Ah, yes, no doubt in my mind. Even better than Angelina Jolie. Heck, even better than the pixelized Lara Croft herself! A self-confessed tomboy, this London-born model of Irish-Moroccan origins has been portraying the legendary video game heroine since February 2006, becoming the seventh official person to do so. This job is not just standing still and looking pretty in pictures: you must submit to a tough training schedule, including survival techniques, combat and semi automatic weapon firing courses, and even some basics in archeology, fields of expertise displayed by the Lara Croft character.

I officially met Karima in full costume by viewing the now defunct French talk show Tout le monde en parle, where she displayed an appropriate indifferent attitude towards host Thierry Ardisson’s inane questioning. Ardisson has a colorful history in trying to embarrass young female guests on his program by posing impertinent questions about their love lives, sex lives, etc. Karima kept her cool all the way, doing justice to the character she so aptly portrays.

Her bikini modeling pictures are not bad either! Let’s note also that Karima had a minuscule part in AVP: Alien vs. Predator, cast as “Sacrificial Maiden”!