Sexy Brit Rhona Mitra was hot enough to be the original model for Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft well before Angelina Jolie. The starlet with the distinctive sultry voice has proven herself on TV in The Practice, Boston Legal and Nip/Tuck and has crafted a successful movie career. After years of small parts in movies, Rhona Mitra has recently had leading roles in two sci-fi action movies: Doomsday and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans – which just came out this weekend.

Birthday: August 9, 1976 – Paddington, London, England

Family:  Antony Mitra (Bengali Indian) and Nora (Irish) – divorced in 1984.

Career Highlights:

• Screen Actors Guild: Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Boston Legal.
• Original actress hired as model for Lara Croft of Tomb Raider video game series.

Selected Filmograhy:

• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
• Doomsday (2008)
• Shooter (2007)
• Skinwalkers (2007)
• The Number 23 (2007)
• Highwaymen (2004)
• Passion of the Priest (2004)
• Spartacus (2004)
• Stuck on You (2003)
• The Life of David Gale (2003)
• Ali G Indahouse (2002)
• Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
• Croupier (2000)
• Get Carter (2000)
• Hollow Man (2000)
• Beowulf (1999)
• A Kid in Aladdin’s Palace (1998)
• Monk Dawson (1997)