Rosamund Pike is a Barack Obama girl at heart
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Everyone’s wearing velvet...!
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Grazia Magazine - Found 7 hours ago Both Roisin Murphy and Rosamund Pike looked ultra glam, (and warm!) in velvet at the BFAs last week, Eva Green arrived at the Independent Film... |
Press Notice: Winner of Hennessy Gold Cup 2008 at Newbury Announced ...
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Yahoo! Canada - Found 12 hours ago Newbury Race Course Who attended Lady Gabriella Windsor, Lord Freddie Windsor, Sir Salman Rushdie, Rosamund Pike, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jasmine |
Discs of the year: DVDs Eye Candy
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The Coast Halifax's weekly - Found Nov. 29, 2008 With great performances from Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike and Rade Serbedzija. |
Fugitive Pieces
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IAfrica.com - Found Nov. 28, 2008 Having alienated his wife Alex (Rosamund Pike), he goes back to Greece in the hopes of finding some sort of closure. |
Fugitive Pieces
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Sydney Morning Herald - Found Nov. 26, 2008 ... task that keeps him steeped in the past with all thoughts of the future on hold until he meets Alex (Rosamund Pike), who's everything he isn't. |
Fugitive Pieces
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Brisbane Times - Found Nov. 27, 2008 ... task that keeps him steeped in the past with all thoughts of the future on hold until he meets Alex (Rosamund Pike), who's everything he isn't. |
2008 British Fashion Awards
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Red Carpet Fashion Awards - Found Nov. 26, 2008 ... like this look, as it is very much her own, and she is not trying to be anyone else. Rosamund Pike's velvet blue cropped jacket really... |
Journey from the past
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The Australian - Found Nov. 25, 2008 ... where the grown Jakob (Dillane) is so obsessed with the past that he eventually alienates his sweet live-in girlfriend, Alex (Rosamund Pike). |
Rosamund Pike Biography
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Rosamund Pike (born January 27, 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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Biography
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 MI-6 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.
She has a role in the film adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces, and is recording voicework for a lead role in the forthcoming film Jackboots on Whitehall.
Pike also starred as a successful attorney in the movie Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. The film was her first experience of 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 She will next appear in the Donmar's West End season3.
Personal life
She is a skilled cellist and speaks fluent German and French. She currently lives in the West End. 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 |
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| 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 | |
| Jackboots on Whitehall | Daisy | Edward McHenry | (voice) | |
| An Education | Helen | Lone Scherfig | ||
| 2009 | The Surrogates | Maggie Greer | Jonathan Mostow | |
| Burning Palms | Dedra Davenport | Christopher B. Landon |
Footnotes
- ^ Lee, Michael J., A Radio Free Entertainment Exclusive Interview, http://movies.radiofree.com/interviews/fracture_rosamund_pike.shtml, retrieved on 1 April 2007
- ^ Bamigboye, Baz. Rosamund Pike: A theatre girl at heart, Daily Mail, September 13, 2007. Accessed June 7, 2008.
- ^ http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23541568-details/The+man+with+the+Midas+touch/article.do
- ^ Bamigboye, Baz. Rosamund Pike gets a ring from Mr Wright, Daily Mail, September 7, 2007. Accessed June 7, 2008.
External links
- Rosamund Pike at the Internet Movie Database
- Do You Like Me Now? Rosamund Pike in The Libertine
- The Ethics of Playing the Unethical interview with Rosamund Pike by Peter Fraser, Close-Up Film
- Fansites:
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