Amazon's Sophie Turner Tomb Raider Series Secretly Stars a Previous Lara Croft

A erstwhile Lara Croft histrion has been spotted filming for Amazon Prime's caller Tomb Raider bid starring Sophie Turner.

Keeley Hawes, who voiced Lara Croft implicit a decennary of video games, was snapped successful a acceptable photograph published online this week by British tabloid The Sun. The representation shows Hawes connected Amazon's Tomb Raider TV bid set, wearing a trenchcoat and flanked by 2 odd-looking masked figures.

The Sun speculates that Keeley could beryllium playing the parent of Lara Croft — Lady Amelia Croft, Countess of Abbingdon — successful what would beryllium a neat passing of the torch moment. In the video games, Lady Amelia is shown disappearing successful mysterious circumstances pursuing a level crash. The crippled of Tomb Raider: Underworld aboriginal involves a hunt for her — a crippled that Hawes voiced Lara in.

A seasoned British actress, Hawes has appeared successful dozens of UK bid including Line of Duty, Bodyguard, Ashes to Ashes, and It's a Sin. In the satellite of video games, Hawes leant her dependable to Lara Croft opening with 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend. Other titles to see her vocal show notably see Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and its sequel Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Tomb Raider: Underworld and 2021's Tomb Raider Reloaded.

Amazon revealed a archetypal look astatine erstwhile Game of Thrones prima Sophie Turner arsenic Lara Croft earlier this month, via a photograph that revealed the histrion wearing Croft's iconic greenish vessel apical and reddish shades. Other formed members see Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Martin Bobb-Semple, Jack Bannon, John Heffernan, Bill Paterson, Paterson Joseph, Sasha Luss, Juliette Motamed, Celia Imrie, and August Wittgenstein. Amazon has antecedently made nary notation of Hawes' involvement, apt to support the astonishment nether wraps.

Weaver plays Evelyn Wallis, a caller quality not featured successful the archetypal games who is described by Amazon arsenic a "mysterious, high-flying pistillate who is keen to exploit Lara's talents." Other actors play much acquainted roles, with Isaacs portraying Croft’s uncle, Atlas DeMornay, Paterson her butler Winston, and Bobb-Semple her tech enactment Zip.

Amazon antecedently pitched the bid arsenic portion of an interconnected "unified storytelling universe" that spans the franchise's video games arsenic good arsenic this caller TV series, which is created and written by Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The games themselves are getting thing of a reboot, with the archetypal successful the franchise reimagined aboriginal this twelvemonth for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S arsenic Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. A marque caller crippled is besides connected the mode successful the signifier of Tomb Raider: Catalyst, owed astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027. Alix Wilton Regan has present been formed to dependable Lara Croft going forward, pursuing Camilla Luddington's crook during the Survivor Trilogy — and Keeley Hawes earlier that.

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