Rosamund Pike
Born in London
in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actress. She is the sole child of a
classically trained violinist mom Caroline (Friend) as well as an opera singer
father Julian Pike. Her parents worked hard and she travelled extensively
throughout Europe during her childhood. Pike was born in Bristol and attended
Badminton School. She then began acting at National Youth Theatre. Pike first
appeared in the National Youth Theatre production "Romeo and Juliet".
She was then signed by an agent following being spotted. Pike also began acting
at the National Youth Theatre. While her film debut was a large-budget action
film but the film subsequent work was mostly in smaller, independent films such
as Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she received the Best
Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards) as well as
Pride & Prejudice (2005) in the role of one of the Bennet daughters. A
brief venture into Hollywood film followed with the action movie, Doom (2005)
as well as the suspenseful Fracture (2007), but she returned to her
smaller-scale films with outstanding performances in three movies: An Education
(2009) and 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 also played the role
as "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).
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