Rosamund Pike

Born in London, England in 1979, Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the sole child of Caroline (Friend) who was an accomplished classical violinist mother, as well as Julian Pike, an opera musician dad. Her childhood was spent traveling across Europe due to the work of her parents. Pike went to Badminton School in Bristol, England and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. As a performer in the National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and contracted by an agent. However, she continued her education 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 television series, including Wives and Daughters (1999) prior to making her movie debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); when the film was released in 2002, she was only 23 years old. While her film debut was a major-budget action feature The film work that followed was primarily in smaller independent films, such as Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards) and Pride & Prejudice (2005), as one of the Bennet daughters. Following the action movie, Doom (2006) as well as the action thriller Fracture (2007), Pike was briefly a part of Hollywood film. In the end, she returned to smaller films with extraordinary performances in three movies: An Education (2008), 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). She was back in action films with the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).