Rosamund Pike

Born in London in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actress. She was the sole child of a classical violinist mother Caroline (Friend) and an opera singer father Julian Pike. Due to her parents' jobs, she spent her early childhood traveling around Europe. Pike was born in Bristol and attended Badminton School. She then began her acting career at the National Youth Theatre. When she was in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and signed by an agent, although she continued her studies at Wadham College, Oxford, where she took classes in English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper-second class honors degree.Pike has appeared in a variety of UK TV shows such as Wives and Daughters (1999) prior to making her feature film debut as the stunning beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); at the time the film premiered it was released at just 23. While her debut film was a big-budget action movie, her film performance was mostly in smaller independent movies like Promised Land (2004) and The Libertine (2004). The Libertine won her the Best Supporting Actress Award at The British Independent Film Awards for this film. Pride & Prejudice (2005) was her first film. Following the action film, Doom (2006) and the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike made a brief foray into Hollywood film. She then returned to smaller film with exceptional performance in three films: An Education (2008) as well as Made in Dagenham (2010) as well as the leading 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). She returned to action films as the female lead alongside Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).