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Rosamund Pike and 50 things you missed about the English actress.
1. Rosamund Pike born Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike on 27 January 1979 is an English actress.
2. Rosamund Pike's first screen credit was in 1998 for the television film A Rather English Marriage.
3. Rosamund Pike came to attention when she was cast at age 21 as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002).
4. Rosamund Pike won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for The Libertine.
5. Rosamund Pike received BIFA nominations for her performances as Helen in An Education (2009), and Lisa in Made in Dagenham (2010).
6. Rosamund Pike's other film appearances include Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Fracture (2007), Barney's Version (2010), and Gone Girl (2014).
7. Rosamund Pike's performance as Amy Elliott-Dunne in Gone Girl was met with critical acclaim, receiving numerous awards and nominations, including for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
8. On television, Pike played the role of Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love in 2011.
9. On stage she has performed in the West End in several productions, including Hitchcock Blonde in 2003, Summer and Smoke in 2006, Gas Light in 2007, and Hedda Gabler in 2010.
10. Rosamund Pike was born in Hammersmith, London.
11. Rosamund Pike is the only child of opera singers Caroline (née Friend) and Julian Pike.
12. Rosamund Pike's father is currently a professor of music and head of Operatic Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
13. Rosamund Pike's family travelled across Europe until she was seven, following wherever her parents' performing careers took them.
14. Rosamund Pike won a scholarship to Badminton School in Bristol.
15. While appearing as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre, was noticed by an agent who helped her embark upon a professional career.
16. Pike was turned down by every stage school she applied to.
17. After being turned down by every stage school she applied to, she gained a place to read English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford, from which she graduated.
18. Rosamund Pike took a year off to pursue her acting career, garnering stage experience in David Hare's Skylight, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, and several plays by Shakespeare.
19. Rosamund Pike achieved an Upper Second class degree in 2001.
20. While she was still at Oxford, Pike acted in and directed various plays, including one by Simon Chesterman who was then a graduate student.
21. Rosamund Pike made appearances on British television shows, including A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate (2001), a miniseries based on Nancy Mitford's novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.
22. Rosamund Pike appeared as Sarah Beaumont in an episode of the series Foyle's War.
23. After graduating, she considered working at Waterstone's bookshop due to a lack of acting opportunities.
24. Rosamund Pike was offered a role as a Bond girl and MI6 agent assigned to aid James Bond in Die Another Day.
25. Rosamund Pike also appeared in the special show Bond Girls Are Forever and, shortly afterwards, the BAFTA tribute to the James Bond series.
26. Rosamund Pike played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine (2004), co-starring Johnny Depp, which won her the Best Supporting Actress award at the British Independent Film Awards.
27. Rosamund Pike portrayed Rose in The Promised Land, a film about Israel, and starred as scientist Samantha Grimm in the cinematic adaptation of the computer game series Doom.
28. In 2005, she appeared as Jane, the elder sister of Elizabeth (played by Keira Knightley), in Pride & Prejudice.
29. Rosamund Pike starred in the film adaptation of Anne Michaels's novel Fugitive Pieces.
30. She also starred as a successful attorney in the film Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling.
31. In 2009, she played the title character in Madame De Sade during the Donmar's West End season.
32. Rosamund Pike has recorded voicework for a lead role in the film Jackboots on Whitehall
33. Pike also lent her voice to a new series of James Bond audio-books, narrating The Spy Who Loved Me.
34. In 2012, she played the role of Queen Andromeda in the fantasy epic Wrath of the Titans. She replaced Alexa Davalos, who had played the role in Clash of the Titans and had dropped out due to a scheduling conflict.
35. Taking the role in Wrath of the Titans meant she had to drop out of consideration for a role in the forthcoming Superman film.
36. Although Wrath of the Titans in which she starred was not well received by critics, it grossed over $300 million and critics considered her performance to be one of the film's highlights.
37. She also 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. The film opened to positive critical reception and had grossed over $218 million.
38. After a supporting role in the critically acclaimed The World's End (2013), Pike was seen in the David Fincher-directed thriller Gone Girl (2014), a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name.
39. Featuring opposite Ben Affleck, Pike was cast as Amy Dunne, a woman who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary.
40. According to Fincher, he cast Pike in the role as he wanted someone who was not widely known, Pike having not appeared in any major leading role prior to the film's commencement. The film emerged as a box office hit, earning over $356 million in global ticket sales.
41. The movie and Pike's performance both earned widespread acclaim from critics.
42. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote that the film is "Smartly shot, detailed ... and performed" and called Pike's portrayal "a star-makingly good performance, spellbinding in its operatic mix of tones and temperatures."
43. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter reviewed that she "is powerful and commanding ... Physically and emotionally, Pike looks to have immersed herself in this profoundly calculating character, and the results are impressive."
44. Rosamund Pike received numerous awards and nominations, including for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
45. In 2007, Pike was engaged to film director Joe Wright.
46. However Joe Wright called off the wedding in 2008.
47. Since December 2009, she has been in a relationship with Robie Uniacke.
48. Robie Uniacke who she dates is a mathematical researcher.
49. They have two sons, Solo (born 6 May 2012) and Atom (born 2 December 2014).
50. In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.
Source: Wikipedia.org
