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

Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals ( ODIs ), has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.

Before the end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.

Lara stated this would be his last appearance in international cricket, he has also indicated his interest in retaining some involvement in the sport.

Brian Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation, which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that aims to address health and social care issues.

Lara has dated former Durham County Cricket Club receptionist and British lingerie model Lynnsey Ward.

* Lara has scored an 20 % of his team runs, a feat surpassed only by Bradman ( 23 %) and George Headley ( 21 %).

* Comfortably averaging over 50 per innings ( the benchmark for batting greatness in Test cricket ), Lara has been ranked the number one batsman in Test cricket in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Cricket Ratings several times.

* Lara has played some of his best innings in recent years.

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 ).

She has two children by her former husband Manny Arvesu ( Julian and Lara Giuiliana ).

Helen Spitz ' boyfriend, Who also has two twin daughter's Lara And Sara who drive Sharon crazy, he struggles hard to be supportive of her and tries bonding with her offspring with not always successful results especially with Sharon or Adam.

He also commentates on the matches-a role he has also played in Brian Lara International Cricket series-and has found success.

* Lara Kriegel, in her 2007 book Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture, has examined Haydon's activities as a design reformer, especially his argument that mechanics and artisans should learn to draw from the figure in order to learn principles of taste.

Gordonstoun also has a notable fictional alumna, the heroine of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft was supposed to have attended the school in sixth year, and has also been used to advertise it.

The local radio stations are BBC Radio Humberside ( which has a studio on Victoria Street manned by Lara King ), Lincs FM, Viking FM and the exclusively North East Lincolnshire-based Compass FM.

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 is depicted as an athletic woman ; she has brown eyes and hair, frequently kept in a plait or ponytail.

The city contains two museums, one dedicated to Agustín Lara and the other a military ship that has been converted into a museum.

To date it has received in excess of 4. 5 million hits and portrays Dora as a ' Lara Croft ' type teenaged adventurer.

The station has had an entertainment focus, featuring artist such as: Manuel " Maber " Bernal, Emilio Tuero, Juan Arvizu, Luis Arcaráz, Nicolás Urcelay, Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, Los Panchos, Juan García Esquivel, Mario Ruiz Armengol, Maria Luisa Landín, María Victoria, Mario Moreno Cantinflas, Germán Valdés " Tin-Tan ", Agustín Lara, Toña la Negra, Angelines Fernández, Carmen Rey, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Pedro Vargas, Gustavo Adolfo Palma from Guatemala, Fernando Fernández, Eulalio González " Piporro ", Francisco Gabilondo Soler (" Cri-Cri "), Hugo Avendaño, Amparo Montes, Héctor Martínez Serrano, Antonio Aguilar, Paco Stanley among others.

Lara Croft first appeared in a crossover in Sara Pezzini's Witchblade, and later starred in her own comic book series in 1999.

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.

He then appeared in Reign of Fire ( 2002 ) as Creedy and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ( 2003 ) as Terry Sheridan, alongside Angelina Jolie.

In the UK she appeared in the Daily Star as a Page Three girl but it was her role as the Lara Croft model for the video game Tomb Raider between 1998 and 1999 that brought her to the public's attention.

Ten years later the cast from the ad had a reunion and Lara appeared with her name on the screen.

Since leaving Neighbours, Lara has appeared as a female rocker in a television advertisement for the Nestle chocolate bar Aero.

In the original TV series, the character was portrayed by Lara Parker, and appeared within several storylines of the series which aired from June 1966 through April 1971.

The statue first appeared in 1556, when Maria Manriquez de Lara brought the image to Bohemia as an wedding heirloom to Czech nobleman Vratislav of Pernstyn.