Jonathan Reiss is the primary antagonist appearing in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and is portrayed by Ciaran Hinds. He is the owner of one of the top selling bio-mechanical weapon industries in the world named after him and stationed in Hong Kong and Shanghai, China. He is ruthless, tyrannical leader with a low tolerance of betrayal and interruption in his never ending quest for power which ultimately gets in the way of Lara Croft.