Lena Headey

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lena Headey (2014)

Lena Headey (born October 3, 1973 in Hamilton , Bermuda ) is a British actress who gained international fame with films such as Brothers Grimm and 300 as well as with her roles in the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Game of Thrones .

Life

Childhood and youth

Headey's parents, John and Susan, lived in Bermuda from 1971 to 1976, where the father worked as a police officer and Lena Headey was born in 1973. In 1976 the family moved to Huddersfield in Northern England for twelve months , where both parents were from. They moved to Somerset when Lena Headey was four but returned to Huddersfield in 1982. There Headey grew up with her younger brother Tim in simple circumstances and attended Shelley High School. At her mother's request, Headey took speaking lessons to be able to express herself "like a lady," which, however, temporarily made her an outsider in a working class environment. “Since I was little, I've had a strong sense of independence and an urge to survive. As a child, emotionally speaking, I was on my own two feet, ”said Headey in 2007. After being spotted for the film at a theater performance at her school at London's Royal National Theater , Headey, who originally wanted to be a hairdresser, broke at the age of 17 Years from her schooling in Huddersfield to devote herself to acting.

Film and television career

In 1992 Headey played her first film role in Stephen Gyllenhaal's literary film adaptation of Waterland , which is based on a novel by Graham Swift . Headey was featured in flashbacks as Jeremy Irons ' future wife. After first appearances in British television productions, an appearance as a housemaid at the side of Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in the award-winning film What Was Left of the Day followed . In The Jungle Book , Disney's real- life version based on Rudyard Kipling's novel, she played the leading female role a year later. In 1995 she played a drug addict raver in the TV movie E for Ecstasy . Two years later she starred in the Virginia Woolf film adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway , in which Vanessa Redgrave played the title role. She then stood as Queen Guinevere for the two-part TV series Merlin, alongside Sam Neill , with whom she had already shot The Jungle Book . In 1998, she was next to Penelope Cruz , the lead actress of Dear Rain in His ... directed by María Ripoll. In 1999 she appeared in the Pushkin film Onegin - A love in St. Petersburg at the side of Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler in a supporting role.

Lena Headey at the London premiere of 300 in March 2007

The college drama Fatal Rumors, starring James Marsden and Kate Hudson, followed in 2000 . In the same year, Hans Petter Moland gave her the lead role in his film Aberdeen , in which she is supposed to take her alcoholic father, played by Stellan Skarsgård , from Norway to her dying mother ( Charlotte Rampling ) in Scotland in the role of a London lawyer . For her performance in Aberdeen Headey received the Silver Iris at the Brussels European Film Festival as well as a nomination for the Chlotrudis Award . This was followed by roles in the crime comedy The B-Team: Restricted and on Probation (2001), in the drama Anazapta , which takes place during the 14th century plague epidemic, and in Obsessed , a literary film adaptation with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Ehle . In 2005 Headey appeared in the fantasy film Brothers Grimm alongside Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as a fearless trapper. Also in 2005 she stood in front of the camera as a scientist in the horror film The Cave and as a lesbian florist in the romantic comedy A Threesome Wedding next to Piper Perabo . Headey's international breakthrough came in 2007 as Queen Sparta in the comic film version 300 , which earned her nominations for the MTV Movie Award and the Saturn Award . As a Belgian nurse, she appeared in the cinemas a year later in the biopic Der Rote Baron alongside the German actors Matthias Schweighöfer and Til Schweiger .

From January 2008 to May 2009 she played the lead role as Sarah Connor in the science fiction series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , which is based on James Cameron's Terminator films. From 2011 to 2019 she was in the very successful and award-winning fantasy series Game of Thrones , based on the novel series by George RR Martin , in the role of the devious Queen Cersei . Headey received further nominations for the Saturn Award for both television series. The role of Cersei also earned her four Emmy nominations. In 2012, she portrayed a brutal drug baroness disfigured with a scar in the comic film adaptation of Dredd . After appearances in The Purge (2013) and Chronicles of the Underworld - City of Bones (2013), she appeared again as Queen Sparta in 300: Rise of an Empire in 2014 . 2016 followed the role of the battle-hardened and equipped with an eye patch Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the Jane Austen parody Pride and Prejudice and Zombies .

Headey is also sometimes active as a voice actor, for example in the Japanese computer animation film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016), in the cartoon series Danger Mouse (2015-2017), in the animation series Trolljäger (2017-2018) and in the fantasy series Der Dark Crystal: Era of Resistance (2019).

In 2018, Headey was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars annually.

Private life

Headey was in a relationship with fellow actor Jason Flemyng , whom she met while filming The Jungle Book , for nine years . On May 19, 2007 Headey married the Irish musician Peter Paul Loughran, with whom they have had a son since 2010. The couple separated in late 2011, and Headey filed for divorce in 2012. On July 10, 2015, she became the mother of her second child, a daughter.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Brussels European Film Festival

  • 2001: Silver Iris in the Best Actress category for Aberdeen

Chlotrudis Award

Emmy Award

  • 2014 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones
  • 2015 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones
  • 2016 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones
  • 2018 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones

Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo

  • 2012: Nomination for the Golden Nymph in the category Best Actress in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones

Golden Globe Award

MTV Movie Awards

  • 2007: Nomination in the category Best Newcomer for 300

Saturn Award

  • 2008: Nomination in the category Best Supporting Actress for 300
  • 2008: Nomination for Best TV Actress for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  • 2009: Nomination for Best TV Actress for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  • 2012: Nomination for Best TV Actress for Game of Thrones

Screen Actors Guild Award

  • 2012 : Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble in a TV Series - Drama for Game of Thrones
  • 2014 : Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble in a TV Series - Drama for Game of Thrones
  • 2015 : Nomination in the category Best Acting Company in a TV Series - Drama for Game of Thrones
  • 2016 : Nomination in the category Best Acting Company in a TV Series - Drama for Game of Thrones
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble in a TV Series - Drama for Game of Thrones
  • 2018 : Nomination in the category Best Acting Ensemble in a TV Series - Drama for Game of Thrones

Teen Choice Award

  • 2007: Nomination in the category Choice Movie Actress - Action Adventure for 300

Web links

Commons : Lena Headey  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'But you don't appear to have a Minister for Beer' . In: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner , Aug. 4, 2005.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Wolff: She's beautiful when she's angry . In: Best Life , December 2007, pp. 132-137.
  3. ^ "Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally. " Jennifer Wolff: She's beautiful when she's angry . In: Best Life , December 2007, p. 137.
  4. ↑ Lead villain role for Shelley's Lena Headey in new Judge Dredd movie . In: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner , July 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ Lena Headey goes crazy - in Dredd 3D ( Memento from August 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: volt-magazine.com, April 9, 2013.
  6. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org, accessed June 26, 2018.
  7. ↑ Huddersfield actress Lena Headey on movie stardom, motherhood and making summer blockbuster Dredd - plus read our movie review . In: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner , Sept. 8, 2012.
  8. ^ Lena Headey Files for Divorce . In: People , July 25, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Headey, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Bermuda