Rosamund Pike

In 1979, in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the sole child of a classically trained violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and a opera father of a singer, Julian Pike. She spent her early years traveling throughout Europe due to the work of her parents. Pike was born in Bristol and attended Badminton School. She then started acting at National Youth Theatre. When she was in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and contracted by an agent. However, she continued her studies in Wadham College, Oxford, where she took classes in English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second grade honors degree.Pike played in a range of UK TV shows which included Wives and Daughters (1999), before scoring an auspicious debut in a feature film as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); at the time the film premiered at the age of 23, she was just 23. Her first film was a large-budget action movie. But, her subsequent films were mostly independent films, such as Promised Land (2004) and The Libertine (2004). For which she was awarded the award for Best Supporting Actress prize in The British Independent Film Awards. Pride & Prejudice (2005) featured Pike as one of the Bennet girls. After a brief period in Hollywood, Doom (2005) and Fracture (2006), she returned to film with exceptional performances in three of the smaller films. She also appeared in Johnny English Reborn (2011) and the sci-fi drama Wrath of the Titans (2012). Pike returned to action movies featuring a female lead with Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).







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