The actress, known for her work on Californication and as Kate Middleton in made-for-TV movie William & Kate, will also provide motion capture acting in addition to voice work.
This will be the first time Lara has had her motion capture provided by the same person as her voice – Eurogamer reports that Keeley Hawes and Minnie Driver just did vocal performances.
This latest reboot of the series has seen considerable controversy of late – with discussions of “rape scenes” and delays.
We first witnessed the new game back at E3 2011 behind closed doors, and it seems like it has been progressing nicely since.
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ron_mcphatty
I’ve seen William & Kate, its aaaaaawful! Fingers crossed she isn’t doing her embarassing Queen’s English accent. Also, shame it isn’t Keeley Hawes.
baggyg
Dont forget her work on True Blood! Was very ummmm good in Californication, and she has the voice for it
Tuffcub
Yes, she is awesomesauce in True Blood.
PoorPaddy89
Just looked her up as I didn’t recognise her, and it’s because I haven’t seen season 5 yet.
Now to put my unemployment time to good use…
cam the man
When I read the name I thought who! but now I know thanks to True Blood.
Kamokazi-UK
I knew i’d seen her in something. She was quite good in Californication for 2 reasons.. ;)
hazelam
i’m not familiar with her.
i haven’t watched later seasons of True Blood, though i want to, i just love that southern belle accent Anna Paquin does.
and i don’t plan to ever watch the bloody kate middleton thing, i don’t care if they do bring in tourists, i would be happy if i never heard another word about the royal bloody family.
anyway, from what i’ve seen, or heard, so far, she’s done a decent job, if she could make her pained moans sound a little less orgasmic though, that would be good.
wonkey-willy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkgylvDYA4
shwing!
Lymmusic
Schwing? :) really? Is it 1994 again?? What you gonna do? Drink some tab clear and pull an olley on your trutoys skateboard, while listening to bombalerina on your cd walkman? :))
freezebug2
Lol
I had to look up that word in the urban dictionary just to confirm suspicions….was naive in the 90’s :P
Shwing:
“A noise that a man makes when a fine woman walks by, usually meaning a sort of erection. This will sometimes be accompanied by a pelvic thrust.”
Forrest_01
Yeah, i don’t know if it actually originated from there or not, but its used in Waynes World a lot. Usually by Garth.
freezebug2
I guess these days “nursing a semi” would be used, but that could be mistaken for someone having dealings in the housing market!! :P
Forrest_01
…Or some sort of injection perhaps, but that’s not a nice thought!
igotmy9milli
She is fiiiiine.
wonkey-willy
[edit – just tell people to google her, don’t link to that from TSA!] -cb
sorry couldn’t resist
Forrest_01
You have a wonderful way of creating intrigue cb – I now want to know what it was! :p
The Lone Steven
It was a link to porn basically. I wonder if Peter has now spent the afternoon looking at said porn?
Forrest_01
So actress mentioned above was in porn was she? Blimey.
The Lone Steven
Yeah, but twas just naked pictures. According to the link. *puts away tissues and lotion*
Forrest_01
Hmmm, you seem to know an awful lot about this Steve? :P
Awayze
I see Tomb Raider is still based on Angelina Jolie lookalikes.
Forrest_01
Should have gone to specsavers Awayze.
Awayze
I did but Vision Express had major brands like Armani so I wanted the Armani glasses so I’m a VE customer lol.
Forrest_01
Haha – Fair enough. :)
Cutter.T
Explains that awful accent, how hard is it to get proper actors with the right accent. Even Uncharted has proper British actors for those parts. (Although any other foreign accent does appear to be fair game :/) Heavy Rain was just as annoying with Brits and Frenchies doing US accents, get the real ****** thing!
MrSpeedyGonzales
I kind of agree with you, but metro 2033 had real Russians doing the voice work and they sucked. The main problem is, is that a lot of Americans (not all though) have a bad ear for accents. They can’t tell between a poor foreign accent and the real thing. I do think if developers put the time in to find good foreign actors, who can speak clear English, it would be far better than an American putting on an accent.
Uhyve
Erm, imDB says she’s from the UK. Also, look at her name, she’s quite obviously English.
The Lone Steven
She seems familar. I think she may have been in Terminator:The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
Actually, i was begining to think Nolan North was voicing her and had managed to pull off a natural sounding female british voice. :p
It’s not often that a VA does their own motion capture. The only VA that i can think of who has also done their own motion capture was Rebuen Langdon(the bloke who voiced Dante in DMC3&4 as well as the anime before Dante went all twilight on us)
Forrest_01
I think you may possibly be confusing her with Summer Glau actually (who was the terminator on Johns side in it). Although Camilla does do a lot of American TV, i don’t think she was ever in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
I think you are most likely to have seen her in Californication or True Blood as mentioned above… Unless of course you watched William & Kate??? :S
The Lone Steven
Haven’t watched any of those shows you’ve mentioned. But she does remind me of her.
Forrest_01
Yeah, a bit i guess – You also reminded me that i need to crack on with the second series of SCC, which i started last night. So ta! :)
gazzagb
Never heard of her before, but she is fit! I hope she has a decent British accent, and not a stereotypical one.