Rosamund Pike

Born in London in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actress. She was the sole child of a classically trained violinist mother Caroline (Friend) and an opera singer father Julian Pike. The couple worked hard and she traveled extensively throughout Europe in her early years. Pike went to Badminton School in Bristol, England and then began her acting career at the National Youth Theatre. While appearing in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and was signed by an agent, although she continued her studies in Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second grade honors degree.Pike appeared in a number of UK TV series which included Wives and Daughters (1999), before scoring an auspicious feature film debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); at the time the film premiered at the age of 23, she was just 23. Although her debut film was a high-budget action movie The film following was primarily in smaller independent films, including Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she was awarded the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards), and Pride & Prejudice (2005), as one of the Bennet daughters. Following the action film, Doom (2006) as well as the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike had a brief appearance in Hollywood film. But, she returned to smaller-scale films and starred in some impressive performances in three movies: An Education (2008) and Made in 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). Pike returned to action-films as the lead actress in the film Jack Reacher (2012). Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).