Who is the actress who plays the lead in the film based on the computer game Tomb Raider
"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action-adventure film based on the ""Tomb Raider"" video game series. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular Lara Croft character with supporting performances from Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Til Schweiger, Djimon Hounsou and Simon Yam. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the film was directed by Jan de Bont and is a sequel to the 2001 film """". ""The Cradle of Life"" received mostly negative reviews, though critics noted"
"Tomb Raider (film) Tomb Raider is a 2018 action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug, with a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet. An American and British co-production, it is based on the 2013 video game of the same name, with some elements of its sequel by Crystal Dynamics, and is a reboot of the ""Tomb Raider"" film series. The film stars Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, who embarks on a perilous journey to her father's last-known destination, hoping to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu,"
"for Xbox One and Xbox 360, and 28 January 2016 for Microsoft Windows. The PlayStation 4 version was released on 11 October 2016, titled the 20 Year Celebration, as it was released 20 years after the original ""Tomb Raider"" game. This version includes all of the previously released DLC. The 2018 ""Tomb Raider"" reboot film adaptation, directed by Roar Uthaug, is in part based on the video game. Alicia Vikander, who portrays Lara Croft, was cast alongside actors Daniel Wu and Walton Goggins. Graham King, producer of the film, stated that the plot would focus on Lara Croft's search for"
"and a Critics' Choice Movie Award. In 2016, Vikander was listed by ""Forbes"" in its 30 Under 30 list. She has since held a supporting role in the action film ""Jason Bourne"" (2016) and starred as Lara Croft in the adventure film ""Tomb Raider"" (2018). Vikander was born in Gothenburg, the daughter of Maria Fahl Vikander, a stage actress, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Her parents are from small villages in the north and south of Sweden, respectively. They separated when Vikander was two months old, and she was mostly raised by her single mother. She has five half-siblings on"
"Camilla Luddington Camilla Luddington (born 15 December 1983) is an English actress, known for her roles as Kate Middleton in the Lifetime TV film """" (2011) and as Jo Karev (Wilson) in the ABC medical drama ""Grey's Anatomy"". She provided the voice and motion capture work for the main character Lara Croft in three video games in the ""Tomb Raider"" series, the 2013 reboot and its sequels ""Rise of the Tomb Raider"" (2015) and ""Shadow of the Tomb Raider"" (2018). Luddington was born in Ascot, Berkshire, on 15 December 1983. She later attended the American School in England at Thorpe,"
"and Kristin Scott Thomas appear in supporting roles. Principal photography took place from January to June 2017 at the Warner Bros. Studios in the United Kingdom, and in Cape Town, South Africa. The first ""Tomb Raider"" film not to be distributed by Paramount Pictures, it was released in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2018, and in the United States on March 16, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures, in RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, IMAX and 4DX. The film grossed $273 million worldwide, just below the $274 million made by Angelina Jolie's but more than its . The film received mixed"
"Geneva Robertson-Dworet Geneva Robertson-Dworet is an American screenwriter. Robertson-Dworet rose to prominence after being hired in 2015 to rewrite the script for ""Tomb Raider"" (2018), starring Alicia Vikander and directed by Roar Uthaug. In August 2017, she was set to write the screenplay for Marvel Studios female-led superhero film ""Captain Marvel"". She will write the screenplay for David Ayer's ""Gotham City Sirens"" film, as part of the DC Extended Universe, She is also writing the upcoming third ""Sherlock Holmes"", the newest adaptation of the role playing game ""Dungeons & Dragons"", and the screenplay for ""Artemis"". Originally slated to co-write Sony’s"
"the adaptation of the novel ""The Light Between Oceans"" (2016), directed by Derek Cianfrance, with Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz. The film was released in the United States by Touchstone Pictures on 2 September 2016. Vikander portrayed Lara Croft in the action reboot film ""Tomb Raider"", which was released on 16 March 2018. Vikander previously lived in North London. In late 2014, she began a relationship with actor Michael Fassbender, in which they made their first public appearance together at the 2016 Golden Globes, where Vikander was nominated twice—for her roles in ""The Danish Girl"" (2015) and ""Ex Machina"" (2015)."
"Lara Croft Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise ""Tomb Raider"". She is presented as a highly intelligent, athletic, and beautiful English archaeologist who ventures into ancient tombs and hazardous ruins around the world. Created by a team at British developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the character first appeared in the video game ""Tomb Raider"" in 1996. Core Design handled initial development of the character and the series. Inspired by Neneh Cherry and comic book character Tank Girl, Gard designed Lara Croft to counter stereotypical female characters. The company modified"
"Ashley A. Woods Ashley A. Woods (b October 15, 1985) is a comic book artist from Chicago, Illinois, known for her work on the ""Tomb Raider"", ""Niobe"", and ""Ladycastle"" series. Woods was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and developed an interest in anime, movies, comics and video games at a young age. Her favorite character was Sailor Moon, along with video games like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Pandemonium!, Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man. She decided to pursue an art education when she was 15 and attended the International Academy of Design and Technology, receiving her"
"the character was a ""breath of fresh air"". However, Roby felt that though Lara Croft's proportions have become more realistic, the character's personality was diluted by the developer's actions to appeal to a male audience. LesbianGamers.com's Tracy Whitelaw called the character a dichotomy, stating that though Croft is viewed as ""idealized"" with an ""unattainable body"", the character was a great stride for the propagation of female characters as video game protagonists. Lara Croft Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise ""Tomb Raider"". She is presented as a highly intelligent, athletic, and beautiful"
"Rhianna Pratchett Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is an English video game writer, and journalist. She has worked on ""Tomb Raider"" (2013) and its follow up, ""Rise of the Tomb Raider"" (2015), ""Heavenly Sword"" (2007), ""Overlord"" (2007), and ""Mirror's Edge"" (2008), among others. Pratchett is the daughter of the fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. In 2012, Pratchett became one of the four founders of Narrativia Limited, the production company which holds exclusive multimedia and merchandising rights to her late father's works. Rhianna Pratchett studied journalism at the London College of Printing and following graduation began writing for ""Minx"" magazine, where"
"considerable freedom to re-interpret the character; they did not consult the video game designers, but were given a guide listing acceptable and unacceptable practices. Development for a third movie was announced in 2009. Producer Graham King planned to release the film in 2013. This eventual reboot of the film franchise, titled ""Tomb Raider"", was released on 16 March 2018. Core Design, a subsidiary of Eidos, created Lara Croft as the lead protagonist of its video game ""Tomb Raider"", which began development in 1993. Lead graphic artist Toby Gard went through about five designs before arriving at the character's final appearance."
"Evan Rachel Wood Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American actress, model, and musician. She began acting in the 1990s, appearing in several television series, including ""American Gothic"" (1995–96) and ""Once and Again"" (1999–2002). Wood made her debut as a leading film actress at the age of eleven in ""Digging to China"" (1998) and garnered acclaim for her Golden Globe-nominated role as the troubled teenager Tracy Freeland in the teen drama film ""Thirteen"" (2003). Wood continued acting mostly in independent films, including ""Pretty Persuasion"" (2005), ""Down in the Valley"" (2005), ""Running with Scissors"" (2006), and in the"
"alongside Til Schweiger in the romantic comedy ""Keinohrhasen"". For this role, she won a Bambi in the national film category in 2008. In 2012, she voiced the main role of in the German dub of ""Brave"". From 2013, Tschirner and Christian Ulmen will play a team of investigators in the Weimar-based episodes of the ""Tatort"" series. In the German version of the 2013 reboot of the video game ""Tomb Raider"", she voices the main character Lara Croft. She participated on the songs ""Das ewige Date"" and ""Küss mich schnell bevor Du platzt"" on the album ""Brichst du mir das Herz,"
"Karima Adebibe Karima Adebibe (also known as Karima McAdams) (born 14 February 1985) is a Moroccan-English actress and fashion model. Adebibe was born in Bethnal Green, in Tower Hamlets, London, England but grew up in Tangier before moving back to the UK. Adebibe is of Irish, Greek Cypriot and Moroccan origins. Formerly a secretary, she was selected on 14 February 2006 (both her birthday and that of Lara Croft) to be the seventh model for Lara Croft in the popular video game series ""Tomb Raider"". The role involved promoting the game series ""in-character"" on television and radio, so Adebibe underwent"
"Irish. She has a brother, Jason, who is two years older, and a younger brother, Guyan, who is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and ""The Sunday Times"". Mitra appeared as the live action model for Lara Croft, the lead character in Eidos Interactive's ""Tomb Raider"" video game series before Angelina Jolie took the role for the two ""Tomb Raider"" films (2001–2003). Mitra was ranked No. 46 on the ""Maxim"" Hot 100 Women of 2001. She played the romantic interest of Christopher Lambert in ""Beowulf"". Her first main role came as Scott Wolf's illicit love interest on ""Party of Five""."
"Actress. A role opposite Nicolas Cage in the heist film ""Gone in 60 Seconds"" (2000) proved to be her highest-grossing to that point. Jolie achieved worldwide recognition as the eponymous archaeologist in """" (2001), an action film based on the ""Tomb Raider"" video game series. Despite negative reviews, the film had the biggest opening weekend for a film featuring an action heroine. This was followed by roles in two box-office failures—the 2001 erotic thriller ""Original Sin"" and the 2002 romantic comedy ""Life or Something Like It"". Jolie reprised the role of Lara Croft in the sequel """" (2003). In 2004,"
"in returning as Lara Croft for a second film, stating that ""If there's an audience out there for it, then I would love to"". In 2015, Adrian Askarieh, producer of the ""Hitman"" films, stated that he hoped to oversee a shared universe of Square Enix films with ""Just Cause"", ""Hitman"", ""Tomb Raider"", ""Deus Ex"", and ""Thief"", but admitted that he does not have the rights to ""Tomb Raider"". Tomb Raider (film) Tomb Raider is a 2018 action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug, with a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet. An"
"July 2010. Yahoo! Movies and IGN credit Jolie's role in the first ""Tomb Raider"" film with significantly raising her profile and propelling her to international super-stardom, respectively. Jolie commented that young children would ask her to sign objects as Lara Croft. After filming for the first movie at the Cambodian temple Ta Prohm, the local inhabitants called it the ""Angelina Jolie Temple"" and local restaurants served Jolie's favourite alcoholic beverage advertised as ""Tomb Raider cocktails"". IGN's Jesse Schedeen described Croft as one of few characters to receive a decent videogame-to-movie adaptation. By 2008, the first ""Tomb Raider"" movie was the"
"the Tomb Raider"" more difficult to write than the 2013 reboot, figuring out Lara's initial mental state and character introduction. Its cast was significantly smaller than the reboot, so more screen time could be given to each character. To help establish the game's tone and visuals, Crystal Dynamics developed a ""rippomatic"" (a collection of movie scenes). Films included """", which inspired the team about the game's stealth mechanic; """", whose protagonist (Sarah Connor) and Lara Croft are ""burdened with a truth that no one believes"". ""The Edge"" and ""The Grey"" inspired game scenes in which Lara fought bears and wolves."
"further $65 million. Showtime paid $6.8 million for premium cable television rights. In total, $94 million was put together. The deal between Eidos, ""Tomb Raider""s publisher, and Paramount Pictures was structured so Eidos received royalties. The announcement of the film generated significant discussion about who would be cast to play Lara Croft. Numerous actresses (and non-actresses) were rumoured to be on the shortlist to play her and countless others declared their interest in the role, most notably Jennifer Love Hewitt, Famke Janssen, Jennifer Lopez, Rhona Mitra, Elizabeth Hurley, Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diane Lane, Demi Moore and Denise"
"Fa shower gel, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana and L'Oréal in Europe and the United States. De Jong lives and works in Los Angeles United States and is currently developing her career as an actress. Jill de Jong Jill de Jong, also known as Jildou de Jong (born February 17, 1982) is a Dutch model and actress. Born in Hoogeveen, Drenthe. On March 21, 2002 she was selected by Eidos Interactive as the Lara Croft character model for the Tomb Raider video game series. She began her career as a model at the age of fifteen after winning a modeling"
"the summer of 2015. Braddy and Stroma became engaged in May 2016, and married on December 30, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia. Johanna Braddy Johanna Elizabeth Braddy (born August 30, 1987) is an American actress. She played the leading role in the 2009 horror film ""The Grudge 3"", and has appeared in ""Hurt"" (2009), ""Easy A"" (2010), ""Paranormal Activity 3"" (2011), and ""The Levenger Tapes"" (2011). She also starred in a main role as Jenny Matrix in the hit web series ""Video Game High School"" from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, Braddy co-starred as Anna Martin in the Lifetime dark comedy-drama"
"highest-grossing video game movie and the largest opening ever for a movie headlined by a woman. It became the second highest-grossing video game movie in 2010, after the release of """". Lara Croft's introduction was widely regarded as an innovation in the video game market, with Rob Smith of """" describing her as a video game icon of that generation of games. IGN credited a rise in PlayStation sales in part to Croft's debut on the system, and ""PlayStation Magazine"" attributed the first title's success to the character. ""Official US PlayStation Magazine"" stated alternatively that ""Tomb Raider""s PlayStation success propelled"
"Rooney Mara Patricia Rooney Mara ( ; born April 17, 1985) is an American actress. She began her career playing supporting roles in several independent films, including the coming-of-age drama film ""Tanner Hall"" (2009), before starring as Nancy Holbrook in the 2010 remake of ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" and as Erica Albright in the biographical drama film ""The Social Network"" (2010). In 2011, Mara had a career breakthrough when she portrayed Lisbeth Salander, the title character in David Fincher's ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", based on Stieg Larsson's ""Millennium"" book series. She received critical acclaim for her performance"
"her father. The film was released on 16 March 2018. Tomb Raider (2013 video game) Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. ""Tomb Raider"" is the tenth title in the ""Tomb Raider"" franchise, and operates as a reboot that reconstructs the origins of Lara Croft. ""Tomb Raider"" was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 23 January 2014 for OS X, on 27 April 2016 for Linux, and on 7 March 2017 for Shield TV. Crystal Dynamics began development of ""Tomb Raider"" soon after"
"the mechanic ex-girlfriend of a car thief played by Nicolas Cage; ""The Washington Post"" writer Stephen Hunter criticized that ""all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."" Jolie later explained that the film had been a welcome relief after her emotionally demanding role in ""Girl, Interrupted"". Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie had rarely found films that appealed to a wide audience, but ""Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"" (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular ""Tomb Raider"" videogames, the film"
"young Croft in an origin story. In 2011, Olivia Wilde denied rumours that she would play the role, but still expressed interest. The film, originally meant for a 2013 release, is to be produced by Graham King, written by Marti Noxon and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in partnership with King's studio GK Films. On 28 April 2016, it was announced that Alicia Vikander would be playing Lara in the next film adaptation. ""Tomb Raider"", directed by Roar Uthaug, was released in 2018 and takes inspiration mostly from the rebooted series that started in 2013. Lara Croft's 1996 debut is often cited"
"Emily Carey Emily Carey (born 30 April 2003) is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her role of Grace Beauchamp in BBC One's ""Casualty"", which she played from 2014 to 2017. Carey also played the young Diana Prince (Wonder Woman), portrayed by Gal Gadot as an adult, in the Warner Brothers movie ""Wonder Woman"" (2017). She appeared as a young Lara Croft in the ""Tomb Raider"" reboot film, released in March 2018. Other notable work includes Mary Conan Doyle in the series ""Houdini and Doyle"" on FOX/ITV, and West End Theatre roles in ""Shrek The Musical"" at"
"(in gameplay versus the computer). In 1983, professor Sara Kiesler et al. published a study in ""Psychology Today"" (Vol.17, No.3. Pp. 40–48.) finding that female characters appeared in video games at a frequency of 1 game in 7. Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz suggested that the reduced presence of female characters implies a secondary status for women in video games. When playable female characters do appear in video games, they are more often scantily dressed and oversexualized than men. Lara Croft, the protagonist of ""Tomb Raider"" (1996), is among the best-known strong, fictional women in a variety of media. Since her introduction in"
"Rivers, Kelly Osbourne, George Kotsiopoulos, and Kris Jenner. In June 2012, Crystal Dynamics confirmed Luddington would voice Lara Croft in the video game ""Tomb Raider"". Luddington originally went into the audition for Lara thinking she was auditioning for a project called ""Krypted"" with a character called Sara. In June 2014, it was revealed that a sequel was in production, titled ""Rise of the Tomb Raider"", and Luddington confirmed on her Twitter account that she would be returning to voice and motion capture Lara in the new game. Luddington also returned to reprise her role for ""Shadow of the Tomb Raider"","
"""Silver & Black—""a team-up movie about the Spider-Man characters Black Cat and Silver Sable—with Lindsey Beer, the film has been removed from Sony's production schedule and the project's future is unclear. Robertson-Dworet is a 2007 graduate of Harvard College. She wrote for ""The Harvard Lampoon"" during her time there. She is married to writer Hayes Davenport. Geneva Robertson-Dworet Geneva Robertson-Dworet is an American screenwriter. Robertson-Dworet rose to prominence after being hired in 2015 to rewrite the script for ""Tomb Raider"" (2018), starring Alicia Vikander and directed by Roar Uthaug. In August 2017, she was set to write the screenplay for"