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Pike in 2018
Born	Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike 1979 (age 45–46) London, England
Education	Wadham College, Oxford (BA)
Occupation	Actress, producer
Years active	1998–present
Partner(s)	Robie Uniacke (2009–present)
Children	2
Awards	See full list

Rosamund Pike, born in 1979, is a talented English actress and producer. She has won many awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards.

Rosamund studied English literature at Wadham College, Oxford. Before becoming a film star, she acted in plays like Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre. She became famous for her first big movie role as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002). She also had important roles in historical movies such as Pride & Prejudice (2005), An Education (2009), and Made in Dagenham (2010).

Rosamund appeared in popular films like Johnny English Reborn (2011), Wrath of the Titans (2012), Jack Reacher (2012), and The World's End (2013). She received great praise for her main role as Amy Dunne in the thriller Gone Girl (2014). This role earned her nominations for major awards, including the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Awards. She played Ruth Williams Khama in the true story film A United Kingdom (2016) and Marie Colvin in the war film A Private War (2018). For A Private War, she received another Golden Globe nomination. She won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the dark comedy I Care a Lot (2020). Her supporting role in the comedy Saltburn (2023) also earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

On television, Rosamund won a Primetime Emmy Award for her part in the comedy series State of the Union (2019). In 2021, she started playing Moiraine Damodred in the fantasy series The Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime Video. In 2024, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award as an executive producer for the science fiction series 3 Body Problem.

Early Life and Education

Rosamund Pike was born in 1979 in Hammersmith, London. She is the only child of opera singers Julian Pike and Caroline Friend. She went to Badminton School in Bristol.

While performing as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre, an agent noticed her. This helped her start her acting career. Even though she was turned down by every drama school she applied to, she got a place to study English literature at Wadham College, Oxford. She graduated in 2001 with a good degree. She took a year off during her studies to act in plays by famous writers like David Hare, Arthur Miller, and William Shakespeare.

Career Highlights

Early Roles and Breakthrough

While at Oxford, Rosamund acted in and directed several plays. She also appeared in British TV shows like A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate (2001). She also played Sarah Beaumont in an episode of Foyle's War.

After graduating, she was offered a role as a Bond girl and MI6 agent in Die Another Day. She was the first Bond girl to have studied at Oxford. In 2004, she played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine, starring alongside Johnny Depp. This role won her the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she played Rose in Promised Land and scientist Samantha Grimm in Doom, based on the video game.

Pike at the premiere of Barney's Version in 2010

In 2005, she played Jane, the older sister of Elizabeth (played by Keira Knightley), in Pride & Prejudice. Rosamund also starred in Fugitive Pieces and as a successful lawyer in Fracture, with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. She was a judge for the Costa Book Awards in 2008. Her stage roles include plays in London's West End, like Hitchcock Blonde and Summer and Smoke. In 2009, she played the main character in Madame De Sade.

In 2010, she appeared in the British film Made in Dagenham and the Canadian film Barney's Version. She also voiced characters in the film Jackboots on Whitehall and for James Bond audiobooks, narrating The Spy Who Loved Me. In 2011, she played Kate Sumner, a psychologist and love interest, in the spy comedy Johnny English Reborn.

In 2012, she played Queen Andromeda in the fantasy movie Wrath of the Titans. Although the film received mixed reviews, her performance was seen as a highlight. She also starred as Helen Rodin, the female lead, alongside Tom Cruise in the thriller Jack Reacher. The film was well-received and earned over $218 million. In 2013, she had a supporting role in The World's End.

Gone Girl and Recent Success

In 2014, Rosamund starred in the psychological thriller Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher. She played Amy Dunne, a woman who disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary. David Fincher chose her because he wanted an actress who wasn't widely known in a main role yet, and he found her mysterious. The film was a huge success, making over $356 million worldwide. It premiered at the 52nd New York Film Festival, where both the film and Rosamund's acting received widespread praise.

Pike and actor Ben Affleck at the premiere of Gone Girl in October 2014

Critics praised her performance, calling it "spellbinding" and "powerful." For her role, she received many nominations, including for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

From 2015, she voiced Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in the TV show Thunderbirds Are Go. In 2016, she appeared in the music video for "Voodoo in My Blood" by Massive Attack. In 2017, she played The Woman in the short film The Human Voice, winning Best Actress at the Oxford International Film Festival.

In 2018, Rosamund played war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for this role. In 2019, she was cast as Moiraine in Amazon Prime Video's TV series The Wheel of Time, which started in November 2021. Her other films include the thriller The Informer and the true story film Radioactive, where she played Marie Curie.

In 2021, Rosamund starred as con artist Marla Grayson in the crime thriller I Care a Lot. Her performance was highly praised, with critics calling it "crisp" and "dead-eyed." She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for this role.

In 2021, Rosamund also starred in and produced the historical fiction podcast Edith!. This podcast tells the story of First Lady Edith Wilson taking charge when President Woodrow Wilson was ill. She also narrated audiobooks for A Slow Fire Burning and the first three books in The Wheel of Time series: The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, and The Dragon Reborn. In 2022, it was announced she would star in Saltburn, which was released in 2023.

Rosamund is an executive producer for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem, based on the novel The Three-Body Problem. She has also been filming for Hallow Road and joined the cast of In the Grey and Now You See Me: Now You Don't. In September 2024, it was announced she would star in the Netflix series Thumblite. She was also cast alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in the Netflix film Ladies First. Rosamund will make her debut at the National Theatre in summer 2025 in the play Inter Alia.

Personal Life

Relationships and Family

While at Oxford, Rosamund was in a relationship with Simon Woods for two years. They later played siblings Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley in Pride & Prejudice. She was then engaged to director Joe Wright, but they ended their engagement in 2008.

Since December 2009, Rosamund has been in a relationship with businessman Robie Uniacke. They have two sons who can speak Mandarin. They live in Prague. In 2015, when they visited China, Rosamund shared that Robie had given her a Chinese name, Pei Chunhua (裴淳华). She mentioned that they admire Chinese culture and would like the media to use this name for her.

Activism and Interests

In 2015, Rosamund signed an open letter from the ONE Campaign. This letter asked leaders like Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to focus on women's issues when setting goals for global development.

In 2021, Rosamund became an investor and creative director for Lumenate, a meditation app. Also in 2021, she became the first ambassador for Mines Advisory Group, an organization that helps people affected by landmines.

In a 2023 interview, Rosamund shared her thoughts on the "wellness industry." She believes that people are being tricked into thinking they need to be "well" beyond just being healthy, and she finds this idea "dangerous."

Acting Credits

Film Roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Die Another Day	Miranda Frost
2004	Promised Land	Rose
	The Libertine	Elizabeth Malet
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Jane Bennet
	Doom	Dr. Samantha Grimm
2007	Fracture	Nikki Gardner
	Fugitive Pieces	Alex
2009	Education, AnAn Education	Helen
	Surrogates	Maggie Greer
	Yesterday We Were in America	Narrator	Documentary
2010	Burning Palms	Dedra Davenport
	Jackboots on Whitehall	Daisy (voice)
	Barney's Version	Miriam Grant-Panofsky
	Made in Dagenham	Lisa Hopkins
2011	The Organ Grinder's Monkey	Rochelle	Short film
	Johnny English Reborn	Kate Sumner
	The Big Year	Jessica
2012	Wrath of the Titans	Queen Andromeda
	Jack Reacher	Helen Rodin
2013	The Devil You Know	Zoe Hughes
	The World's End	Sam Chamberlain
2014	A Long Way Down	Penny
	Hector and the Search for Happiness	Clara
	What We Did on Our Holiday	Abi McLeod
	Gone Girl	Amy Elliott Dunne
2015	Return to Sender	Miranda Wells
2016	A United Kingdom	Ruth Williams Khama
2017	The Man with the Iron Heart	Lina Heydrich
	Hostiles	Rosalee Quaid
2018	Beirut	Sandy Crowder
	Entebbe	Brigitte Kuhlmann
	The Human Voice	Woman	Short film
	A Private War	Marie Colvin
2019	The Informer	Erica Wilcox
	Radioactive	Marie Curie
2020	I Care a Lot	Marla Grayson
2021	Evidence of it All	Narrator (voice)	Short film
2023	Saltburn	Elspeth Catton
2025	Hallow Road	Mother
	Now You See Me: Now You Don't	Veronika Vanderberg	Post-production
rowspan="3" 0TBA	In the Grey	rowspan="3" 0TBA	Post-production
Ladies First	Filming
Wife & Dog	Filming

Television Roles

Stage Performances

Music Videos

Podcasts

Video Games

Audiobooks Narrated

• Restless (novel) (2007)
• The Magician's Apprentice (Abridged) (2009)
• The Bolter (2009)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) (Unabridged) (2014)
• The Hours (novel) (Abridged) (2018)
• Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged) (2015)
• Sense and Sensibility (Unabridged) (2018)
• A Slow Fire Burning (2021)
• The Eye of the World (Unabridged) (2021)
• The Great Hunt (Unabridged) (2022)
• Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan (2021)
• The Dragon Reborn (Unabridged) (2023)
• The Shadow Rising (Unabridged) (2024)

Awards and Recognition

See also

In Spanish: Rosamund Pike para niños

• List of British actors
• List of actors with Academy Award nominations
• List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain