Celebrity Biographies
Rosamund pike
He has drawn attention in some supporting role. It is clear that he does not lack talent to waste, but the opportunities to show it are beginning to arrive little by little. Rosamund Pike is ready to climb the ranks, playing whatever character it takes, whether it’s a marriageable young woman in a period drama, a conformist lover, or a James Bond villain.
Born on January 27, 1979 in the English capital, Rosamund Pike is the only daughter of Julian and Caroline Pike, both dedicated to music, as he is an opera singer and she is a violinist. From a very young age, Rosamund learned to play the cello. Besides, she was a good student at school. She attended Bristol’s Badminton School, before studying English literature at Wadham College (Oxford). She had not yet graduated when she decided to try her luck in the world of acting.
It did not go badly for her as an actress from the first moment, because after a brief role in the television drama A Rather English Marriage , along with Albert Finney , she obtained a supporting role in the series Wives and Daughters .
She made her film debut as a James Bond villain, in Die Another Day , with Pierce Brosnan . She played Miranda Frost, theoretically the protagonist’s partner in MI6, known because she refuses to associate with other agents. But in reality, she was an undercover agent for Colonel Moon.
Following The Rake and Promised Land , Rosamund Pike became one of the Bennet sisters, in Pride and Prejudice . Although she had been the girlfriend of one of her co-stars, actor Simon Woods (Mr. Bingley), during filming she fell in love with Joe Wright , the director. The two became engaged and planned to marry in 2008, but once the invitations were sent, Wright backed out and they annulled the link.
Despite the slip of Doom , a failed film version of a well-known video game, she next played a supporting character in Fracture , a thriller with Anthony Hopkins , and had a prominent role in The Surrogates , where she played Maggie, the wife of the FBI agent. played by Bruce Willis .
Rosamund Pike did a great job as a secondary in the film An Education , as the frivolous Helen, lover of a rich man who indulges her whims, which seems to make her happy enough.
Rosamund Pike’s career has only just begun. He has the comedy-drama Burning Palms pending , opposite Zoe Saldana and Barney’s version , a drama in which he stars with Dustin Hoffman and Paul Giamatti . Everything indicates that there will be much more talk about Rosamund Pike shortly.