Sophie Turner’s Tomb Raider Collection Secretly Casts Former Lara Croft Actor

A Tomb Raider set picture reveals {that a} former Lara Croft actor has been secretly solid within the upcoming Prime Video sequence starring Sophie Turner.

On January 15, Prime Video launched a first-look picture of Turner as Lara Croft, the archaeologist and adventurer from the long-lasting Tomb Raider online game franchise. This was used to announce that manufacturing was formally underway for the brand new sequence. Along with Turner, Tomb Raider‘s solid consists of Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Martin Bobb-Semple, Jack Bannon, John Heffernan, Invoice Paterson, Paterson Joseph, Sasha Luss, Juliette Motamed, Celia Imrie, and August Wittgenstein. Phoebe Waller-Bridge created the sequence and is the co-showrunner alongside Chad Hodge, whereas Jonathan Van Tulleken serves because the director.

Now, a picture from The Solar exhibits Keeley Hawes on the set as manufacturing continues. She beforehand voiced Lara Croft within the video video games Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Mild, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, and Netflix’s cell sport Tomb Raider Reloaded.

Click on right here to see the picture of Keeley Hawes on the Tomb Raider set.

Hawes has not been formally confirmed to be within the Prime Video sequence but, however an observer shared with The Solar that “Together with her raincoat and M&S procuring bag, she seems to be taking part in a extra motherly character within the sequence. Some have been speculating that Keeley may very well be the mom of Lara Croft — Woman Amelia Croft, the Countess of Abbingdon. She definitely has a historical past of taking part in upper-class girls in dramas together with Summer season Of Rockets and Upstairs Downstairs.”

Together with voicing Lara Croft in quite a few Tomb Raider video games, Hawes has starred in Physician Who, Orphan Black: Echoes, a tv adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Good friend, the critically acclaimed police procedural Line of Responsibility, and a miniseries adaptation of the J.Okay. Rowling novel The Informal Emptiness. She has additionally been an government producer for The Durrells, Honour, Discovering Alice, Crossfire, Miss Austen, and The Murderer.

There may be not a confirmed launch but for Tomb Raider, however with filming having began in January, it possible won’t premiere on Prime Video till 2027. Because the wait continues, followers can proceed to invest if Hawes is taking part in Woman Amelia Croft or a special character totally, at the least till her casting is formally introduced. Whereas the sequence is supposed to be a brand new tackle the franchise, that includes an actor who has performed Lara Croft a number of occasions earlier than is a manner to hook up with the prevailing tales.