Rosamund Pike

In 1979, in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and a opera singer father, Julian Pike. Because of their work, she spent her childhood touring around Europe. Pike was a student at the Badminton School in Bristol, England and then began her acting career at the National Youth Theatre. In a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and was signed by an agent. However, she continued to study in Wadham College, Oxford, where she studied English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second-class honors degree.Pike played in a range of UK television series that included Wives and Daughters (1999) and then made her feature film debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); when the film debuted, she was only 23. While her debut film was a huge-budget action movie, her film involvement 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 debut film. Following the action film, Doom (2006) as well as the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike was briefly a part of Hollywood film. In the end, she returned to smaller film with exceptional performances in three movies: An Education (2008), Dagenham (2010), and Dagenham (2010) and the lead role alongside 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). With Tom Cruise as her female lead in Jack Reacher (2012), she made a return to action-movies.