Lena
Headey (born 3 October 1973) is an English actress known for playing
Sarah Connor on FOX's
Terminator:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles, as well as appearing in such
films as The Remains of the Day, Possession,
The Brothers Grimm and 300.
Headey was born in Bermuda, where her father, an English police
officer, was sent to train as a policeman. The family returned to
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, when she was eight years old. She got her
first taste of acting as a pupil at Shelley College. She got her big
break at the age of 17 when she was spotted performing in a school
production at the Royal National TheatreJeremy Irons in the 1992 film Waterland
and was picked for a role opposite
300is a
highly successful 2007 historical fantasy film adapted from the graphic
novel
300 by Frank Miller. Although the novel is riddled with cultural and
historical
errors, it loosely depicts the heroic stand by the Spartans at the
Battle of
Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of
Leonidas I,
King of Sparta. The film is directed by Zack Snyder with Frank Miller
attached
as an executive producer and consultant, and was shot mostly with
bluescreen to
mimic the imagery of the original comic book.
