Richard James Croft
Lord Richard Henshingly Croft is Lara's father.
In the original storyline he was still alive and disowned his daughter Lara. Since the first movie however, where he also got his first name Richard, it is said that he was an archaeologist and died under mysterious circumstances while on a dig in Cambodia.
He is/was married to Lady Amelia Croft, Lara's mother.
Tomb Raider Chronicles
At the beginning of Chronicles Lara is missing in Egypt presumed dead. The FMV shows her memorial statue being visited by a huddled couple in the rain. It was generally supposed by the TR fandom at the time that the couple were Lara's parents, both still alive and visiting their daughter's grave.
Retconned biography from Anniversary
- Main article: Retroactive Continuity
Lord Richard Croft, was tutored at Eton in anthropology and archaeology. With the considerable wealth of the Croft family behind him, Richard spent his younger years mounting innumerable expeditions to historical sites world wide in an effort to support his unconventional hypothesis of a base culture that predated known history. Richard and his wife, Lady Amelia DeMornay, had Lara only a year after marrying. Nine years later, after Amelia disappeared in a plane crash, Richard sank further and further into obsession, consumed with discovering what had become of her. A few years later, he himself died while on a dig in Cambodia.
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