Rosamund Pike

In 1979, in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the sole child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and a singer father, Julian Pike. Due to her parents' jobs, she spent in her early years traveling throughout Europe. Pike attended Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. When she was in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and contracted by an agent, although she continued to study in Wadham College, Oxford, where she took classes in English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper-second class honours degree.Pike appeared in a number of UK TV series which included Wives and Daughters (1999) after which she made an impressive movie debut as the stunning beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); When the film came out, she was only 23. Her debut film was a huge-budget action thriller. However, her subsequent films were mostly independent films such as Promised Land (2004) and The Libertine (2004). The Libertine won her the award for Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards. Pride & Prejudice (2005) was a film that featured Pike as one of the Bennet girls. A brief venture into Hollywood film was followed by the action film, Doom (2005) as well as the thriller Fracture (2007), but she returned to films with smaller budgets featuring outstanding performances in three films: An Education (2009) as well as Made in Dagenham (2010) and the lead role with Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version (2010).As she continued her acting career in England, Pike appeared in the spy spoof Johnny English Reborn (2011) and played the character of "Andromeda" in the sci-fi epic, Wrath of the Titans (2012). She returned to action-oriented films as the female lead alongside Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).