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Lara Croft
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Key facts
- First game
- Tomb Raider (1996)
- Created by
- Toby Gard
- Motion capture
- Various Heidi Moneymaker ( Underworld ) Camilla Luddington ( Tomb Raider 2013, Rise of the Tomb Raider , Shadow of the Tomb Raider )
- Portrayed by
- Angelina Jolie ( Lara Croft: Tomb Raider , The Cradle of Life ) Alicia Vikander (2018 film) Sophie Turner (TV series) Other: Rachel Appleton ( Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ; young) Emily Carey (2018 film; young) Maisy De Freitas (2018 film; young)
- Origin
- London, England
- Nationality
- English
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Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Lara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wimbledon
- Occupation
- explorer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Hair colour
- brown hair
- Creator
- Toby Gard
- Performer
- Hayley Atwell
- Image
- Alison Carroll 20080926 Festival du jeu video 01.jpg
- Height
- 1.75
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- present in work
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life
- date of birth
- 1968-02-14
- Commons category
- Lara Croft
- subject has role
- player character
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Film
- name in native language
- Lara Croft
- first appearance
- Tomb Raider
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Encyclopedic overview
Lara Croft is a character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider. She is presented as a highly intelligent and athletic English adventurer and archaeologist who ventures into ancient tombs and hazardous ruins around the world. Created by a team at British developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the character first appeared in the video game Tomb Raider in 1996.
Core Design handled the initial development of the character and the series. Inspired by strong female icons, Gard designed Lara Croft to counter stereotypical female characters. The company modified the character for subsequent titles, which included graphical improvements and gameplay additions. American developer Crystal Dynamics took over the series after the 2003 sequel Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness was received poorly. The new developer rebooted the character along with the video game series by altering her physical proportions and giving her additional ways of interacting with game environments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lara Croft” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.