Rhona Mitra was born on August 9, 1976 in London. When she was nine years old, she met Judi Dench, who was her classmate's mother. The future Oscar winner made such a great impression on her that the girl then decided to become an actress when she grew up.
The world noticed Mitra in 1997 when she took over the role of Lara Croft from the game “Tom Raider” from Nathalie Cook. The model played the role of a heroic archaeologist during events and advertising campaigns promoting subsequent installments of the popular series. She was associated with the character for two years.
The actress described her adventure with “Tomb Raider” in a series of posts on Instagram in 2023. “I was 19, I was lost and I needed a role model… so I found one. Her name was Lara. Everyone scoffed and turned up their nose at the idea of an actress playing a character from a computer game. (…) I was an architect who he breathed life into the pixel girl. (…) We were connected, she was me and I was her,” Mitra recalled.
Although Lara Croft made her recognizable, the ending of the adventure with the archaeologist was not the most successful. As Mitra recalled, at some point “misogyny stepped in and tainted what could and should have been an iconic modern femme fatale.” “(Lara) was Indiana Jones and Nikita. And they ruined it,” she concluded. When requests came to perform in increasingly skimpy outfits, she decided to say thank you for their cooperation.
In the same entry, she revealed that after 25 years she realized that the role model she was looking for was always close and looked at her every time she looked in the mirror. She is proud of the fact that she was true to her own values and never gave up on them.
Thanks to Lara Croft, Mitra was able to start her acting career. She started with small roles. IN “Ghost Man” Paul Verhoeven she played the role of a neighbor who is spied on by the main character. She appeared in the last season of the series “The Five of Us” as the object of affection of one of the main characters. In 2004, she was in the main cast of the new legal production “The Eagles of Boston”, in which she played alongside James Spader and William Shatner. IN “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” she received one of the main roles.
In 2014-2015, she appeared in the series “The Last Ship”, about the crew of an American destroyer with survivors of a mysterious epidemic on board. When Mitra disappeared from production, her career slowed down a bit. However, it was the actress's decision. According to the tabloid “Daily Mail”, in 2017 she moved from Los Angeles to a farm in Uruguay, where she was recovering from an illness and working at her horse farm. However, from time to time she appeared in front of the cameras, including as a guest in the series “Supergirl”.
It seems that 2024 could be her big comeback. As many as four films starring Mitra are waiting for their premiere. Among them is “Red Sonja” by MJ Bassett, a remake of a fantasy film from the 1980s. It was not specified what character Mitra would play. The film has no set release date.