Description: Lena Headey [born: Lena Mary Headey on October 3, 1973 in Hamilton, Bermuda] is an actress who is best known for her appearances in "The secret of the Grimm brothers" (2005), "Possession" (2002) and "What's left of the day" (1993). Headey stars as Queen Gorgo, a heroic Spartan woman in the period film 300 (2006), by director Zack Snyder. Her father was a Yorkshire police cadet, before He was sent to Bermuda shortly before her birth. 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 Lena Headey [born: Lena Mary Headey on October 3, 1973 in Hamilton, Bermuda] is an actress who is best known for her appearances in "The secret of the Grimm brothers" (2005), "Possession" (2002) and "What's left of the day" (1993). Headey stars as Queen Gorgo, a heroic Spartan woman in the period film 300 (2006), by director Zack Snyder.

Her father was a Yorkshire police cadet, before He was sent to Bermuda shortly before her birth. 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 classes in clubs in south London, where a former boxer had been teaching her to spar. 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) 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: The Adventure Continues (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 secret of the Grimm brothers" (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 Der rote 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, Heady appeared as Sarah Connor in a TV spin-off of the popular "Terminator" film franchise, the FOX's television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008).

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.

She married musician Peter Loughran in May 2007.[64] Their son was born in 2010.[65] She has spoken about suffering from postnatal depression following his birth.[66] Headey and Loughran separated in 2011, and she filed for divorce in July 2012, which was finalised in December 2013.[64][67] On 10 July 2015, Headey gave birth to a daughter with filmmaker Dan Cadan, a childhood friend who had worked with her on his short film The Devil's Wedding.[68] They had separated by June 2019.[69] In October 2022, Headey married American actor Marc Menchaca, whom she had been dating since 2020.[70][71]

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