Rosamund Pike
Born in London, England in 1979, Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the only child of Caroline (Friend) (Friend), the classical violinist's mother as well as Julian Pike, an opera singer father. Because of her parents' jobs, she spent her childhood travelling around Europe. Pike went to Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. Pike was just 23 when she was cast in "Romeo and Juliet" at the National Youth Theatre. She was then discovered by an agent and was signed. Though her debut was a high-budget action movie The film follow-up was mainly in smaller, independent films such as Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards), and Pride & Prejudice (2005) as one of the Bennet daughters. A brief foray into Hollywood film followed with the action flick, Doom (2005) as well as the thriller, Fracture (2007) however, she returned to smaller