Rosamund Pike

Biography of Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike was born on January 27, 1979, in Hammersmith, London, UK.

She is the only child of Caroline Friend, an opera singer, and Julian Pike, professor of music and director of opera studies at the Birmingham Conservatory.

She entered the Bristol Badminton School at the age of eleven after winning a scholarship. She learned to play the piano and cello and began acting at the age of sixteen at the National Youth Theatre.

She appeared in the 1998 television film A Rather English Marriage and the following year in the miniseries Wives and Daughters. She also in the pilot of Seven Days, and in an episode of Foyles War (2002).

She worked on the television drama series Love in a Cold Climate (2002) based on novels by English writer Nancy Mitford, also appearing in leading roles in productions at the Oxford Playhouse. In Tokyo she acted in Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew, plays by William Shakespeare.

In late 2001 she was offered a role in the James Bond film Die Another Day to work opposite Pierce Brosnan, becoming the first Bond girl with an Oxford degree, she also appeared in Bond Girls Are Forever, a special programme, and in a tribute to BAFTA's James Bond series.

She had a prominent role in The Libertine, a film released in 2004 starring Johnny Depp and for her work she received the award for Best Supporting Actress at the British Independent Film Awards. She later appeared in The Promised Land (2004) and in the film adaptation of the computer games Doom (2005).

In 2005, she had the role of Jane opposite Keira Knightley, who played the character of Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice.

During 2007, she worked with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling on Fracture, and later on Fugitive Pieces, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. She later released An Education (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010) and Barneys Version (2010). In 2011, she appears in Johnny English Reborn, and in 2012 - in Wrath of the Titans. In that year, she had the leading role in the film Jack Reacher, which was commercially successful and critically acclaimed. She later had a supporting role in The Worlds End (2013).

She worked with Ben Affleck in the thriller Gone Girl (2014) and for her performance received SAG, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. In the same year she presented three other releases,A Long Way Down, Hector and the Search for Happiness and What We Did on Our Holiday.

She continued working on films like Return to Sender (2015), a psychological thriller; A United Kingdom (2016); The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), the western Hostiles (2017), Entebbe (2018), andA Private War (2018).

In 2021, she played Marla Grayson in the thriller I Care a Lot. Her performance received rave reviews and she won her first Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical.

While studying at Oxford, she was in a relationship with actor Simon Woods. She later got engaged to director Joe Wright, but in 2008, the engagement was called off.

She has been related to Robie Uniacke since December 2009. They have two children, Solo (born May 6, 2012) and Atom (December 2, 2014). Robie is the father of four other children from two previous relationships.