In a career spanning little more than 15 years, Lena Headey has appeared in close to 50 films. On-screen, she’s portrayed the tough-as-nails Queen Gorgo (300), the tough-as-nails Sarah Connor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), the tough-as-nails super-sexy cave-diving scientist Kathryn (The Cave), and Luce, the … uh … hot-as-nails florist who wins Piper Perabo‘s heart (Imagine Me and You).
Hell, if you dig deep enough into Headey’s past, you’ll even find that she’s appeared alongside a certain mulleted secret agent: I’m talking about the 1994 made-for-TV film MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday. My current to-do list has increased by one; to wit: 1) get peanut butter, 2) learn to live without sleep so I can play the new Silent Hill game all the time, 3) see MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday ASAP.
Though I’d leap at the chance to watch Headey read the phone book (eh, who am I kidding — I’d leap at the chance to watch Headey simply look at a phone book), as a horror fan I’m psyched because she’s got several genre flicks coming down the pike: The Broken, an Invasion of the Body Snatchers–esque thriller which earned good reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival; and the just-announced Black Death, an apocalyptic medieval gothic horror film about necromancy and … you know, that bubonic plague thing.
In The Broken, Headey is Gina McVey, a woman who becomes a bit disturbed one fine day when she sees herself drive by in her own car. I can understand how this might be unnerving if it happened to you, but to me it means there’s more than one Lena Headey in the world, a prospect I’m pretty sure I could live with.
Black Death, currently in preproduction, finds Headey leading a village and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, making “a pact with the forces of darkness.” Frankly, she can make all the evil deals she wants; I’ll still elect her into office.
