| 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. |
FILMOGRAPHY
• Highwaymen (2004)
• Passion of the Priest (2004)
• The Life of David Gale (2003)
• Ali G Indahouse (2002)
• Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
• Get Carter (2000)
• Hollow Man (2000)
• Beowulf (1999)
• A Kid in Aladdin's Palace (1998)
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