Alix Wilton Regan talks stepping into Lara Croft's boots for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis

At IGN Live 2026, Alix Wilton Regan – known for Assassin's Creed Origins and Dota: Dragon's Blood – sat down to talk about playing Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a remake of the original 1996 game. The title launches February 12, 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.

Regan didn't hold back on how it feels to take on the role: \"It's amazing. Lara is a British cultural icon, she's a global icon. She is loved and I love her as much as everyone else, so I'm ecstatic.\" She described Lara as \"so completely confident in herself, in her abilities, her brain, her body, her being.\" The team has also pulled iconic lines directly from the 1996 original, and Regan said she loved \"just getting to play those lines with kind of that 90s sass being brought up to 2026.\" She teased a \"brilliant cast\" attached to the project but said she can't name names yet.

Regan is actually voicing Lara across two games — Legacy of Atlantis features a younger Lara, while the upcoming Tomb Raider: Catalyst will see her play an older version of the character. Keeping the two distinct takes deliberate effort: \"You break them down as much as possible. You ask your collaborators to help you keep track of it because it is tricky. We're trying to do something different with the voice in each game.\" The mocap work has been physically demanding — the team has done three-week shoots at a stretch, and Regan laughed that \"you get a bit hot and sweaty and extremely intimate with your costars doing ten hours in a mocap suit.\" For motivation on the long days, she admitted she spends a lot of time looking at Lara's avatar on screen: \"She is so smoking hot — I think we can all agree on that.\"

The panel also debuted a snippet of a new Meet Lara Croft featurette, where Regan and the game's creators discuss the character's legacy and this latest take on her. The full video is up on IGN now.