Rosamund Pike
Born in London in 1979, Rosamund Elizabeth Pike is an actress. She was the sole child of a classically trained violinist mother Caroline (Friend) and an opera singer father Julian Pike. The couple worked hard and she travelled extensively throughout Europe in her early years. Pike was a student at the Badminton School in Bristol, England and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. When she was in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and signed by an agent, although she continued her studies at Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper-second class honours degree.Pike was a part of a variety of UK TV series which included Wives and Daughters (1999) after which she made an impressive movie debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); When the film came out at the age of 23, she was just 23. The film she made her debut in...