Lena Kathren Headey 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, for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination, and Queen Gorgo in 300. Headey made her film debut in the British film, The Clothes in the Wardrobe alongside film greats Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, and Julie Walters. This was followed by the mystery drama Waterland. She continued to work steadily in British and American films and on television, before gaining further recognition with her lead performances in the films The Brothers Grimm and 300. Her other film credits include The Remains of the Day, The Jungle Book, Mrs Dalloway, Ripley's Game, Imagine Me & You, Dredd, The Purge, 300: Rise of an Empire, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Fighting with My Family.
Known For
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Cast Credits
Masters of the Universe: Revolution (2024)
Starring as Evil-Lyn
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: The Scepter and The Sword (Jan 25, 2024)
- Episode 1x04: The Dogs of War (Jan 25, 2024)
- Episode 1x03: More Things in Heaven and Eternia (Jan 25, 2024)
- Episode 1x02: Ascension (Jan 25, 2024)
Beacon 23 (2023)
Starring as Aster Calyx
(6 episodes)
- Episode 1x08: Adamantine (Dec 17, 2023)
- Episode 1x07: End Transmission (Dec 17, 2023)
- Episode 1x05: Rocky (Dec 3, 2023)
- Episode 1x03: Why Can't We Go On as Three? (Nov 19, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: Wreckers (Nov 12, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: Corbenic (Nov 12, 2023)
Guest starring as Aster Calyx
(2 episodes)
White House Plumbers (2023)
Starring as Dorothy Hunt
(5 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: True Believers (May 29, 2023)
- Episode 1x04: The Writer's Wife (May 22, 2023)
- Episode 1x03: Don't Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate (May 15, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: Please Destroy This, Huh? (May 8, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: The Beverly Hills Burglary (May 1, 2023)
Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021)
Starring as Evil-Lyn
(10 episodes)
- Episode 2x05: Comes with Everything You See Here (Nov 23, 2021)
- Episode 2x04: Hope, For a Destination (Nov 23, 2021)
- Episode 2x03: The Gutter Rat (Nov 23, 2021)
- Episode 2x02: Reason and Blood (Nov 23, 2021)
- Episode 2x01: Cleaved in Twain (Nov 23, 2021)
- Episode 1x05: The Forge at the Forest of Forever (Jul 23, 2021)
- Episode 1x04: Land of the Dead (Jul 23, 2021)
- Episode 1x03: The Most Dangerous Man in Eternia (Jul 23, 2021)
- Episode 1x02: Poisoned Chalice (Jul 23, 2021)
- Episode 1x01: The Power of Grayskull (Jul 23, 2021)
Guest starring as Old Hag / Majestra
- Episode 1x02: Poisoned Chalice (Jul 23, 2021)
GMA3: What You Need to Know (2020)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 2x403: Eric Adams, Lional Dalton, Dr. Vernard Hodges, Dr. Terrence Ferguson, Lena Headey (Apr 11, 2022)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
Guest starring as Maudra Fara
(6 episodes)
- Episode 1x10: A Single Piece Was Lost (Aug 30, 2019)
- Episode 1x09: The Crystal Calls (Aug 30, 2019)
- Episode 1x08: Prophets Don't Know Everything (Aug 30, 2019)
- Episode 1x07: Time to Make ... My Move (Aug 30, 2019)
- Episode 1x06: By Gelfling Hand ... (Aug 30, 2019)
- Episode 1x03: What Was Sundered and Undone (Aug 30, 2019)
Infinity Train (2019)
Guest starring as Amelia Hughes
(13 episodes)
- Episode 4x09: The Castle Car (Apr 15, 2021)
- Episode 4x06: The Party Car (Apr 15, 2021)
- Episode 4x01: The Twin Tapes (Apr 15, 2021)
- Episode 3x09: The Origami Car (Aug 27, 2020)
- Episode 3x08: The Hey Ho Whoa Car (Aug 20, 2020)
- Episode 3x07: The Canyon of the Golden Winged Snakes Car (Aug 20, 2020)
- Episode 3x06: The Campfire Car (Aug 20, 2020)
- Episode 3x03: The Debutante Ball Car (Aug 13, 2020)
- Episode 2x07: The Mall Car (Jan 9, 2020)
- Episode 1x10: The Engine (Aug 9, 2019)
- Episode 1x09: The Past Car (Aug 9, 2019)
- Episode 1x08: The Ball Pit Car (Aug 8, 2019)
- Episode 1x05: The Cat's Car (Aug 7, 2019)
Under a Rock with Tig Notaro (2019)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 2x01: Lena Headey (Nov 5, 2019)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 2016-04-20: Lena Headey, Jon Favreau (Apr 20, 2016)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls (2014)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 4x03: Lena Headey (May 21, 2018)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 2014-03-19: Wendy Williams, Lena Headey, Eugene Mirman (Mar 19, 2014)
Game of Thrones (2011)
Starring as Queen Cersei Lannister
(61 episodes)
- Episode 8x06: The Iron Throne (May 19, 2019)
- Episode 8x05: The Bells (May 12, 2019)
- Episode 8x04: The Last of the Starks (May 5, 2019)
- Episode 8x01: Winterfell (Apr 14, 2019)
- Episode 7x07: The Dragon and the Wolf (Aug 27, 2017)
- Episode 7x05: Eastwatch (Aug 13, 2017)
- Episode 7x04: The Spoils of War (Aug 6, 2017)
- Episode 7x03: The Queen's Justice (Jul 30, 2017)
- Episode 7x02: Stormborn (Jul 23, 2017)
- Episode 7x01: Dragonstone (Jul 16, 2017)
- Episode 6x10: The Winds of Winter (Jun 26, 2016)
- Episode 6x08: No One (Jun 12, 2016)
- Episode 6x07: The Broken Man (Jun 5, 2016)
- Episode 6x06: Blood of My Blood (May 29, 2016)
- Episode 6x04: Book of the Stranger (May 15, 2016)
- Episode 6x03: Oathbreaker (May 8, 2016)
- Episode 6x02: Home (May 1, 2016)
- Episode 6x01: The Red Woman (Apr 24, 2016)
- Episode 5x10: Mother's Mercy (Jun 14, 2015)
- Episode 5x08: Hardhome (May 31, 2015)
- Episode 5x07: The Gift (May 24, 2015)
- Episode 5x06: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken (May 17, 2015)
- Episode 5x04: Sons of the Harpy (May 3, 2015)
- Episode 5x03: High Sparrow (Apr 26, 2015)
- Episode 5x02: The House of Black and White (Apr 19, 2015)
- Episode 5x01: The Wars to Come (Apr 12, 2015)
- Episode 4x10: The Children (Jun 15, 2014)
- Episode 4x07: Mockingbird (May 18, 2014)
- Episode 4x06: The Laws of Gods and Men (May 11, 2014)
- Episode 4x05: First of His Name (May 4, 2014)
- Episode 4x04: Oathkeeper (Apr 27, 2014)
- Episode 4x03: Breaker of Chains (Apr 20, 2014)
- Episode 4x02: The Lion and the Rose (Apr 13, 2014)
- Episode 4x01: Two Swords (Apr 6, 2014)
- Episode 3x10: Mhysa (Jun 9, 2013)
- Episode 3x08: Second Sons (May 19, 2013)
- Episode 3x06: The Climb (May 5, 2013)
- Episode 3x05: Kissed by Fire (Apr 28, 2013)
- Episode 3x04: And Now His Watch is Ended (Apr 21, 2013)
- Episode 3x03: Walk of Punishment (Apr 14, 2013)
- Episode 3x02: Dark Wings, Dark Words (Apr 7, 2013)
- Episode 3x01: Valar Dohaeris (Mar 31, 2013)
- Episode 2x10: Valar Morghulis (Jun 3, 2012)
- Episode 2x09: Blackwater (May 27, 2012)
- Episode 2x08: The Prince of Winterfell (May 20, 2012)
- Episode 2x07: A Man Without Honor (May 13, 2012)
- Episode 2x06: The Old Gods and the New (May 6, 2012)
- Episode 2x05: The Ghost of Harrenhal (Apr 29, 2012)
- Episode 2x03: What is Dead May Never Die (Apr 15, 2012)
- Episode 2x02: The Night Lands (Apr 8, 2012)
- Episode 2x01: The North Remembers (Apr 1, 2012)
- Episode 1x10: Fire and Blood (Jun 19, 2011)
- Episode 1x09: Baelor (Jun 12, 2011)
- Episode 1x08: The Pointy End (Jun 5, 2011)
- Episode 1x07: You Win or You Die (May 29, 2011)
- Episode 1x06: A Golden Crown (May 22, 2011)
- Episode 1x05: The Wolf and the Lion (May 15, 2011)
- Episode 1x04: Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things (May 8, 2011)
- Episode 1x03: Lord Snow (May 1, 2011)
- Episode 1x02: The Kingsroad (Apr 24, 2011)
- Episode 1x01: Winter is Coming (Apr 17, 2011)
Conan (2010)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 2013-06-04: The Exotic Marigold Hotel 2: Dench Does Dallas (Jun 4, 2013)
The Super Hero Squad Show (2009)
Guest starring as Mystique
- Episode 1x12: Deadly is the Black Widow's Bite! (Oct 31, 2009)
RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)
Guest starring as Judge
- Episode 6x03: Scream Queens (Mar 10, 2014)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 8x10: Grand Finale (May 16, 2016)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
Starring as Sarah Connor
(31 episodes)
- Episode 2x22: Born to Run (Apr 10, 2009)
- Episode 2x21: Adam Raised a Cain (Apr 3, 2009)
- Episode 2x20: To the Lighthouse (Mar 27, 2009)
- Episode 2x19: Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter (Mar 20, 2009)
- Episode 2x18: Today Is the Day (Mar 13, 2009)
- Episode 2x17: Ourselves Alone (Mar 6, 2009)
- Episode 2x16: Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep (Feb 27, 2009)
- Episode 2x15: Desert Cantos (Feb 20, 2009)
- Episode 2x14: The Good Wound (Feb 13, 2009)
- Episode 2x13: Earthlings Welcome Here (Dec 15, 2008)
- Episode 2x12: Alpine Fields (Dec 8, 2008)
- Episode 2x11: Self Made Man (Dec 1, 2008)
- Episode 2x10: Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point (Nov 24, 2008)
- Episode 2x09: Complications (Nov 17, 2008)
- Episode 2x08: Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today (Nov 10, 2008)
- Episode 2x07: Brothers of Nablus (Nov 3, 2008)
- Episode 2x06: The Tower Is Tall but the Fall Is Short (Oct 20, 2008)
- Episode 2x05: Goodbye to All That (Oct 6, 2008)
- Episode 2x04: Allison from Palmdale (Sep 29, 2008)
- Episode 2x03: The Mousetrap (Sep 22, 2008)
- Episode 2x02: Automatic for the People (Sep 15, 2008)
- Episode 2x01: Samson and Delilah (Sep 8, 2008)
- Episode 1x09: What He Beheld (Mar 3, 2008)
- Episode 1x08: Vick's Chip (Mar 3, 2008)
- Episode 1x07: The Demon Hand (Feb 25, 2008)
- Episode 1x06: Dungeons & Dragons (Feb 18, 2008)
- Episode 1x05: Queen's Gambit (Feb 11, 2008)
- Episode 1x04: Heavy Metal (Feb 4, 2008)
- Episode 1x03: The Turk (Jan 21, 2008)
- Episode 1x02: Gnothi Seauton (Jan 14, 2008)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 13, 2008)
Jimmy Kimmel Live (2003)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2019-01-24: Chris Pine, Lena Headey, Kellen Erskine (Jan 24, 2019)
- Episode 2016-01-25: Chris Pine, Lena Headey, Panic! at the Disco (Jan 25, 2016)
The Emmy Awards (1949)
Guest starring as Lena Headey
- Episode 2019-09-22: The 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2019 (Sep 22, 2019)