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. … continue reading