Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell has been cast as the voice of Lara Croft in Netflix and Legendary's upcoming Tomb Raider anime series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Atwell, who is best known for portraying Marvel's Peggy Carter, has joined the voice cast of another Netflix animated series after her turn voicing Zadra in 3Below: Tales of Arcadia. This time, Atwell will be lending her voice to Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider anime series based on Square Enix's popular game.
Tasha Huo is on board to write and executive produce the new Netflix show, which is set after the events of Crystal Dynamics' video game reboot trilogy. Legendary Entertainment, the company that worked with Netflix on the Lost in Space remake, are also attached to the project alongside Sonic the Hedgehog film producers dj2 Entertainment.
Atwell has starred as Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger. The actress also headlined her own Agent Carter spinoff series at ABC following her earlier appearances on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. She recently reprised her MCU character for Marvel's What If? anthology series on Disney Plus.
Netflix first announced its plans for a Tomb Raider anime series back in January, as part of a growing line-up of video game adaptations heading to the streamer. It joins several other titles currently in the works, including an animated Sonic the Hedgehog series, an anime set in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077, and a live-action adaptation of Assassin's Creed.
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