Rosamund Pike
Born in
London, England in 1979, Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the only child of
Caroline (Friend) Pike, an accomplished classical violinist mother, and Julian
Pike, an opera father of a singer. Both parents were extremely hard-working and
she traveled extensively across Europe in her early years. Pike went to
Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre.
When she was in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and
Juliet", she was first spotted and was signed by an agent. However, she
continued her studies at Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English
Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second-class with an honors
degree.Pike played in a range of UK TV series that included Wives and Daughters
(1999), before scoring an auspicious debut in feature films as the glacial
beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day
(2002); when the film debuted at the age of 23, she was just 23. The film that
she made her debut was a high-budget action film. However, her later film work
was primarily in independent films, such as Promised Land (2004) and The
Libertine (2004). The Libertine won her the award for Best Supporting Actress
prize at The British Independent Film Awards. Pride & Prejudice (2005)
was a film that featured Pike as one of the Bennet girls. Following the action
film, Doom (2006) and the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike made a brief
foray into Hollywood film. However, she returned to smaller-scale films with
remarkable performance in three movies: An Education (2008) Then, she starred
in Made in Dagenham (2010) as well as the leading role opposite Paul Giamatti
in Barney's Version (2010). In 2012, Pike portrayed the role of Andromeda in
the sci-fi epic Wrath of the Titans (2012). In the film, she starred with Tom
Cruise as her female leading character in Jack Reacher (2012), she returned to
action films.
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