Rosamund Pike

Born in London in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actor. She is the sole child of a classically trained violinist mom Caroline (Friend) and an opera singer father Julian Pike. Due to their work, she spent in her early years traveling throughout Europe. Pike was born in Bristol and attended Badminton School. She then began acting at National Youth Theatre. While appearing in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and contracted by an agent, although she continued her studies in Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second class with an honors degree.Pike appeared in a number of UK TV shows such as 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, she was only 23. Although her first film was a huge-budget action film, her performance was mostly in smaller independent films such as Promised Land (2004) and The Libertine (2004). The Libertine won her the Best Supporting Actress Award at The British Independent Film Awards for the film. Pride & Prejudice (2005) was her first feature film. Following the action film Doom (2006) as well as the action thriller Fracture (2007), Pike was briefly a part of Hollywood film. She then returned to smaller film with remarkable performance in three films: An Education (2008) Then, she starred in 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-films as the main actress, playing Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).