Judith Gibbins (Tomb Raider II & III, Reloaded)[1][2]
Jonell Elliott (The Last Revelation, Chronicles, The Angel of Darkness, Reloaded)[1][2]
Keeley Hawes (Legend, Anniversary, Underworld, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Reloaded, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II)[1]
Charlotte Sparey (Legend)[a]
Minnie Driver (Revisioned: Tomb Raider)[1]
Camilla Luddington (Tomb Raider 2013, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider)[3]
Harriet Perring (Rise of the Tomb Rai •
Tomb Raider
Video game franchise
This article is about the video game series. For the act of tomb raiding, see grave robbery.
Video game series
Tomb Raider, known as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British video game developer Core Design. The franchise is currently owned by CDE Entertainment; it was formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, then by Square Enix Europe after Square Enix's acquisition of Eidos in 2009 until Embracer Group purchased the intellectual property alongside Eidos in 2022. The franchise focuses on the fictional British archaeologist Lara Croft, who travels around the world searching for lost artefacts and infiltrating dangerous tombs and ruins. Gameplay generally focuses on exploration, solving puzzles, navigating hostile environments filled with traps, and fighting enemies. Additional media has been developed for the franchise in the form of film adaptations, comics and novels.
Development of the first Tomb Raider began in 1994; it was release
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Official Lara Croft Biography (Core Design)
Background
EDUCATION:
Private Tutoring (3 - 11)
Wimbledon High School for Girls (11 - 16)
Gordonstoun Boarding School (16 - 18)
Swiss Finishing School (18 - 21)
SPORTS:
Not much of a team player. Discovered rock climbing while at Gordonstoun and used to set off into the hills alone during netball practice.
Also took up shooting as an extra-curricular activity but was instantly banned for showing "too keen an interest". However, the strength that climbing gave her fingers was to become useful when she started pulling triggers for real.
FAMILY:
The daughter of Lord Henshingly Croft, Lara was brought up in the secure world of aristocracy - surrounded by tennis, butlers and corgis. But this all started to change when she went to the renowned school of Gordonstoun and found the mountains of Scotland.
Having attended Wimbledon High School for Girls from the age of 11 years, Lara's parents decided that now she was 16, she should broaden her education by studying for her A' levels at one of England's most prominent boardi