Rosamund Pike
In 1979, in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike was the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and an opera father of a singer, Julian Pike. Her childhood was spent traveling across Europe because of the work of her parents. Pike was a student at Bristol's Badminton School and started acting at the National Youth Theatre. Pike was only 23 when she appeared in "Romeo and Juliet" at the National Youth Theatre. She was then noticed by an agent and signed. Although it was a big-budget action film however, the following was primarily in smaller, independent films, including 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. Following the action movie, Doom (2006) and the suspense film Fracture (2007), Pike had a brief appearance in Hollywood film. But, she returned to films of a sma...