Lena Kathren Headey was born in Hamilton on the island of Bermuda on 3 October 1973, the daughter of English parents Sue and John Headey. Her father, a police officer from Yorkshire, was stationed in Hamilton at the time in the Bermuda Police Service. She has one younger brother named Tim. She is of Irish descent. When she was five, her family returned to England, initially settling in Somerset before moving again to Kirkheaton when she was 11. She took ballet lessons as a child. Headey had her
