With Sophie Turner already confirmed to play Lara Croft, the other castmembers of Amazon Prime Video‘s upcoming “Tomb Raider” live-action series are slowly being assembled as production gears up to start in January.
Variety has learned that Martin Bobb-Semple, the rising British star most recently seen in a recurring role on The CW’s “All American: Homecoming,” has joined the series, based on the iconic video game series. While details are under wraps, it’s understood to be as a series regular and a major role for the Londoner.
As previously reported, Phoebe Waller–Bridge will serve as creator, writer, and executive producer on the series, which has been in development at Prime Video since early 2023 and was officially greenlit in May 2024. Chad Hodge has also boarded the show as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Waller-Bridge. Jonathan van Tulleken will serve as director and executive producer. Shooting is due to begin Jan. 19.
Bobb-Semple was most recently seen as the series regular, Orlando “Lando” Johnson, in “All American: Homecoming.” Starting as a recurring character, he was upped to a series lead in season 3. Before that, he starred in two seasons of Peacock’s “One of Us is Lying,” and was a series lead in “Free Reign” for Netflix. Starting from a young age, his first role was in London’s West End, before he trained at the famed Identity School of Acting. From there, he shortly booked his first TV role for the BBC.
The “Tomb Raider” series is executive produced by Crystal Dynamics; Waller-Bridge and Jenny Robins via Wells Street Productions; Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson of Story Kitchen; Michael Scheel; Hodge; van Tulleken; and Legendary Television. The series is produced by Story Kitchen, Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios. Waller-Bridge is currently under an overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios.
The show was developed under a pact between Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios which comes via Story Kitchen’s first-look deal with the studio to develop additional “Tomb Raider” stories into series and films.
Bobb-Semple is repped by Identity Agency Group.