Rhona Mitra

Rhona Natasha Mitra (Bengali) (sometimes credited as Rona Mitra; born 9 August 1976) is an English actress, model and singer.

Early life

Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Antony Mitra, a cosmeticsurgeon, and Nora Downey. She has an older brother, Jason Wath Mitra, who is two years her senior, and a younger brother Guyan who is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and The Sunday Times. Her father is of English and Indian descent, and her mother is Irish. In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced, and she was sent to boarding school. She spent several years at two different schools, including Roedean, but Mitra says she was eventually expelled from both of them.

Career

Mitra played the romantic interest of Christopher Lambert in Beowulf. Her first main role came asScott Wolf's illicit love interest on Party of Five. In 2000, Mitra had a small role in the film Hollow Man, as a neighbour assaulted by Kevin Bacon's character. She had a main role in 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). She also appeared in three episodes of Stargate Universe.

Mitra appeared as the live action model for Lara Croft, the lead character in Eidos Interactive'sTomb Raider video game series. Mitra was ranked #46 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. 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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Ghostbusters of East Finchley	Cass
1996	The Bill	Sarah Wickes
1997	Lust for Glorious	French girl #1
1997	The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous	Flora Seymour
1998	The Pepsi Chart	Herself	Co-presenter
1998	A Kid in Aladdin's Palace	Sheherazade
1998	Croupier	Girl with joint
1998	Monk Dawson	Mollie
1999	How to Breed Gibbons	Juliet
1999	Beowulf	Kyra
2000	Secret Agent Man	Lacey Sullivan
2000	Party of Five	Holly Begins	12 episodes
2000	Hollow Man	Sebastian's Neighbor
2000	Get Carter	Geraldine
2000	Gideon's Crossing	Dr. Alejandra 'Ollie' Klein	20 episodes
2002	Ali G Indahouse	Kate Hedges
2002	Sweet Home Alabama	Tabatha Wadmore-Smith
2003	Highwaymen	Molly
2003	The Life of David Gale	Berlin
2003	Stuck on You	Bus Stop Bombshell
2003	The Practice	Tara Wilson	22 episodes
2004	Spartacus	Varinia
2004	Boston Legal	Tara Wilson	20 episodes
2005	Nip/Tuck	Detective Kit McGraw	5 episodes
2006	Skinwalkers	Rachel Talbot
2007	The Number 23	Laura Tollins
2007	Shooter	Alourdes Galindo
2008	Doomsday	Eden Sinclair
2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Sonja
2009	Stolen	Barbara Adkins
2009	Separation City	Katrien Becker
2010	Stargate Universe	Kiva	3 episodes
2010	Re-Uniting the Rubins	Andie Rubins
2010	The Gates	Radcliff	13 episodes
2011	Bad Karma	Kelly

Discography

Albums

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

Singles

• "Getting Naked" (1997)

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