A former Lara Croft actress has been spotted filming for Amazon Prime's new Tomb Raider series starring Sophie Turner.
Keeley Hawes, who voiced Lara Croft over a decade of video games, was snapped in a set photo published online this week by British tabloid The Sun. The image shows Hawes on Amazon's Tomb Raider TV series set, wearing a trenchcoat and flanked by two odd-looking masked figures.
The Sun speculates that Keeley could be playing the mother of Lara Croft — Lady Amelia Croft, Countess of Abbingdon — in what would be a neat passing of the torch moment. In the video games, Lady Amelia is shown disappearing in mysterious circumstances following a plane crash. The plot of Tomb Raider: Underworld later involves a search for her — a game that Hawes voiced Lara in.
Keeley Hawes spotted filming new Tomb Raider series for Prime Video
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A veteran British actress, Hawes has appeared in dozens of UK series including Line of Duty, Bodyguard, Ashes to Ashes, and It's a Sin. In the world of video games, Hawes leant her voice to Lara Croft beginning with 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend. Other titles to include her vocal performance notably include 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 first look at former Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft earlier this month, via a photo that revealed the actress wearing Croft's iconic green tank top and red shades. Other cast members include 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 previously made no mention of Hawes' involvement, likely to keep the surprise under wraps.
Weaver plays Evelyn Wallis, a new character not featured in the original games who is described by Amazon as a "mysterious, high-flying woman who is keen to exploit Lara's talents." Other actors play more familiar roles, with Isaacs portraying Croft’s uncle, Atlas DeMornay, Paterson her butler Winston, and Bobb-Semple her tech support Zip.
Amazon previously pitched the series as part of an interconnected "unified storytelling universe" that spans the franchise's video games as well as this new TV series, which is created and written by Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The games themselves are getting something of a reboot, with the first in the franchise reimagined later this year for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S as Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. A brand new game is also on the way in the shape of Tomb Raider: Catalyst, due at some point in 2027. Alix Wilton Regan has now been cast to voice Lara Croft going forward, following Camilla Luddington's turn during the Survivor Trilogy — and Keeley Hawes before that.
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