British actress Lena Headey will appear in Kurt Sutter’s western action horror series The Abandons on Netflix. Actress best known for her role as Cersei Lannister on HBO’s dramatic fantasy horror series Game of Thrones, for which she received five Emmy Award nominations and was nominated for a Golden Globe. The Abandons follows a diverse collection of eccentric families as they expand their territory in 1850s Oregon. Corruption and internal strife threaten their security and they are forced to flee.
These abandoned individuals, who lead balanced lives, band together to create a family and fight back. As this family struggles to keep their property, justice will be served beyond the law.
Lena Headey’s career
Lena Kathren Headey, born October 3, 1973 in Hamilton, Bermuda, had her first performing experience while a student at Shelley College. She was 17 years old when she appeared in a school play at the Royal National Theatre. She was cast as a character in the 1992 film Waterland. Headey has demonstrated her versatile acting in a wide variety of roles, from martial arts and action women in The Cave and The Brothers Grimm to a The gay florist in Imagine Me and You.
Her work has taken her around the world, including India for The Jungle Book, Norway for Aberdeen, St. Petersburg, Russia for Onegin, Canada for 300, Bulgaria for The Performer, etc. In 2011, Headey began playing Queen Regent Cersei Lannister in HBO up to the series Game of Thrones, based on the book anthology A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. She joined the group after director Peter Dinklage, an acquaintance and future collaborator of the stars, recommended her a job. Headey has two children from her marriage to Peter Loughran which lasted from 2007 to 2013. Marc Menchaca is her current husband. They began dating in 2020 and married in October 2022. The actor will play Fiona in The Abandons, a powerful, devoted mother but unable to have children of her own, so adopted four orphans. to have a family of their own.
What is the plot of Game of Thrones?
David Benioff and DB Weiss developed HBO’s epic horror television series Game of Thrones. It is based on the epic book anthology A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. Game of Thrones is the title of the first novel in the series. The show premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011 and ended on May 19, 2019, after 73 episodes aired over eight seasons.
According to the official synopsis of the show:
“Trouble is brewing in Westeros.” Control of the Iron Throne offers the promise of great power to the inhabitants of this planet. Winter is approaching in a land where the seasons can last a lifetime… and behind the Great Wall protecting them, a lost evil has returned. HBO offers this dramatic series based on George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novel series.”
It has won the most Primetime Emmy Awards for a Serial Drama, 59, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. House of the Dragon, its predecessor, debuts on HBO in 2022. It takes place 200 years before Game of Thrones.
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