Game of Thrones, X-Men Star Sophie Turner Confirmed to Play Lara Croft in Amazon's Tomb Raider Series

Amazon’s Tomb Raider bid volition commencement shooting successful 2026, with Game of Thrones prima Sophie Turner confirmed to play Lara Croft.

Turner is best-known for her relation arsenic Sansa Stark successful Game of Thrones, though she has besides played Jean Grey successful X-Men: Dark Phoenix and X-Men: Apocalypse.

Production kicks disconnected successful January astir 2 years aft the bid was fixed the thumbs up astatine Prime Video. Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge is creator, writer, and enforcement shaper connected the series. Variety reported that Chad Hodge has signed connected arsenic co-showrunner, with Jonathan van Tulleken successful spot arsenic manager and enforcement producer.

Sophie turner volition play Lara Croft successful Amazon's Tomb Raider series. Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images.

Lara Croft was of people played by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander successful movie adaptations of the celebrated video game. More recently, Netflix aired its ain anime instrumentality connected Tomb Raider, with Marvel prima Hayley Atwell voicing the pb character.

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