Rosamund Pike

Born in London in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actor. She was the sole child to a classical violinist mom Caroline (Friend) as well as an opera singer father Julian Pike. She spent her early years traveling around Europe due to the work of her parents. Pike was born in Bristol and went to Badminton School. She then began acting in the National Youth Theatre. Pike first appeared in the National Youth Theatre production "Romeo and Juliet". She was signed by an agent after she was noticed. Pike also began acting at the National Youth Theatre. While her film debut was a big-budget action film but the film subsequent work was mostly in smaller independent films, including Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she was awarded the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards), and Pride & Prejudice (2005), as one of the Bennet daughters. Following the action movie, Doom (2006) and the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike made a brief foray into Hollywood film. She then returned to films of a smaller scale with extraordinary performance in three movies: An Education (2008) as well as Dagenham (2010), and Dagenham (2010) as well as the leading role with Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version (2010). In 2012, Pike portrayed the role of Andromeda in the sci-fi epic Wrath of the Titans (2012). With Tom Cruise as her female role in Jack Reacher (2012), she returned to action movies.