Mini Biography
Born on January 28, 1979 in London, England, actress Rosamund Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother and an opera singer father. Due to her parents' work, she spent her early childhood travelling around Europe, and speaks fluent German and French as a result. Pike attended Badminton School in Bristol, England and began 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, although she continued her education at Wadham College, Oxford where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second class honors degree.
Pike appeared in a number of UK television series, including "Wives and Daughters" (1999), before scoring an auspicious feature film debut as the glacial beauty Miranda Frost in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); when the film was released, she was only 23. Though her debut was a big-budget action film, the film work that followed was primarily in smaller, independent films including _Promised Land (II) (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. A brief foray into Hollywood film followed with the action flick Doom (2005) and the thriller Fracture (2007), but she returned to smaller films with exceptional performances in three films: An Education (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010), and the lead opposite Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version (2010).
As she continued her stage work in England, Pike appeared in the spy spoof Johnny English Reborn (2011) and inhabited the role of Andromeda in the sci-fi epic Wrath of the Titans (2012). She returned to action films with the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).
Filmography
2014 Violet Town (pre-production)
2014 Hector and the Search for Happiness (filming)
2013 A Long Way Down (post-production)
2013 The World's End (post-production)
2012 Jack Reacher
Helen
2012 Wrath of the Titans
Andromeda
2012 Devil You Know
Zoe Hughes
2011 The Big Year
Jessica
2011 Johnny English Reborn
Kate Sumner
2011 The Organ Grinder's Monkey (short)
Rochelle
2011 Women in Love (TV series)
Gudrun Brangwen
2010 Made in Dagenham
Lisa Hopkins
2010 Barney's Version
Miriam Grant-Panofsky
2010 Jackboots on Whitehall
Daisy (voice)
2010 Burning Palms
Dedra
2009 Yesterday We Were in America (video)
Narrator
2009 Surrogates
Maggie
2009 Freefall (TV movie)
Anna
2009 An Education
Helen
2008 The Tower (TV movie)
Olivia Wynn
2007 Fugitive Pieces
Alex
2007 Fracture
Nikki Gardner
2005 Doom
Samantha Grimm
2005 Pride & Prejudice
Jane Bennet
2004 The Libertine
Elizabeth Malet
2004/II Promised Land
Rose
2002 Die Another Day
Miranda Frost
2002 Foyle's War (TV series)
Sarah Beaumont
2001 Love in a Cold Climate (TV mini-series)
Fanny
2000 Trial & Retribution (TV series)
Lucy - Barker's P.A.
1999 Wives and Daughters (TV mini-series)
Lady Harriet Cumnor / Lady Harriet
1998 A Rather English Marriage (TV movie)
Celia
