28 Facts About Rosamund Pike

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Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike was born on 1979 and is a British actress.

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Rosamund Pike began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet and Gas Light.

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Rosamund Pike won a Primetime Emmy Award for her role in State of the Union and a Golden Globe Award for her performance in I Care a Lot.

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Rosamund Pike was born in 1979 in Hammersmith, London, the only child of opera singers Julian Rosamund Pike and Caroline Friend.

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Rosamund Pike attended Badminton School in Bristol, and while appearing as Juliet 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.

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Rosamund Pike graduated with an Upper Second-class honours degree in 2001, having taken a year off to pursue her acting career, gaining stage experience in David Hare's Skylight, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, and several plays by William Shakespeare.

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Rosamund Pike made appearances on British television shows, including A Rather English Marriage, Wives and Daughters, and the miniseries Love in a Cold Climate.

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Rosamund Pike appeared as Sarah Beaumont in an episode of the series Foyle's War.

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Rosamund Pike was the first Bond girl to have gone to Oxford.

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Rosamund Pike then played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine, co-starring Johnny Depp, which won her the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Rosamund Pike then starred in the film adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces.

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Rosamund Pike starred as a successful attorney in the film Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling.

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Rosamund Pike recorded voicework for a lead role in the film Jackboots on Whitehall and lent her voice to a series of James Bond audio books, narrating The Spy Who Loved Me.

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Also in 2010, Rosamund Pike played the part of Pussy Galore in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Fleming's Goldfinger.

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In 2011, Rosamund Pike played the part of Kate Sumner in the Bond spoof film Johnny English Reborn, playing a psychologist and English's love interest.

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Rosamund Pike replaced Alexa Davalos, who had played the role in Clash of the Titans and had dropped out due to a scheduling conflict.

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Rosamund Pike starred as Helen Rodin, the female lead alongside Tom Cruise in the thriller Jack Reacher, an adaptation of the novel One Shot by author Lee Child.

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Physically and emotionally, Rosamund Pike looks to have immersed herself in this profoundly calculating character, and the results are impressive.

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In 2018, Rosamund Pike was cast as war correspondent Marie Colvin in A Private War, directed by Matthew Heineman and based on "Marie Colvin's Private War", a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner.

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In 2021, Rosamund Pike starred as con artist Marla Grayson in the crime thriller I Care a Lot, directed by J Blakeson and co-starring Peter Dinklage, Eiza Gonzalez and Dianne Wiest.

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Rosamund Pike's performance received universal acclaim; David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter said "Pike brings crisp efficiency and dead-eyed amorality to a legal conservator", and ABC News journalist Peter Travers wrote that "Pike makes a feast of the role".

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Rosamund Pike is committed to lead the thriller Rich Flu, with Pablo Larrain producing the film.

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In 2021, Rosamund Pike narrated the audiobook of Paula Hawkins' novel, A Slow Fire Burning.

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Rosamund Pike voiced an audiobook of The Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series.

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Rosamund Pike then became engaged to the director of that production, Joe Wright; their engagement ended in 2008.

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Since December 2009, Rosamund Pike has been in a relationship with Robie Uniacke, a businessman, and they have two sons, both fluent in Mandarin.

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In 2015, when they visited China to promote Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike mentioned that Uniacke had given her a Chinese name, and, that, being admirers of Chinese culture, they would like the media to use this as her Chinese name rather than using the transliteration of her English name.

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In 2021, Rosamund Pike became an investor in, and the creative director for, the psychedelic-inspired meditation app Lumenate, which purports to guide the user into an altered state of consciousness.