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Lena Headey - Milestones

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  • 2002: Acted in "Ripley's Game"
  • 2002: Had featured role in "Possession"
  • 2001: Co-starred in the British comedy caper "The Parole Officer", starring Steve Coogan
  • 2000: Acted with Ian Hart and Charlotte Rampling in Hans Petter Moland's "Aberdeen"; screened at the Karlovy Vary and Edinburgh Film Festivals
  • 2000: Cast as a bitchy college student in the dark comedy "Gossip", co-starring Joshua Jackson; first film of a two-picture deal with Warner Bros.
  • 1999: Had pivotal role as Liv Tyler's spirited sister Olga in Martha Fiennes' directorial debut "Onegin", starring Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler
  • 1998: Starred as the bewitching girl two guys want to marry in the time-travel romantic drama "Twice Upon Yesterday/If Only/The Man With Rain in His Shoes"
  • 1998: Played Guinevere in the NBC miniseries "Merlin", Sam Neill starred in the title role
  • 1997: Was underused as Robert Carlyle's idealistic girlfriend in "Face", directed by Antonia Bird
  • 1997: Portrayed Sally Seton, the best friend of the young Clarissa (Natascha McElhone) in "Mrs. Dalloway", adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf
  • 1995: Played an Ecstacy-fueled raver in the BBC-2 cautionary drama "Loved Up", featuring Ian Hart
  • 1995: Cast in the British miniseries "Band of Gold" as a troubled lesbian prostitute; to prepare for the role spent time with a Bradford dominatrix
  • 1994: Portrayed the virginal heroine in Disney's live-action version of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book"; Sam Neill played her father
  • 1994: American TV debut, as the daughter of friend of the hero in "MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday" (ABC)
  • 1993: Cast as the upstairs maid appearing alongside Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in the Merchant Ivory production "The Remains of the Day"
  • 1993: Played a passive teenager engaged to a much older man in the BBC TV-movie "The Summer House/Clothes in the Wardrobe", directed by Waris Hussein
  • 1992: Feature debut, "Waterland", playing the sexually precocious schoolgirl who fell for the boy who later became Jeremy Irons
  • Performed alongside six school friends in a one-off show at the National Theatre, attracting the attention of a casting agent
  • Raised in Bermuda and then the south of England before settling in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, when she was 11