Haley Atwell to Play Lara Croft in New 'Tomb Raider' Series
by EG
Haley Atwell is making the move from Marvel to video game movies. The star of Captain America: The First Avenger is going to voice the lead role in a new Netflix anime version of Tomb Raider. Atwell will take the role of a Lara Croft, the video game hero who has previously been portrayed by Angeline Jolie and Alicia Vikander. Read on for details.
Netflix’s anime series based on the Tomb Raider franchise has found its Lara Croft.
Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger, Agent Carter) will voice the iconic character in the series, which will be set after the events of Square Enix’s Tomb Raider 2013-18 video game reboot. Netflix ordered the project from Legendary Television to series in January.
Tomb Raider will be the second Netflix animated series for Atwell: She was also part of the voice cast for 3Below: Tales of Arcadia at the streamer.
The Tomb Raider series will track Lara Croft’s latest, greatest adventure, 25 years after the character debuted in the first Tomb Raider video game. (Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander have played Lara in live-action adaptations of the game.)
Atwell reprises her Marvel Cinematic Universe character, Peggy Carter, in two episodes of the Disney+ animated series What If …. She stars opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 7; other recent credits include 2017’s Howard’s End miniseries (which aired on Starz in the U.S.) and features Blinded by the Light and Christopher Robin. She is repped by CAA, Management 360, Hamilton Hodell, and Ziffren Brittenham.
Tasha Huo (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Red Sonja) serves as showrunner on the series.
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