Rhona Mitra

 
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Rhona Mitra

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  • Born: Aug 09, 1976
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Thriller, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Highwaymen, A Kid in Aladdin's Palace, Beowulf
  • First Major Screen Credit: A Kid in Aladdin's Palace (1997)

Biography

British actress Rhona Mitra's rise to success was helped by two unlikely and dissimilar factors: a video game and an American teen drama. Born in London's Paddington district on August 9, 1976, Mitra was, by her own admission, a troubled adolescent who was expelled from two boarding schools and spent several years involved in London's club culture. In time, she developed an interest in acting and, deciding it was time to take a more serious approach to her life, enrolled in drama school. After one year in the three-year program, Mitra was convinced she knew enough to start looking for work, and began performing in regional theater. In 1997, after landing small roles in several British television shows, she was cast as Flora in a three-part television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, and made her film debut the same year in a fantasy adventure for children, A Kid in Aladdin's Palace, in which she played Sheherazade. In 1998, Mitra's resemblance to Laura Croft, the heroine of the popular video game Tomb Raider, won her a job impersonating Croft at trade shows and gaming conventions in the U.K.; she spent most of the year as Croft, and even made an album in which she sang several songs as the character. That same year, Mitra found time to play a small role in the acclaimed British drama Croupier. In 1999, her career got a major boost in the United States when she was cast in the recurring role of Holly Beggins, a British student studying medicine in America, on the successful television series Party of Five. Mitra spent the better part of a year on the show, and in 2000, found herself moving up to portraying a full-fledged doctor, Dr. Ollie Klein, on the well-regarded medical drama Gideon's Grossing, which left the air in 2001. Mitra's television work helped raise her profile in the film industry, and she earned showy supporting roles in Hollow Man, Get Carter, and Sweet Home Alabama. ~ All Movie Guide

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Rhona Mitra
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Rhona Mitra
Born August 9 1976 (1976--) (age 31)
Paddington, London
Official site www.rhonamitraonline.com

Rhona Mitra (born August 9, 1976) is a British actress. She is sometimes credited as Rona Mitra.

Biography

Early life

Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, to Nora and Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon. Her father is part Indian and part English; her mother is Irish.[1] In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced and, as part of an overall lifestyle change, she was sent to boarding school. Several years passed at two different all-girls schools, including Roedean, but Mitra was eventually expelled from both of them. She has been quoted as saying: "I was kicked out [of Roedean] for taking a sixth-former's car and driving it down to the local boys' school. I was only 14. I left stuffing under my bed sheets but one of my friends told on me and the headmistress tracked me down. They put me in this room with bars on the windows to punish me. I was stuck in there for a whole week with just a rosary for comfort, having my dinner brought in on trays. The only time I got out was to say confession to the school priest. After that, they booted me out. Then at the next school the other girls used to blame me whenever they got caught for something, so all the parents wrote in and said they didn't want me at the school. I crammed my exams in London and did fine."[1]

Career

In 2000, Mitra had a small, non-speaking part as a victim of the title role villain in the film Hollow Man. She appeared in the final season of The Practice playing Tara, and continued that role into its spin-off Boston Legal, but left not long into the second season. She also appeared as the first live action model for Lara Croft, the lead character in Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider video game series. Mitra was ranked #46 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001.[2] In 2005, she had a recurring role of Kit McGraw during Season 3 of Nip/Tuck.

Filmography

Notable TV guest appearances

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b http://www.cubeit.com/ctimes/news0077i.htm
  2. ^ FreeJose.com. Maxim Magazine Hot 100 Women of 2001.

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Preceded by
Nathalie Cook		 Lara Croft model
1994–1996		 Succeeded by
Vanessa Demouy

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