Lena Headey looks back: ‘I told Harvey Weinstein where to go. A decade of possibilities disappeared’

The Game of Thrones actor on her feral youth, not playing the fame game, and being protective of her daughter Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, in 1973 and raised in West Yorkshire and Somerset, Lena Headey is an actor, writer and director. She made her film debut in Waterland in 1992. Her career spans 300, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Game of Thrones, in which she played Cersei Lannister from 2011 to 2019, earning five Emmy nominations. Intimacy, which she writes, directs and stars i...

By Harriet Gibsone