Lara Croft voice actress revealed
William & Kate, Californication actress Camilla Luddington lending her voice and performance skills to the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot.
English actress Camilla Luddington will be lending her voice to Tomb Raider in the new game, due March 5, 2013. Publisher Square Enix said that her work would not be limited to voice acting, confirming she would be taking on motion-capture duties as a "performance actress" as well.
Luddington’s notable roles include Kate Middleton in the TV movie William & Kate and Lizzie in Showtime's TV series Californication. Luddington also has a role in the future episodes of the vampire drama True Blood.
Square Enix said it was the actress's "youthful tone" as well as "depth of emotion" that made her right for the role as the young Lara Croft. Tomb Raider is a reboot of the aging franchise, telling an origin story for the gun-toting archaeologist seen in earlier games.
Luddington will be attending Comic-Con 2012 and Nerd HQ alongside the development team to discuss Tomb Raider and her role.
CORRECTION: This story originally stated that Californication was produced by HBO, not Showtime. We regret the error.
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Is this woman a good voice actress? Because all I am getting from these comments. Is that horny people wanna do stuff to her. LOL I guess I'll bing search her name. (yes I know she gets naked.)
Hey, she's hot too. Appropriate since she's supposed to be playing someone attractive (I know she's not a real woman)
5 Like The voice acting in the E3 trailer was horrible. Every time Lara spoke I wanted to tear my ears off.
2 Like I Searched YouTube for her name and watched her appearance on Late Night. She is incredibly annoying and her fake Americanisms and accent do my head in.
"...confirming she would be taking on motion-capture duties as a "performance actress" as well." This suddenly made me think what would happen if Christian Bale was doing motion capture for a game. "No! No! We either do it at the top of a real cliff, or I'm done with you professionally!" :P
meh... didn't really care for this latest season of Californication, or her role in it. That show was really good until it's peak at the end of the 3rd season. Since then it's just been going downhill.
3 Like Knowing that this babe's voice and body will behind Lara Croft's makes me think I'll enjoy the game more. Sold.
1 Like "Luddington will provide, voice, facial, and motion capture for the game"
Quick Google image search: Camilla Luddington
"Camilla Luddington Topless in Californication"
nice
Is she a good voice actress? No clue. Is she hot? Hell yes. Sadly, that's all I got out of this article :P
6 Like I'd use my dagger of xian to raid her tomb.
I'd raid the tomb of that angel's darkness.
Some other sort of pun involving her underworld.
Oh, yeah. I forgot they were holding this news back.
Not sure why. Seems they could have just said, 'Oh, by the way, Lara's being voiced by Camilla Luddington.'
Done.
So that's why yahtzee complained about the voice acting in the trailers and demos.
I haven't noticed discrepancies but sloppy fake English voice acting is never a good thing.
5 Like Finally, the woman behind the orgasmic screams, and heavy breathing is revealed! ;)
2 Like Liked the voice acting on new Tomb Raider ( based on the demos, gameplay footage) plus she looks really gorgeous as well. I am actually looking forward to a Tomb Raider game after a very long time.
3 Like I don't get why they didn't hire Rhona Mitra.
Not only was Rhona Mitra the first big "Lara Croft" model that they used back in the 90's, but she's also a good actress who looks like Lara + sounds like her.
5 Like Thank you images.google.com with your Safe Search Filter being turned off.
Camilla Luddington
1 Like She kinda looks like Lara, at least the semi realistic lara from the latest games. I've only seen her in californication, and she has a very quaint english accent in it. If she uses the same accent in the game, it would be a little off putting, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she might actually be good as a voice actor.
And a hot young actress wouldn't hurt in promoting this awesome looking game.
yes realistic and incredibly sexist lara. This game is a step backwards for women and insulting to the intelligence of the gaming world
@super_voltron I for one think that the game isn't an insult to the intelligence of the gaming world. You see unrealistic models of men, from Gears of War/ Assassins Creed/ Call of Duty/ Battlefield/ Hitman etc. They are bullet sponges and none of them are fat or unfit. How is it different in Tomb Raider ? I agree that in the initial games her assets were unreal. But who wants to play as an unfit person ? If you tell me that you would rather play as a fat man in any of the above games, I'd call you a liar. Video games protagonists in action games HAVE to be fit to lend their actions some degree of credence.
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