Rosamund Pike
In 1979, in
London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a
classically trained violinist's mother, Caroline (Friend), and a opera father
of a singer, Julian Pike. She spent her childhood travelling throughout Europe
as a result of her parents' work. Pike was a student at Bristol's Badminton
School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. Pike was only 23 when
she was cast in "Romeo and Juliet" at the National Youth Theatre. She
was then discovered by an agent and signed. While her film debut was a
high-budget action movie The film work that followed was primarily in smaller,
independent films, such as 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 period in Hollywood, Doom (2005) and Fracture (2006) was her next
film. She returned to film with impressive performances in three smaller films.
She was also in Johnny English Reborn (2011) and in the sci-fi film Wrath of
the Titans (2012). She returned to action films featuring a female lead with
Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).
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