Rosamund Pike

Born in London, England in 1979, Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the only child of Caroline (Friend) Pike, mother of a classical violinist, as well as Julian Pike, an opera father of a singer. She spent her early years traveling throughout Europe because of the work of her parents. Pike studied at Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. In a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first noticed and accepted by an agent. However, she continued to study in Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second grade honors degree.Pike has appeared in a variety of UK television shows that 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. Although it was a big-budget action film but 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. Following the action movie, Doom (2006) and the action thriller Fracture (2007), Pike attempted a brief stint in Hollywood film. She then returned to smaller films with remarkable performance in three films: An Education (2008), Dagenham (2010), and Dagenham (2010) and the lead role with 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). With Tom Cruise as her female leading character in Jack Reacher (2012), she made a return to action-movies.