Lena Headey
Headey in 2011, photo by Starfrenzy/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Lena Kathren Headey
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Bermuda
Date of Birth: 3 October, 1973
Ethnicity: English, some Irish
Lena Headey is an English actress and film producer. Her roles include the series Band of Gold, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Game of Thrones, Danger Mouse, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Infinity Train, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia, Masters of the Universe, White House Plumbers, Beacon 23, and The Abandons; the films Waterland, The Remains of the Day, Century (1993), The Jungle Book (1994), The Grotesque, Face, Mrs Dalloway (1997), The Man with Rain in His Shoes, Onegin (1999), Gossip, Aberdeen (2000), The Parole Officer, Anazapta, Possession (2002), Ripley’s Game, The Actors (2003), The Brothers Grimm, The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You, 300, and its follow-up, 300: Rise of an Empire; The Contractor, St Trinian’s (2007), The Broken, The Red Baron (2008), Laid to Rest, Tell-Tale, Dredd, The Purge (2013), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, Low Down (2014), Zipper, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Thumper, Fighting with My Family, The Flood (2019), Twist (2021), Gunpowder Milkshake, 9 Bullets, DC League of Super-Pets, Normal, and Ballistic (2025); the made-for-tv movie The Gathering Storm; and the video games Risen, Dishonored, and The Artful Escape. She has directed the music videos for “You Mean the World to Me” and “Miracle.”
She was born in Bermuda, to English parents, Sue and John Headey, a police officer. Her family moved to England during her early childhood, and she was raised in Somerset, and later Shelley, West Yorkshire. Lena is married to American actor, writer, and director Marc Menchaca. She has a son with her former husband, musician Peter Loughran; and a daughter with filmmaker Dan Cadan.
Her surname is pronounced heedy.
Lena’s paternal grandfather was William Henry Headey (the son of Percy Headey and Annie/Arrie Billington). William was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Percy was born in Huddersfield, the son of William Henry Headey and Elizabeth Barclay, who was born in Sligo, Ireland. Annie was born in Huddersfield.
Lena’s paternal grandmother was Eugenia/Ena Patricia Blake (the daughter of John Blake and Mary Hannah Iredale). Eugenia was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. John was born in Ballinasloe, Ireland, the son of John William Blake. Mary was born in Huddersfield, the daughter of Enoch Iredale and Mary Barrowclough.
Lena’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Brown.
Sources: Genealogies of Lena Headey (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
https://gw.geneanet.org
Information about Lena’s paternal great-grandfather, Percy Headey – https://blogs.ancestry.ca
Lena’s geneanet.org page https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=headey&oc=0&p=lena+kathren. Her mother’s maiden surname is brown
If your family stayed in Ireland and mixed with their own kind/race, and didn’t move around which is rare nowadays then to give the “American” answer you’re 100% Irish. Truth be told you’re Swedish , Danish, Norwegian, French, Flemish, maybe some Spanish too. DNA tests show where your ancestors lived, nothing else.
@ Jackson
All ethnicities are mixtures of the DNA from Africa and the mutations which occurred during migrations.
“DNA tests show where your ancestors lived, nothing else.”
DNA tests look at genetic code, and more specifically at SNP gene markers. Genes tell your body how to form, they control morphology, they control physiology, they control the endocrine system, which in turn affects behavioral traits. The DNA tests, can detect genetic markers, and subsequently the genetic predisposition, to a slew of traits.
While the main purpose of home admixture tests, is matching markers to ancestral regional affinity, it’s not the only function they can serve.
23andme offers insights, to the other traits, besides regional ancestry, such as disease carrier status. They used to offer physiological predisposition/likelihood to/of, hair color, eye color, shade of skin pigmentation, earlobe shape, etc., etc, but they ceased those predictions for w/e reason. They still have things like salt/sweet preference, hair thickness, fear of heights, asparagus odor detection, cilantro taste aversion, and a slew of others though.
DNA isn’t the end all, be all, of development, epigenetics and gene expression can affect an organism a great deal, but determining how, or in which ways those play a role, would be a task for a RNA analysis/profiling test.
Either way, DNA tests can tell you more, than just where your ancestors lived.
another Turk!
Hhe definitely must have some turkish ancestry or something middle eastern.
I don’t think so.
What makes you say that? She doesn’t even look remotely like her turkish co-star Sibel Kekilli.
I didn’t mean she’s entirely turkish . But she’s definitely not full european.
What’s non-european about her?
her ass
that is flat. Not African.
There’s no single European that is 100% anything or any country, if there’s such a case it would be really really highly rare at the 0.0001%, most of the world is that way.
Lee, how far back are we talking? DNA testing back 500-1000 years yes there is cases and it happens. My mother is 100% Irish according to ancestry DNA. many other Irish and Irish Americans are 100% and come close as well. If we are talking hundred of thousands years back, of course no one is 100% anything that isn’t news.
Lee, stop spamming every page with this.
I have a big round butt and I m European…