Rosamund Pike

In 1979, in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the only child of a classical violinist mom, Caroline (Friend), and a opera singer father, Julian Pike. The actress spent her youth traveling throughout Europe because of her parents' work. Pike attended Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. As a performer in the National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and was signed by an agent, although she continued her studies in Wadham College, Oxford, where she studied English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second grade with an honors degree.Pike was a part of a variety of UK TV shows, including Wives and Daughters (1999) prior to making her debut in feature films as the stunning beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); at the time the film premiered in 2002, she was only 23 years old. The film that she made her debut was a big-budget action flick. However, her later film work was mostly independent films like Promised Land (2004) and The Libertine (2004). In 2004, she won the Best Supporting Actress prize in The British Independent Film Awards. Pride & Prejudice (2005) included Pike as one of the Bennet girls. A brief foray into Hollywood film was followed by the action flick, Doom (2005), and the thriller Fracture (2007) however, she returned to her smaller-scale films featuring outstanding performance in three films: An Education (2009) and Made in Dagenham (2010), and the lead role alongside 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). Pike returned to action-films as the lead actress alongside Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).