Rosamund Pike

Born in 1979 in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the sole child of a classical violinist mom, Caroline (Friend), as well as an opera singer father, Julian Pike. Both parents were extremely hard-working and she traveled extensively across Europe in her early years. Pike was born in Bristol and attended Badminton School. She then began acting in the National Youth Theatre. When she was in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and was signed by an agent. However, she continued her studies at Wadham College, Oxford, where she took classes in 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) prior to making her feature film debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); When the film came out it was released at just 23. Although it was a big-budget action film The film follow-up was mainly in smaller independent films, including Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards), and Pride & Prejudice (2005), as one of the Bennet daughters. After a brief stint in Hollywood, Doom (2005) and Fracture (2006) followed. She returned to film with outstanding performances in three films. She also appeared in Johnny English Reborn (2011) and in the sci-fi film Wrath of the Titans (2012). Pike returned to action films as the lead actress opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).