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Rosamund Pike: I havent had a nose job

Now Magazine - Found 10 hours ago
July 2009 Rosamund Pike has rubbished speculation shes had cosmetic surgery.

Posted on July 4, 2009, 2:42 am

Actress Rosamund Pike talks to Lynn Barber about turning 30, ...

Observer - Found May. 24, 2009
Actress Rosamund Pike invites Lynn Barber round for afternoon tea and a chat - about on-stage nudity, turning 30 and the heartache of being jilted by ...

Posted on May 24, 2009, 1:10 pm

'Hurt' Rosamund Pike Still Baffled By Joe Wright Dump

Post Chronicle - Found May. 27, 2009
British actress Rosamund Pike is baffled by her split from Joe Wright - insisting she still has no idea why the Atonement director called off their

Posted on May 27, 2009, 5:55 am

Rosamund Pike Baffled By Joe Wright Split

FemaleFirst.co.uk - Found May. 26, 2009
Rosamund Pike is baffled by her split from Joe Wright - insisting she still has no idea why the Atonement director called off their wedding.

Posted on May 26, 2009, 1:00 pm

Rosamund Pike's Weighty Roles

FemaleFirst.co.uk - Found May. 26, 2009
Rosamund Pike puts on weight when she wins naked roles.

Posted on May 26, 2009, 12:59 pm

Bond girl Rosamund Pike talks about turning 30

MI6 - Found May. 24, 2009
Actress Rosamund Pike invites Lynn Barber of The Guardian.

Posted on May 24, 2009, 7:57 am

Rosamund Pike - `I have James Bond to thank for my whole career`

MI6 - Found Apr. 19, 2009
... history, Pike was England's latest rose, demure and detached with a cut-glass accent and an icy reputation. This was not the real Rosamund Pike...

Posted on April 19, 2009, 8:03 am

Exclusive Surrogates One-Sheet!

Coming Soon! - Found Jul. 2, 2009
September 25. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, the sci-fi thriller stars Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris...
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Posted on July 2, 2009, 3:07 am

Why the BBC dominates TV drama

The Independent - Found Jun. 25, 2009
Also stars Dominic Cooper and Rosamund Pike.

Posted on June 25, 2009, 5:29 am

Film Review - Fugitive Pieces

Sunday Tribune Ireland - Found Jun. 22, 2009
... but still haunted by memories of his family's slaughter in the Holocaust, wrecking his marriage to the free-spirited Alex (Rosamund Pike).

Posted on June 22, 2009, 12:15 pm

Rosamund Pike Biography

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Rosamund Pike

Pike at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born 27 January 1979 (1979-01-27) (age 30)
London, England, UK
Years active 1998

Rosamund Pike (born 27 January 1979) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.

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Early life

Pike is the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers. She attended Badminton School in Bristol before studying English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. While there, she studied under both Bernard O'Donoghue, the Whitbread prize-winning poet, and Robert J.C. Young, the eminent post-colonial theorist. An able student, she achieved a First Class in her first year examinations (known as Moderations) and, after taking a year off to pursue her career, returned to complete her degree in 2001, gaining an Upper Second.

She garnered stage experience in student productions, including David Hare's Skylight, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, and several plays by Shakespeare. While appearing in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre, she was noticed by an agent who helped her embark upon a professional career.

Career

Pike's British television roles appearances include A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate (2001), a mini-series based on the Nancy Mitford novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. She appeared as "Sarah Beaumont" in an episode of the series Foyle's War.

Pike became known to a wider audience in Die Another Day as a rogue MI6 agent originally assigned to aid James Bond. During the film's release she appeared in the special show Bond Girls Are Forever and, shortly thereafter, the BAFTA tribute to the James Bond series.

Pike played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine (2005) co-starring Johnny Depp, which won her the Best Supporting Actress award at the British Independent Film Awards. In the same year, she portrayed Rose in The Promised Land (a film about Israel), as well as starring as scientist Samantha Grimm in the cinematic adaptation of the computer game Doom. And she appeared as Jane, the elder sister of Elizabeth (played by Keira Knightley), in Pride & Prejudice.

Pike has a role in the film adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces, and also starred as a successful attorney in the movie Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. It was her first experience shooting a movie in Los Angeles.1

Her stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson (in a role requiring her to appear nude on stage) and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gaslight at London's Old Vic Theatre. Pike has said that she would be happy to do at least one play every year.2 In 2009 she played the title character in Madame De Sade during the Donmar's West End season.3

Pike is recording voicework for a lead role in the forthcoming film Jackboots on Whitehall and in 2009 will work on the British film We Want Sex.

Personal life

She is a skilled cellist and speaks fluent German and French. She currently lives in the West End (London). While at Oxford she started a relationship with Simon Woods. She was engaged in 2007 to director Joe Wright, but they called off the wedding they had been planning to hold in 2008.4

Roles

Year Title Role Director Notes
1998 A Rather English Marriage Celia Paul Seed (TV)
1999 Wives and Daughters Lady Harriet Cumnor Nicholas Renton (miniseries)
2000 Trial & Retribution IV Lucy Michael Whyte (TV)
2001 Love in a Cold Climate Fanny Tom Hooper (miniseries)
2002 Foyle's War: “The German Woman Sarah Beaumont Jeremy Silberston (TV episode)
Die Another Day Miranda Frost Lee Tamahori
Bond Girls Are Forever Herself (TV documentary)
Hitchcock Blonde The Blonde (play)
2004 Promised Land Rose Amos Gitai
The Libertine Elizabeth Malet Laurence Dunmore
2005 Pride & Prejudice Jane Bennet Joe Wright
Doom Samantha Grimm Andrzej Bartkowiak
2006 Summer and Smoke Alma Winemiller (play)
2007 Fracture Nikki Gardner Gregory Hoblit
Fugitive Pieces Alex Jeremy Podeswa
2008 Devil You Know Zoe Hughes James Oakley
2009 An Education Helen Lone Scherfig
Jackboots on Whitehall Daisy Edward McHenry (voice)
Surrogates Maggie Greer Jonathan Mostow
Burning Palms Dedra Davenport Christopher B. Landon

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