Model dressed as Lara Croft dual wielding pistols

Dual wielded weapons have become the trademark of some game characters, most notably Lara Croft and Dante.

Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Jolie was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award in 2001 for Worst Actress for her work in Original Sin and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

In 2006, Lara Croft was inducted into the Walk of Game and the Guinness Book of World Records has recognised her as the " Most Successful Human Virtual Game Heroine.

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

The central character in Tomb Raider is the English archaeologist Lara Croft, a female adventurer in search of ancient relics.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

However, in the Lara Croft movie, Lara's father gets killed by the Illuminati ( see Tomb Raider ).

Six different women have served as the official Lara Croft model for publicity purposes, including model Nell McAndrew, actress Rhona Mitra, and, most recently, gymnast Alison Carroll, who held the job until 2010.

American film star Angelina Jolie portrayed Lara Croft in two feature-length Tomb Raider films, which together grossed nearly US $ 500 million worldwide, making her role as Lara the most well known and widely seen of any other.

A map indicating places visited by Lara Croft during the video games:

2010's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light uses recycled musical cues from Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld by composers Troels Brun Folmann and Colin O ' Malley.

Angelina Jolie portrayed Lara Croft in the film series

Lara was created by one-time Core designer Toby Gard, with her character and backstory fleshed out by writer Vicky Arnold.

She was then left to her father, who did not take part in the crash, and he was later killed by Jaqueline Natla, a recurring character in the series, leaving Lara an orphan.

* Lara ( comics ), the biological mother of the comic book character Superman

* Lara Antipova, a major character in novel ( and film ) Doctor Zhivago

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

Phillips has remained busy in both stage and television productions, along with character roles in films like Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ) directed by Steven Spielberg and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( 2001 ).

Born in Hoogeveen, Drenthe, on March 21, 2002 she was selected by Eidos Interactive as the Lara Croft character model for the Tomb Raider video game series.

The character of Sara Pezzini was also featured in crossovers with characters from other franchises, including Lara Croft, Vampirella, the Justice League, the titular creatures from the Alien and Predator film series, the Magdalena and the cast of Battle of the Planets.

Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Square Enix ( previously Eidos Interactive ) video game series Tomb Raider.

Inspired by pop artist Neneh Cherry and comic book character Tank Girl, Gard designed Lara Croft to counter stereotypical female characters.

Critics consider Lara Croft a significant game character in popular culture.

" The book Digital Shock: Confronting the New Reality described her as a virtual actress having a " beauty that is ' really ' impressive ", comparing her to video game character Lara Croft.

* Eidos Interactive selects Dutch model Jill De Jong as the new digitized Lara Croft character

It starred Paul McGann as the title character, and was written and directed by Francisco Lara Polop.

Joanna Dark was criticized by Trigger Happy author Steven Poole, who described her character design as " a blatant and doomed attempt to steal the thunder of Lara Croft ", and argued that she illustrated the challenges of injecting characterisation into the protagonists of first-person shooters.

Smith was also a recurring character in the Showtime drama series The L Word, playing Sous-chef Lara Perkins.

1: The Definitive Edition contains a re-engineered version of this story which removes the characters of Lara and Sara, and re-focuses the story on Aspen's character only.

Beyond the games, he also appeared in Top Cow's promotional comics for Soul Reaver and Defiance, and was included alongside Raziel as a playable character in downloadable content for 2010's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.

Named the pin-up girl of the " cyber generation " by The New York Times, Tifa has been compared to Lara Croft as an example of a strong, independent and attractive female character in video games.

" That same year, The Beaumont Enterprise cited her as an example of a strong female character in video games in the wake of Lara Croft's introduction.

Deol's second film of 2007 was Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, which saw him play the character of Steve / Satvinder Singh opposite Abhishek Bachchan ( who played a gypsy in London ), Preity Zinta, and Lara Dutta.

* Lara Doucette, the main female character on the video podcast Tiki Bar TV

Nearly fifteen years after the release of the original game, Lara is still one of the most famous and recognizable video game characters in the history of the medium.

A 2001 adventure film adapted from the Tomb Raider video game series ; Lara Croft races against time and villains to recover a powerful artefact called the Triangle of Light.

Angelina Jolie returns as Lara Croft in the 2003 sequel to the original video game based film.

In the popular 1999 video game Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, the player ( playing as series heroine Lara Croft ), must play a game of Senet in order to advance through the Tomb of Semerkhet level.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

Lara Croft primarily appears in the Tomb Raider video game series published by Square Enix Europe ( previously Eidos Interactive ).

The use of the Hawk-Eye brand and simulation has been licensed to Codemasters for use in the video game Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 to make the game appear more like television coverage, and subsequently in Brian Lara International Cricket 2007, Ashes Cricket 2009 and International Cricket 2010.

In 2011, GameFront placed her brests at ninth place on the list of " the greatest boobs in video game history ," calling her " the existential crisis version of Lara Croft ;" she was also included on the list of " incredible chests in video games " by Joystick Division, but with a comment that she " has much more than sex appeal.

Hawes is also known for voicing various roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series.

The Master Chief is a video game icon, a relative newcomer among more established franchise characters, such as Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lara Croft.

* In the adventure video game, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Lara Croft kills her mother, who became a monstrous parody of her former self.