Rhona Mitra Biography

Rhona Natasha Mitra (born 9 August 1976) is an English actress, model, singer, and songwriter.

Mitra began her career as a model. She came to prominence as the Lara Croft model between 1997 and 1998. After completing her stint as Lara Croft, she concentrated on acting and is best known for her roles as Holly Marie Begins on the sixth season of Party of Five (1999-2000); as Tara Wilson on the final season of The Practice (2003-2004) and the first and second seasons of Boston Legal (2004-2005); as Detective Kit McGraw on the third season of Nip/Tuck (2005); in the lead role of the science fiction/action film Doomsday as Major Eden Sinclair (2008); as Sonja in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009); and as Major Rachel Dalton on the third and fourth seasons of Strike Back (2012-2013); and as Dr. Rachel Scott in the first two seasons of The Last Ship (2014-2015).

Early life

Mitra was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon, and Nora Downey. Her father is of Bengali descent, while her mother is Irish. She has a brother, Jason, who is two years older, and a younger brother, Guyan, who is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and The Sunday Times.

Career

Mitra appeared as the live action model for Lara Croft, the lead character in Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider video game series before Angelina Jolie took the role for the two Tomb Raider films (2001-2003). Mitra was ranked No. 46 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. She played the romantic interest of Christopher Lambert in Beowulf. Her first main role came as Scott Wolf's illicit love interest on Party of Five. In 2000, Mitra had a small role in the film Hollow Man, as a neighbour sexually assaulted by Kevin Bacon's character. She had a main role in the medical drama Gideon's Crossing, as Dr. Alejandra "Ollie" Klein. Mitra then had roles in Ali G Indahouse, Sweet Home Alabama, Stuck on You, and leading roles in Highwaymen and Spartacus. Mitra appeared in the final season of The Practice as Tara Wilson, and continued that role into its spin-off Boston Legal, but left not long into the second season. In 2005, Mitra played the role of Kit McGraw during Season 3 of Nip/Tuck. Mitra then went on to appear in Skinwalkers, The Number 23 and Shooter.

In 2008, Mitra starred in the lead role of the science fiction/action film Doomsday as Major Eden Sinclair (sometimes mistakenly named in some databases as being Caryn Peterson), and in 2009 went on to star in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as Sonja, the daughter of the powerful vampire elder Viktor (played by Bill Nighy). While filming, she grew fond of her vampire fangs, even declining to remove them when they couldn't be seen. "I put those fangs on the first day and I felt they should always have been there; it's strange. So I kept them in through the entire time of shooting, throughout all my dialogue and everything." She also appeared in three episodes of Stargate Universe.

She stars in the 2010 Anders Anderson thriller film Stolen, alongside Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm and James Van Der Beek. She portrayed Claire Radcliff in the 2010 ABC supernatural series The Gates. She played Major Rachel Dalton on Cinemax's series Strike Back: Project Vengeance, replacing Amanda Mealing.

In 2014 and 2015, she played Dr. Rachel Scott in the first two seasons of Michael Bay's post-apocalyptic television series, The Last Ship.

Nominations

Rhona Mitra was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 from Boston Legal TV Series. She was also nominated in 2009 for Scream Awards for Best Actress from Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Eddie Izzard: Glorious	Groupie	Direct to video
1998	'	Sheherazade	Direct to video
1998	Croupier	Girl with Joint
1998	Monk Dawson	Mollie Jolliffe
1999	How to Breed Gibbons	Juliet	Short film
1999	Beowulf	Kyra
2000	Hollow Man	Sebastian's Neighbor
2000	Get Carter	Geraldine
2002	Ali G Indahouse	Kate Hedges
2002	Sweet Home Alabama	Tabatha Wadmore-Smith
2003	'	Berlin
2003	Stuck on You	Bus Stop Bombshell
2004	Highwaymen	Molly Poole
2006	Skinwalkers	Rachel Talbot
2007	'	Laura Tollins
2007	Shooter	Alourdes Galindo
2008	Doomsday	Eden Sinclair
2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Sonja
2009	Separation City	Katrien Becker
2009	Stolen	Barbara Adkins
2010	Reuniting the Rubins	Andie Rubin
2014	'	Allison Vanowen
2016	Hard Target 2	Sofia	Direct to video

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Ghostbusters of East Finchley	Cass	Episode: "1.5"
1996	'	Sarah Wickes	Episode: "Outer"
1997	Lust for Glorious	La Dame Franaise	TV film
1997	'	Flora Seymour	TV miniseries
1999-2000	Party of Five	Holly Marie Beggins	Recurring role (12 episodes)
2000	Secret Agent Man	Lacey Sullivan	Episode: "Supernaked"
2000-01	Gideon's Crossing	Dr. Alejandra Ollie Klein	Main role (20 episodes)
2003-04	'	Tara Wilson	Main role (22 episodes)
2004	Spartacus	Varinia	TV miniseries
2004	Boston Legal	Tara Wilson	Main role (20 episodes)
2005	Nip/Tuck	Kit McGraw	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2010	Stargate Universe	Commander Kiva	Episodes: "Subversion", "Incursion: Parts 1 & 2"
2010	'	Claire Radcliff	Main role (13 episodes)
2012	Crisis Point	Cameron Grainger	TV film
2012-13	Strike Back	Maj. Rachel Dalton	Regular role (14 episodes)
2014-15	The Last Ship	Dr. Rachel Scott	Main role (23 episodes)

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Tomb Raider II	Lara Croft	Live Action Model
2016	Squadron 42	Executive Officer Kelly	Voice / Motion Capture

Discography

Studio albums

• Come Alive (1998, produced by Dave Stewart)
• Female Icon (1999, produced by Dave Stewart)

Singles

• "Getting Naked" (1997)