• Moved to Huddersfield, Yorkshire at age 5 where she lived until age 17.

• Her father, a police officer, was sent to train in Bermuda shortly before Headey was born.

• Was ranked #64 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

• The first film she ever saw was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) as a child.

• Used to be a vegetarian for many years.

• Used to have two hamsters and some gold fish. She 'accidentally' boiled one of the fish as a child because she wanted to give them a big jacuzzi.

• Has been doing yoga since she worked in India, shooting The Jungle Book (1994).

• Boxing is one of her hobbies.

• Met and started dating actor Jason Flemyng on the set of The Jungle Book (1994). They split after being together nine years and they're still good friends.

• Had a tattoo on her right arm saying 'Jason' in Thai but tattooed over it when they split up.

• Was engaged to Johnny Cicco.

• Met her husband Peter Paul Loughran, when she attended a friend's wedding. He's born in Northern Ireland and the two tied the knot in Belfast on May 19, 2007.

• Has her husbands last name tattooed on her left wrist.

• Lena has a drink named after her at the Allston Yacht Club in LA. The drink is called 'Lena's Holiday'.

• She has never returned to her birthplace Bermuda.

• Is very close friends with actress Piper Perabo, her co-star in The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005) and The Sophisticates (2008).

• Wants to direct movies in the future, and has so far directed the short film The Sophisticates (2008).

• Prefers to work in Europe rather then in USA.

• Her favorite dessert is 'Angel Delight'.

• Really didn't enjoy making The Cave (2005) and thinks the movie was emberrasing.

• She's a keen practitioner of boxing and of Yoga, which she first discovered in India when she was filming The Jungle Book (1994)

• Was diagnosed with clinical depression when she was 15 years old and has suffered of it in periods ever since.

• Has explained that she felt her school days were really hard.

• Thinks The Brothers Grimm (2005) was hell to shoot and a horrendous experience, mostly because the director Terry Gilliam wanted another actress for the part and apparently didn't treat Lena well.

• Has a younger brother named Tim who is an air steward.

• Her favorite iPhone game is 'Fruit Ninja' and it's said that she holds a score of 4,552.

• Loves the TV Series Coronation Street (1960–) and one of her friends writes on it.

• Gave birth to her first child, a son named Wylie Elliot Loughran on April 1, 2010.

• Used to play a lot of sports in school.

• Would love to do some theatre work but wishes she could sing so she could be in a musical!

• Said that if she could be more like any of the characters she played it would be Angelica in The Brothers Grimm (2005). Because she's a tomboy just like her and she likes that shes physically free - and she also loves to horse ride!