Lena Headey

Lena Headey

1973-10-03 Hamilton, Bermuda 73 Credits

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...

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The Trap

The Trap

2023

Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay

Producing Directing Writing

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

DC League of Super-Pets

2022

as Lara (voice)

7.2
Acting

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

9 Bullets

2022

as Gypsy Moon

5.3
Acting

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

Gunpowder Milkshake

2021

as Scarlet

6.3
Acting

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

Twist

2021

as Sikes

5.8
Acting

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

The Trap

2019

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Isolation and loneliness converge on an unexpected journey when intrigue and new come to town.

The Flood

The Flood

2019

as Wendy

5.4
Acting

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

The Flood

2019

Executive Producer

5.4
Producing

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

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

2019

as Self

7.1
Acting

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

Fighting with My Family

2019

as Julia 'Sweet Saraya' Knight

6.8
Acting

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

Walk Like a Panther

2018

as Miss Winters

6.2
Acting

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

Leading Lady Parts

2018

as Actress #6

7.8
Acting

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

Thumper

2017

as Ellen

5.6
Acting

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

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2016

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

6.2
Acting

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

Zipper

2015

as Jeannie Ellis

5.5
Acting

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

Unity

2015

as Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

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

Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life

2015

as Self

7.6
Acting

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

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

2015

as Cersei Lannister

8.6
Acting

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

300: Rise of an Empire

2014

as Queen Gorgo

6.1
Acting

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

Low Down

2014

as Sheila Albany

5.5
Acting

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

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

2013

as Monica

5.7
Acting

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

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013

as Jocelyn Fray

6.4
Acting

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

The Purge

2013

as Mary Sandin

6.3
Acting

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

Grimm Fairy Tales Animated

2012

as Sela Mathers

Acting

Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series.

Grimm Fairy Tales Animated

Grimm Fairy Tales Animated

2012

Co-Producer

Producing

Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series.

Dredd

Dredd

2012

as Ma-Ma

6.8
Acting

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

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010

as Shannah

4.6
Acting

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.

Tell-Tale

Tell-Tale

2009

as Elizabeth

5.4
Acting

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

Laid to Rest

2009

as Cindy

5.3
Acting

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

The Broken

2008

as Gina McVey

5.4
Acting

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

Whore

2008

as Mom

5.8
Acting

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

The Red Baron

2008

as Käthe

6.6
Acting

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

St Trinian's

2007

as Miss Dickinson

5.9
Acting

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

The Contractor

2007

as DI Annette Ballard

5.5
Acting

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

300

2007

as Gorgo

7.2
Acting

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

Ultra

2006

as Penny / Ultra

Acting

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

Imagine Me & You

2006

as Luce

7.6
Acting

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

Round About Five

2005

as Girlfriend

7.5
Acting

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

The Brothers Grimm

2005

as Angelika

5.8
Acting

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and ...

The Cave

The Cave

2005

as Dr. Kathryn Jennings

5.4
Acting

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

The Actors

2003

as Dolores

5.7
Acting

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

Black Plague

2002

as Lady Matilda Mellerby

5.2
Acting

Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century.

Ripley's Game

Ripley's Game

2002

as Sarah Trevanny

6.4
Acting

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

Possession

2002

as Blanche Glover

6.0
Acting

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

The Gathering Storm

2002

as Ava Wigram

6.6
Acting

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

The Parole Officer

2001

as Emma

5.9
Acting

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

Aberdeen

2000

as Kaisa

6.5
Acting

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

Gossip

2000

as Cathy Jones

5.8
Acting

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

Onegin

1999

as Olga

6.2
Acting

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Inside-Out

Inside-Out

1999

as Window-dresser

6.2
Acting

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

The Man with Rain in His Shoes

1998

as Sylvia Weld

4.9
Acting

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

Face

1997

as Connie

6.3
Acting

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

Mrs. Dalloway

1997

as Young Sally

5.6
Acting

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

Menage a Trois

1997

as Steph Reynolds

Acting

The new nurse of a wheel-chair bound woman becomes involved with the house's handyman.

The Grotesque

The Grotesque

1995

as Cleo Coal

5.3
Acting

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

Loved Up

1995

as Sarah

5.8
Acting

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

The Jungle Book

1994

as Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon

5.9
Acting

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

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

1994

as Elise Moran

6.0
Acting

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

Fair Game

1994

as Ellie

3.5
Acting

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

Century

1993

as Miriam

5.3
Acting

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

The Summer House

The Summer House

1993

as Margaret

5.4
Acting

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

The Remains of the Day

1993

as Lizzie

7.4
Acting

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

Waterland

1992

as Young Mary

6.3
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Normal

N/A

as Moira

Acting

In the aftermath of a bank robbery, an interim sheriff uncovers a criminal conspiracy at the heart of his small-town community.

Long Pork

Long Pork

N/A

as Lily

Acting

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

Directing

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

Producing

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

H Is for Hawk

N/A

Producer

Producing

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscov...