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Full Name:	Rosamund Pike
Birth Name:	Rosamund Pike
Famous As:	Actress
Date of Birth:	January 27, 1979
Place of Birth:	London, England, UK
Height:	5' 9
Nationality:	British
Father:	Julian Pike
Mother:	Caroline Pike
Education:	Graduated from Oxford University's Wadham College, majored in English Literature with Magna Cum Laude
Claim to Fame:	As Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002)

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Rosamund Pike
Pike at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	27 January 1979 (1979-01-27) (age 30) London, England, UK
Years active	1998–

Rosamund Pike (born 27 January 1979) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Personal life 3 Roles 4 References 5 External links

Early life

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Pike is the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers. She attended Badminton School in Bristol before studying English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. While there, she studied under both Bernard O'Donoghue, the Whitbread prize-winning poet, and Robert J.C. Young, the eminent post-colonial theorist. An able student, she achieved a First Class in her first year examinations (known as Moderations) and, after taking a year off to pursue her career, returned to complete her degree in 2001, gaining an Upper Second.

She garnered stage experience in student productions, including David Hare's Skylight, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, and several plays by Shakespeare. While appearing in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre, she was noticed by an agent who helped her embark upon a professional career.

Career

Pike's British television roles appearances include A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate (2001), a mini-series based on the Nancy Mitford novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. She appeared as "Sarah Beaumont" in an episode of the series Foyle's War.

Pike became known to a wider audience in Die Another Day as a rogue MI6 agent originally assigned to aid James Bond. During the film's release she appeared in the special show Bond Girls Are Forever and, shortly thereafter, the BAFTA tribute to the James Bond series.

Pike played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine (2005) co-starring Johnny Depp, which won her the Best Supporting Actress award at the British Independent Film Awards. In the same year, she portrayed Rose in The Promised Land (a film about Israel), as well as starring as scientist Samantha Grimm in the cinematic adaptation of the computer game Doom. And she appeared as Jane, the elder sister of Elizabeth (played by Keira Knightley), in Pride & Prejudice.

Pike has a role in the film adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces, and also starred as a successful attorney in the movie Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. It was her first experience shooting a movie in Los Angeles.¹

Her stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson (in a role requiring her to appear nude on stage) and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gaslight at London's Old Vic Theatre. Pike has said that she would be happy to do at least one play every year.² In 2009 she played the title character in Madame De Sade during the Donmar's West End season.³

Pike is recording voicework for a lead role in the forthcoming film Jackboots on Whitehall and in 2009 will work on the British film We Want Sex.

Personal life

She is a skilled cellist and speaks fluent German and French. She currently lives in the West End (London). While at Oxford she started a relationship with Simon Woods. She was engaged in 2007 to director Joe Wright, but they called off the wedding they had been planning to hold in 2008.⁴

Roles

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1998	A Rather English Marriage	Celia	Paul Seed	(TV)
1999	Wives and Daughters	Lady Harriet Cumnor	Nicholas Renton	(miniseries)
2000	Trial & Retribution IV	Lucy	Michael Whyte	(TV)
2001	Love in a Cold Climate	Fanny	Tom Hooper	(miniseries)
2002	Foyle's War: “The German Woman”	Sarah Beaumont	Jeremy Silberston	(TV episode)
	Die Another Day	Miranda Frost	Lee Tamahori
	Bond Girls Are Forever	Herself		(TV documentary)
	Hitchcock Blonde	The Blonde		(play)
2004	Promised Land	Rose	Amos Gitai
	The Libertine	Elizabeth Malet	Laurence Dunmore
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Jane Bennet	Joe Wright
	Doom	Samantha Grimm	Andrzej Bartkowiak
2006	Summer and Smoke	Alma Winemiller		(play)
2007	Fracture	Nikki Gardner	Gregory Hoblit
	Fugitive Pieces	Alex	Jeremy Podeswa
2008	Devil You Know	Zoe Hughes	James Oakley
2009	An Education	Helen	Lone Scherfig
	Jackboots on Whitehall	Daisy	Edward McHenry	(voice)
	Surrogates	Maggie Greer	Jonathan Mostow
	Burning Palms	Dedra Davenport	Christopher B. Landon

References

External links

• Rosamund Pike at the Internet Movie Database
• Do You Like Me Now? Rosamund Pike in The Libertine
• The Ethics of Playing the Unethical interview with Rosamund Pike by Peter Fraser, Close-Up Film
• Fansites:
  • Rosamund Pike Online
  • RosamundPikeWeb.com
  • RosamundPike.co.uk
  • Rosamund Pike Fansite by T.C. Candler