Remains of the Day
1993
as Lizzie
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...

Waterland
1992
as Young Mary
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life i...
Crooks
N/A
as Blanche
In sin city in 1968, a pair of hustlers, Johnny and Faye, rob the decaying Moonlight Casino. Faye double crosses Johnny and takes off with the money a...
Ballistic
N/A
as Nance Redfield
A mother who works for an ammunition manufacturing company is devastated when her son serving in Afghanistan is killed. Despair gives way to rage and ...
Jacqueline Ess
N/A
as Jacqueline Ess
Adapted from Clive Barker's short story, a woman develops an ability to transform flesh at will.
The Devil's Wedding
N/A
as The Devil's Bride
A tale told completely in rhyme sees the Devil caught between a rock and a hot place. His only way out? A soul searching deal with one more devious th...
Rita
N/A
as Rita
A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority - as well as her family - in a messy and unfiltered way.

Normal
N/A
as Moira
In the aftermath of a bank robbery, an interim sheriff uncovers a criminal conspiracy at the heart of his small-town community.

Long Pork
N/A
as Lily
It’s the not-so-distant future in Post-Roe America and society has fallen to an extremist Evangelical theocracy. All abortion - or what the government...
Violet
N/A
Director
The story follows two solo female travelers who immediately hit it off and decide to team up for the next leg of their adventure. As the journey conti...
Rita
N/A
Executive Producer
A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority - as well as her family - in a messy and unfiltered way.

H Is for Hawk
N/A
Producer
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscov...