KEELEY HAWES NEW
VOICE OF LARA CROFT
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[ February 21st 2006 ]
British actress
Keeley Hawes has replaced Jonell
Elliott as the brand new voice of Lara
Croft. The 29-year-old star of British TV drama
Spooks and Macbeth will voice the role of Eidos'
globe-trotting adventurer in Tomb
Raider Legend, now under the aegis of Crystal
Dynamics.
Original Lara
Croft voice-over artists Shelley Blond and Judith
Gibbins were replaced by Jonell Elliott in 1999
for the release of Tomb
Raider: The Last Revelation. Jonell kept the role
her own until 2002 and the release of The
Angel Of Darkness, the final Tomb Raider adventure
helmed by Core Design.
Tomb
Raider Legend will see esteemed cyber-heroine
Lara Croft pit her wits against an old nemesis
as she traverses the globe in search of an ancient
artifact. The Eidos title will debut across European
territories April 7 and across North America April
11.
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