Evolution of Lara Croft

List of models representing Lara Croft. Angelina is not uniform, and not with her story began.

The data itself Lara Croft

Title: The Duchess Abbingdonskaya.

Nationality: English.

Date of birth: 14/02/1968.

Place of birth: London (United Kingdom).

Location: Croft Manor (Buckinghamshire, UK).

Marital status: Single.

Blood: IV-.

Height: 175 cm.

Weight: 52 kg.

Dimensions: 106-60-89 cm.

Breast size: fourth (34D).

Hair color: brunette.

Eyes: brown.

Occupation: archaeologist.

Nathalie Cooks (1996-1997)

Date of Birth: February 14, 1967

Place of Birth: Surrey (England)

Relationship status: Single

Occupation: archaeologist

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 120 lbs (57 kg)

Hair color: brunette

Eye color: brown

The volume of the chest, waist and hips: 34D * / 61 cm / 89 cm

Dress size: 8 *

Shoe size: 7 *

Blood type: AB (IV) Rh negative

Favorite meal: roasted beans or kidney beans

Favorite music: classical, trance, U2 band and Nine Inch Nails

Favorite movies: "Liberation" (Deliverance), "Aguirre" (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)

Favorite video game: Quake

She first appeared before the audience on 8-10 September 1996 at the European Computer Trade Show. At that time, Tomb Raider was in the final stages of development, and no one could have predicted that soon the game will be to storm the top of sales rankings. Therefore, Publisher Eidos Interactive has allocated for promotions very small amount. No casting was conducted. The role went to Natalie Cook accidentally. The fact is that then court her one of the developers. Here are gentleman and invited the girl to pose on the ECTS. The blessing is not required to go to - the exhibition was held in London. After the phenomenal success of the game Natalie interested in the British press. At first, her pictures were published in the December issue of PC Zone magazine, and in 1997, a non-professional model photos in the form of Tomb Raider appeared in the well-known newspaper The Daily Mirror.

Rhona Mitra (1997-1998)

Date of Birth: August 9, 1976

Place of Birth: London, England

Occupation: professional model, actress, singer

Height: 173 cm

Hair color: brown

Eye color: brown

The volume of the chest, waist and hips: 99 cm / 61 cm / 91 cm

Clothing size: 10 (corresponds to the Russian 40 th)

Shoe Size: 6 (corresponding to 38-39 th European)

The image of Lara Croft Tomb Raider game was represented by 2

On his role: "I remember one day received a very touching letter of 12 boys, fans of Tomb Raider, living in Exeter (main city of the English county of Devonshire). They asked me to marry them, and for all time! They even came up with a special program in which going to "share" me with each other on a weekly basis. " In 1997, with lyubitelschina it was over. All of the following episodes of the show at various exhibitions were only professional model. So, at E3 1997 in Atlanta went Rhona Mitra (Rhona Mitra). For the role of Lara Croft 20-year-old Englishwoman took a course of special physical training and increased breast size from 34A (87-90 cm) to 34 DD (99 cm), and the operation of the girl made her own father - a plastic surgeon Anthony Mitra (Antony Mitra). Prior to working with Eidos Interactive Ron has played minor roles in two little-known British TV series. After 1997, the proposals of the directors became much more. In 1998, Mitra starred in the film Scheherazade "First Knight at the court of Aladdin" (A Kid in Aladdin's Palace). For ten years, she has starred in more than ten feature films and half a dozen television series. The most famous of them: "Beowulf" 1999, "Invisible Man," "Get Carter," "Big Ali", "Stuck on You," "The Number 23" and "Judgment Day."

Nell McAndrew (1998-1999)

Date of Birth: November 6, 1973

Place of birth: Leeds, England

Occupation: professional model, TV presenter, fitness instructor

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 63 kg

Hair Color: natural - brown hair, for the moment - blonde

Eye Color: Green

The volume of the chest, waist and hips: 91 cm / 62 cm / 91 cm

Clothing size: 10 (corresponds to the Russian 40 th)

Shoe size: 6

The image of Lara Croft Tomb Raider game represented 3: Adventures of Lara Croft

On his role: "When I picture Miss Croft, I have become stronger and more confident, and judging by the reviews, I was really popular, even adored! Very nice to chat with the fans of Lara - they are really crazy about her. " The news of the dismissal of Mithras was for Tomb Raider fans a big surprise. Rumor has it that the representatives of Eidos Interactive was unhappy that less than a year, Ron made a brilliant career and the beginning of the employers put forward unacceptable conditions. As it was in reality - is unknown. Either way, the role went to models from Manchester Nell McAndrew (Nell McAndrew). Fans of the series took the new Lara Croft in different ways. Some thought that due to high growth, Athletic and pure English accent (mother Rhone Mithras was from India, and his father from Ireland) McAndrew fits perfectly into the image. Other Nell scolded for being too often glimpsed in the nude on the cover of men's magazines, and is no different modesty in everyday life. Say, model Lara Croft to be shy. After the publication of photos in the August issue of Playboy British publisher immediately terminate the contract. Over the past eight years, Nell opened the fitness school, produced several movies with its special wellness programs, some time spent driving game show It's a Knockout and transmission The Big Breakfast, advertised underwear Triumph and products Adidas, as well as part of a group of activists, which would produce London the right to host the summer Olympic games in 2012.

Lara Weller (1999-2000)

Date of Birth: April 6, 1975

Place of birth: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Occupation: Professional model

Height: 173 cm

Hair color: brown

Eye color: brown

The volume of the breast, waist and hips: 93 cm / 61 cm / 84 cm

The image of Lara Croft represented the game Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

On his role: "It took me some time to get used to the role, but the more I think about it, the more I admire. Surprising, because earlier people often told me that I remind them of Lara. " It so happened that the next model is called just like the heroine of the series. Only the name is not Croft and Weller (Weller). Before you become the next Tomb Raider, Lara managed to withdraw in advertising swimwear, underwear and visit the pages of the famous glossy magazines like FHM, Front, Marie Claire, Later, More, Loaded and Maxim. Unlike predecessors, after separation from Eidos Interactive, career Weller not go uphill. She still occasionally flickers in television commercials (commercials from Harrods, Comfort, Fiorelly, Triumph and Fosters) and emblazoned on the huge number of directories with underwear. In recent years, it showed an interest in men's magazines GQ and Men's Health.

Lucy Clarkson (2000-2002)

Date of Birth: June 7, 1983

Place of birth: Rotherham, South Yorkshire County, England

Occupation: professional model, actress

Height: 180 cm

Weight: 64 kg

Hair color: brunette

Eye color: brown

The volume of the chest, waist and hips: 93 cm / 63 cm / 91 cm

The image of Lara Croft represented the game Tomb Raider: Chronicles

On his role: "One day I was invited to South Africa as a model. But when I arrived there, I was told that in order to get this to work, you need to lose a few more kilos. I did not like, and I decided to go home. A few days later they called me and offered to place the new Lara. It is the work that makes you famous and at the same time allows you to (I would even say obligation) have some form. "

Jill De Jong (2002-2004)

Date of Birth: February 2, 1982

Place of birth: Hugevin, Netherlands

Occupation: Professional model

Height: 183 cm

Hair Color: natural blonde

Eye Color: Green

The volume of the chest, waist and hips: 86 cm / 63 cm / 91 cm

The image of Lara Croft represented the game Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

On his role: "Playing Lara, I realized how much I like to play any role. I also learned some martial arts technique, it can be useful to me in future. " Jill De Jong (Jill De Jong) was the second Dutch girl who tried on the costume of Lara Croft. Before you get the role, Jill was already well-known model. In the 15 years after winning a local beauty contest, she went out of the country in Milan, where she was offered a contract adult. But De Jong has decided to hold off and came back home to finish school. After receiving the certificate, she returned to modeling. Some readers may have seen Gil in the advertising line of cosmetic products for hair care by L'Oreal. De Jong is not going to connect the life with the modeling business. In between campaigns girl attends a course at the London European Business School.

Karima Adebibe (2006-present)

Date of Birth: February 14, 1985

Place of Birth: London, England

Occupation: professional model, actress

Height: 173 cm

Hair color: brunette

Eye color: blue-green

The image of Lara Croft represented the game Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Tomb Raider: Underworld.

On his role: "My boyfriend has not yet seen me in the role of Lara. I've never come home after work in her suit, but now that I think about it, most likely, I'll do it. Many suits of Lara, which I put, made of latex, and I have to wear a sufficient number of weapons and grenades. I'm already a leader in our relationship with him, but imagine what would happen to him when he sees me in Lara's suit - he'll probably start crying. " The seventh model - Karim Adebib (Karima Adebibe). Her story is like a fairy tale about Cinderella. More recently, Karim worked as a simple clerk in a clothing store Topshop London and could boast only a cameo role sacrificed virgins in the beginning of the movie "Alien vs. Predator" (AVP: Alien vs. Predator) and shooting in advertising "Coca-Cola". Publisher Eidos Interactive appeared on the horizon, just in time. For a long time from various advertising agencies and companies of casting has not received any offers. Just a little bit, and Adebib be forever left the modeling business.

Alison Carroll (2008)

The most recent face of Lara Croft. In 2011, leaders of the franchise Tomb Raider declared an end to the use of living persons to represent the game the decision they explained the decision to focus the public's attention on the person itself Lara. The list would be incomplete without Angelina Jolie, which, though not formally represented Lara Croft, will remain the best-known way.

Evolution of Lara:

The history of the character. Initially, Toby Gard (creator of Lara Croft) focused on creating a character most suitable for the role of the adventurer and Cryptstalker, so he devised a kind of Indiana Jones clone. However, the main character of this thought intolerable, and Hardy had to create a new one. At the same time, he noticed that his colleagues playing Virtua Fighter, prefer female characters. Then came the idea to create just the heroine. At first it was a Latin American woman named Laura Cruz (Laura Cruz), later it "altered" in the English girl, whose name was taken from the phone book because it sounded "the British way friendly" It turns out that Toby Gard to create an image inspired by Nene Cherry (popular while pop singer)