The character makes a minor appearance in the 1998 comic series 300 by Frank Miller, who was heavily inspired by the aforementioned film.[12] In the 2006 motion picture adaptation of the comic, 300, English actress Lena Headey plays Gorgo. In this version, she is given a more important role in the events surrounding the war with Persia; she tries to convince others to bring support to Leonidas, is raped by another council member to save her husband, and then kills that member and reveals him as a traitor.[13] Headey reprised her role in the 2014 sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire.[14]