Rosamund Pike

Born in London in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actor. She was the only child of a classically trained violinist mother Caroline (Friend) as well as an opera singer father Julian Pike. Due to their jobs, she spent her childhood travelling around Europe. Pike attended Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. While appearing in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and signed by an agent. However, she continued to study in Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second class with an honors degree.Pike has appeared in a variety of UK television series, including Wives and Daughters (1999) after which she made an impressive movie debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); at the time the film premiered in 2002, she was only 23 years old. Her first film was a high-budget action film. However, her subsequent film work was mostly independent films such as Promised Land (2004) and The Libertine (2004). The Libertine won her the Best Supporting Actress prize at The British Independent Film Awards. Pride & Prejudice (2005) included Pike as one of the Bennet girls. Following the action movie, Doom (2006) as well as the action thriller Fracture (2007), Pike had a brief appearance in Hollywood film. She then returned to smaller film and starred in some impressive performance in three movies: An Education (2008), Made in Dagenham (2010) and the lead role with 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). Pike returned to action movies with the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).