Rhona Mitra
as Lara Croft

As Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Rhona Mitra attended trade shows and participated in media events, always in character. She had breast enlargement surgery to further her image as a true Croft look-alike.

Rhona sang a number of tracks for the video game's soundtrack, working with musician and songwriter Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. The songs were recorded while they toured the Amazon river. "I was pinching myself the whole time. It was the most bonkers thing ever. One minute I was doing a play in Battersea Arts Centre, and the next I was on a boat up the Amazon with this rod god, both of us with feathers on our heads, writing mad songs and drinking rum."

Rhona on working the trade shows as Lara, and gaining the reputation of being hard to work with:

"I did give them a hard time. I said, 'I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that, and i'm not doing that!' i was really determined that I would not crucify the name and the image of Lara Croft."

Still, she described the experience as "a two-dimensional thing - guns and tits and ass. And what I saw her as was very iconic. She was a representation of an attitude, not male or female. I breathed stuff into her they never wanted."

"They got the wrong girl to do the job."