Rosamund Pike

Born in London, England in 1979, Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the sole child of Caroline (Friend) who was the classical violinist's mother as well as Julian Pike, an opera musician dad. Because of their work, she spent in her early years traveling throughout Europe. Pike was born in Bristol and went to Badminton School. She then began acting in the National Youth Theatre. While appearing in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and was signed 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 grade distinction degree.Pike appeared in a number of UK TV shows such as Wives and Daughters (1999) and then made 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 high-budget action movie The film following was primarily in smaller, independent films, including Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she received the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards) and Pride & Prejudice (2005), as one of the Bennet daughters. Following the action film, Doom (2006) as well as the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike attempted a brief stint in Hollywood film. But, she returned to smaller films with remarkable performances in three films: An Education (2008) Then, she starred in Dagenham (2010), and 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 films as the lead actress opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).