Biography:
During her "nutter" years as a teenager in London, Rhona enveloped
herself in the club scene and developed a liking for ecstacy and
cocaine,a drug habit that tied into the all-night and day raves she
attended. Four years passed before she decided to pursue acting at the
suggestion of her mother.
 Rhona's
career continued to progress when she filmed her first movie.
Early
in her career, Mitra took on any work she could find, including
playing Tomb Raider's Lara Croft at trade shows. After four years of
working in British theater, television and film, and especially
following her lead role in the American-produced motion picture Beowulf
(1999), (Rhona
Mitra showed herself to the wider audiences playing the romantic
interest of Christopher Lambert in Beowulf.)
Mitra decided to try her luck in Los Angeles. Her first job after
moving was a recurring guest role on the hit TV series Party of Five,
followed by her challenging first American-shot film role-a girl who
gets raped by an invisible man in Hollow Man (2000). - Rhona
Mitra had a small role in the film Hollow Man, as a neighbor assaulted
by Kevin Bacon's character.
 On
the big screen, she's appeared in Get Carter (2000) starring Sylvester
Stallone, Sweet Home Alabama (2002) with Reese Witherspoon, starred
opposite James Caviezel in Highwaymen (2003), played a supporting role
opposite Jim Carrey in The Number 23 (2007). In
2008, Mitra starred in the lead role of the science fiction/action film
Doomsday as Major Eden Sinclair and in 2009 went on to star in
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as Sonja, the daughter of the powerful
vampire elder Viktor. She also appeared in three episodes of Stargate
Universe. 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. She is
set to star as Elsie Knocker in the upcoming movie Four Saints.
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