Rosamund Pike

At 45 years old, Rosamund Pike has this physical status:

Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike (born 27 January 1979) is an English actress who began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet and Skylight.

After her screen debut in the television film A Rather English Marriage (1998) and television roles in Wives and Daughters (1999) and Love in a Cold Climate (2001), she received international recognition for her film debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002), for which she received the Empire Award for Best Newcomer.

Following her breakthrough, she won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Libertine (2004) and portrayed Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). Pike had film appearances in the sci-fi film Doom (2005), the crime-mystery thriller film Fracture (2007), the drama film Fugitive Pieces (2007), the coming-of-age drama An Education (2009), for which she was nominated for the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year, and sci-fi comedy The World's End (2013).

She also received British Independent Film Award nominations for An Education and Made in Dagenham (2010), and was nominated for a Genie Award for Barney's Version (2010).

Her other films include the spy action comedy Johnny English Reborn (2011), the epic action-adventure fantasy Wrath of the Titans (2012), and the action thriller Jack Reacher (2012). In 2014, her performance in the psychological thriller Gone Girl was met with widespread critical acclaim, winning the Saturn Award for Best Actress and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Pike received further acclaim for her starring role as Ruth Williams Khama in the biographical drama A United Kingdom (2016) and for portraying the journalist Marie Colvin in the biographical war drama A Private War (2018), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

Pike won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series in 2019 for her role in State of the Union.

Early life and education

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

She 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.

After being turned down by every stage school to which she applied, she gained a place to read English literature at Wadham College, Oxford. She 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.

Personal life

While at Oxford, Pike was in a relationship with Simon Woods which lasted two years. They later played the lovers Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley in Pride & Prejudice. She was then engaged to the director of that production, Joe Wright, which ended in 2008.

Since December 2009, Pike has been in a relationship with Robie Uniacke, a businessman and mathematical researcher, and they have two sons, both fluent in Mandarin. In 2015, when they visited China to promote Gone Girl, Pike mentioned that Uniacke had given her a Chinese name 裴淳华 (traditional Chinese: 裴淳華, pinyin: Péi Chúnhuá, IPA: [pʰěɪ ʈʂʰwə̌n.xwǎ]), and, being admirers of Chinese culture, they requested the media use this as her Chinese name rather than the transliteration of her English name.

In 2015, Pike signed an open letter for which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they would serve as the head of the Group of Seven (G7) and the African Union (AU), respectively, which would start to set the priorities in development funding before a main United Nations (UN) summit in September 2015, supposed to establish new development goals for the generation.

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

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Acting career

Pike appeared and directed several plays, including one by Simon Chesterman, who was then a graduate student, while she was still at Oxford. She appeared on British television shows including A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate (2001). In an episode of Foyle's War, she appeared as Sarah Beaumont.

She was offered a job as a Bond girl and MI6 agent assisting James Bond in Die Another Day and later in the BAFTA tribute to the James Bond film series shortly after graduation. She was the first Bond teen to have attended Oxford. Pike later appeared Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine (2004), co-starring Johnny Depp, which earned her the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Samantha Grimm, a scientist who starred in the computer game series Doom, starred Rose in Promised Land, a film about Israel, and starred as scientist Samantha Grimm in the same year.

In Pride & Prejudice, Jane, Elizabeth's elder sister (played by Keira Knightley) appeared in 2005. Pike appeared in Anne Michaels' film adaptation of her book Fugitive Pieces. In the film Fracture, she appeared as a good attorney alongside Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. In 2008, Pike was a judge at the Costa Book Awards.

Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gas Light at London's Old Vic Theatre are among her stage credits. During Madame De Sade's West End season in 2009, she played the title character.

She appeared in Made in Dagenham, the United Kingdom's Version, in which she plays Miriam, in 2010. She appeared in a Hedda Gabler production on the UK tour last year.

Pike did voicework for a lead role in the film Jackboots on Whitehall (2010) and lent her voice to a series of James Bond audio books, narrating The Spy Who Loved Me. Pike appeared in the BBC Radio 4 version of Fleming's Goldfinger in 2010. Pike appeared in the Bond spoof film Johnny English Reborn in 2011, portraying a psychologist and English's love interest. The film is a sequel to the 2003 film Johnny English and it's a box office hit, grossing more than $160 million.

In 2012, she appeared in Queen Andromeda of the Titans, a fantasy epic. Alexa Davalos, who had been active in Clash of the Titans but had to cancel due to a scheduling conflict, was fired. She had to drop out of consideration for a Man of Steel role because she was cast in the Wrath of the Titans. Despite the fact that critics weren't raving about the film, it was nonetheless a success, and critics said she was one of the film's highlights. Helen Rodin was the female lead in the thriller Jack Reacher, an adaptation of author Lee Child's novel One Shot. The film attracted a strong critical reception and grossed over $218 million.

Pike appeared in the David Fincher-directed thriller Gone Girl (2014), a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's book of the same name, after a supporting role in The World's End (2013). Pike was portrayed as Amy Dunne, a woman who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, opposite Ben Affleck. Pike was his first choice for the role because he wanted someone who wasn't well-known, Pike had not appeared in any leading role before the film's premiere, and because she couldn't read her correctly, according to Fincher, Pike was his first choice for the role because he didn't know her. The film was a box office success, grossing over $356 million in worldwide ticket sales. Critics also praised the film and Pike's performances.

Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair said that the film is "Smartly shot, detailed, and performed" and that Pike's portrayal is "a star-makingly good job," she said, "pellbinding in its operatic mixture of tones and temperatures." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said that she "is influential and commanding... Pike seems to have embedded herself in this deeply researched character, and the results are impressive." She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, a female actress in the reimagining of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds Are Go produced by ITV in collaboration with Weta Workshop from 2015. Isabelle Adjani appeared in Massive Attack's music video for "Voodoo in My Blood" in February 2016, directly inspired by the subway scene in the film Possession (1981) directed by Andrzej uawski.

She appeared in The Woman in Patrick Kennedy's short film The Human Voice, which was based on Jean Cocteau's play La voix humaine, for which she received Best Actress at the Oxford International Film Festival in 2017.

In 2018, Pike was featured 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. Dramatic actress Jennifer Lopez was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.

Moiraine was cast in Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of Robert Jordan's fantasy epic The Wheel of Time, which was first published in November 2021. She has appeared in the thriller The Informer and the biographical Radioactive; in the latter, she played Marie Curie.

Pike starred Marla Grayson in the crime drama I Care a Lot, directed by J Blakeson and co-starring Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, and Dianne Wiest. Her appearance was lauded around the world; 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 said, "Pike makes a feast of the role." She received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical at the 78th Golden Globe Awards.

Pike appeared in and executive produced the eight episode historical fiction podcast Edith, which was released in 2021. Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke during his tenure as a result of his illness, and First Lady Edith Wilson took the reins of power as he recovered. Clark Gregg plays President Wilson, and Esther Povitsky portrays Trudy Grayson, the First Lady's closest friend.

Pike will appear in Emerald Fennell's second feature film, which is rumored to be titled Saltburn, in 2022. She has pledged to lead Rich Flu, with Pablo Larran directing the film.

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