Jan 27, 1979

London, England

Rosamund Pike grew up in London, England, the daughter of professional
opera singers. She began acting as a teenager with the National Youth Theatre. She studied English Literature at Oxford University, where she began acting professionally. Her first film role was in A RATHER ENGLISH MARRIAGE starring Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney. Soon after she was cast as Lady Harriet in the BBC’s television miniseries WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, and the following summer she filmed LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE, an ada... ... (read more...) ptation of the Nancy Mitford books.
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Pike’s breakout role was as MI6 agent Miranda Frost in the Bond film DIE
ANOTHER DAY. In 2004, she was cast as a journalist who uncovers a human
trafficking ring in the Gaza Strip in Amos Gitai’s documentary-style thriller,
PROMISED LAND. That same year she appeared as Samantha Grimm in the film adaptation of the computer game DOOM, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Following that, Pike began work on Laurence Dunmore’s THE LIBERTINE alongside Johnny Depp. She won the 2005 British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor / Actress for her portrayal of Elizabeth Malet in that film.
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Her recent role as Jane Bennett in Joe Wright’s film of the classic Jane Austen
novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE garnered her nomination in the Best Supporting
Actress category at the 2006 London Film Critics Circle Awards. Pike was last
seen in FRACTURE, a legal thriller co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan
Gosling, directed by Gregory Hoblit.
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Rosamund’s most notable theatre work has included HITCHCOCK BLONDE written and directed by Terry Johnson, SUMMER AND SMOKE, and most recently, GASLIGHT at the Old Vic Theatre in London.