Rosamund Pike Biography

Rosamund Pike born Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike on 27 January 1979, in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom, is an English actress. She began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet and Skylight.

Rosamund Pike Age

She was born on 27th January 1979. She is 39 years old as of 2018.

Rosamund Pike Height

She is 1.74 metres tall.

Rosamund Pike Family

Pike was born in London,to opera singers Caroline and Julian Pike. Her father Julian, is a professor of music and head of operatic studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire. She is an only child. She travelled across Europe with her family until she was seven, following wherever her parents’ performing careers took them.

Rosamund Pike Husband

Pike has been in a long-term relationship with Robie Uniacke, a businessman and mathematical researcher,since December 2009 and they have two sons.

Rosamund Pike Children

She has two sons; Solo Uniacke and Atom Uniacke.

Rosamund Pike Career

She began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet and Skylight. Later 2001, she was offered a role in a James Bond film, ‘Die Another Day’ as a ‘Bond’ girl alongside Pierce Brosnan.She was the first ‘Bond’ girl to have an Oxford degree, she also appeared in ‘Bond Girls Are Forever’, a special show, and in a tribute to the ‘James Bond’ series by ‘BAFTA’.

Following the huge release of ‘Die Another Day’ in 2003, that brought her international fame, she again took to the stage to act in a play, ‘Hitchcock Blonde’. Her performance was praised but somewhat controversial as in one scene; she appeared in nothing else but high-heeled shoes. She played an important role in ‘The Libertine’ that starred Johnny Depp, in 2004.

She received critical acclaim and the award for the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ at the’ British Independent Film Awards’ for her performance in the film. She appeared in two more films, ‘The Promised Land’, and the cinematic adaptation of the computer game series ‘Doom’ in the same year.

She played the role of ‘Jane’ in 2005, alongside Keira Knightley who played the character of ‘Elizabeth’ in ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
She appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling in ‘Fracture’, in 2007. She was also cast in the movie ‘Fugitive Pieces’, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Anne Michaels that was the inaugural film at the ‘Toronto Film Festival’.

She returned with some truly exceptional performances in smaller films like ‘An Education’ (2009), ‘Made in Dagenham’ (2010), and in ‘Barney’s Version’ (2010) opposite Paul Giamatti, after her brief stint in Hollywood.

Her association with ‘James Bond’ continued with her narrating ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ for a new series of ‘James Bond’ audiobooks. She also lent her voice to the character of ‘Pussy Galore’ in an adaptation of ‘Goldfinger’ by ‘BBC Radio 4’ in 2010. She acted in ‘Johnny English Reborn’, a ‘James Bond’ spoof, which proved to be a major commercial success. She appeared in the fantasy epic ‘Wrath of the Titans’ in 2012. She also played the lead role opposite Tom Cruise in the movie ‘Jack Reacher’, That same year. In her next film ‘The World’s End’ (2013) her performance in a supporting role,received critical acclaim.

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She had her breakthrough when she appeared opposite Ben Affleck in the 2014 thriller ‘Gone Girl’ based on the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn. Her performance on the role of a woman who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary earned accolades from the critics and ‘SAG’, ’BAFTA’, ‘Golden Globe’, and ‘Academy Award’ nominations. The film became a major box office hit. She had three other releases in 2014,‘A Long Way Down’, ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’, and ‘What We Did on Our Holiday’.

Since 2015, she has provided the voice of ‘Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward’ in the British animated science fiction television show ‘Thunderbirds Are Go’, a remake of the 1960s television series ‘Thunderbirds’.  She was featured in ‘Voodoo in My Blood’, a music video by ‘Massive Attack’ in February 2016 that was inspired by the subway scene in the 1981 movie ‘Possession’.

Her most recent films include ‘Return to Sender’ of 2015 , a psychological thriller; ‘A United Kingdom’ of 2016, a British biographical romantic drama film; ‘The Man with the Iron Heart’ of 2017, biographical war drama-thriller; and the 2017 ‘Hostiles’ , an American Western.

2018 seems to be a busy year for Pike; two films have been released already , ‘Seven Days in Entebbe’ based on the 1976 dramatic rescue mission of the ‘Air France’ flight and ‘Beirut’, an espionage thriller film set in the 1982 Lebanese Civil War. Her upcoming films include ‘A Private War’, a biographical drama in which, Rosamund plays the character of journalist Marie Colvin.‘Three Seconds’, a British action crime thriller film adapted from the book of the same name by Roslund/Hellström will be released in  2019  .

Rosamund Pike Movies

1. Die Another Day
2. Promised Land
3. The Libertine
4. Pride & Prejudice
5. Doom
6. Fracture
7. Fugitive Pieces
8. An Education
9. Surrogates
10. Yesterday We Were in America
11. Burning Palms
12. Jackboots on Whitehall
13. Barney’s Version
14. Made in Dagenham
15. The Organ Grinder’s Monkey
16. Johnny English Reborn
17. The Big Year
18. Wrath of the Titans
19. Jack Reacher
20. The Devil You Know
21. The World’s End
22. A Long Way Down
23. Hector and the Search for Happiness
24. What We Did on Our Holiday
25. Gone Girl
26. Return to Sender
27. A United Kingdom
28. The Man with the Iron Heart
29. Hostiles
30. Beirut
31. Entebbe
32. A Private War
33. Three Seconds
34. Radioactive

Rosamund Pike Net Worth

She has a net worth of $9 million dollars.

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Rosamund Pike: Male Stars Should “Swallow Their Pride,” Take Supporting Roles

Though she had been working steadily since the turn of the millennium, for many people Rosamund Pike came out of nowhere and startled audiences with her shocking turn as the murderous Amy Dunne in 2014’s Gone Girl. That performance was a masterclass in sociopathy, with Pike’s composed and cool exterior masking the monster beneath the surface. In her latest movie Hostiles, there’s something else festering underneath the steel façade of Pike’s character—the frontierswoman Rosalie Quaid—and that is grief.

Hostiles, the new Western from Scott Cooper starring Christian Bale, opens with a horrific Comanche raid, in which the perpetrators slaughter an innocent family, and leaves Pike’s character with the unimaginable chore of burying her own children. Those scenes are perhaps the most wrenching in a movie that’s filled with them. When she is met by Bale’s soldier John Blocker, Rosalie is a shell of her former self, and Pike spends the rest of the film meticulously re-establishing her humanity. When I sat down with her just before the new year at Manhattan’s Crosby Street Hotel, Pike was pensive and careful when discussing such a heavy film, and was willing to look back and take stock of what a once-in-a-lifetime gig like Gone Girl meant for her career. Pike was also eager to talk about the seismic shift happening in Hollywood, and offered her own suggestion on what else can be done to even the gendered playing field.

BEN BARNA: Did you have any expectations when you signed on to this project?

ROSAMUND PIKE: I thought it would be a very profound, human experience, and that it’s probably going to be something that will change me, and you make yourself vulnerable to those things in this line of work. You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions—I know I do—is through recognizing experiences on screen, or in novels, or in paintings.

BARNA: Gone Girl was a movie that perfectly straddled the line between art and entertainment.

PIKE: That was amazing. It was an amazing high. Yes it was saying something important about this kind of narcissism epidemic of modern culture and romance, but it was also such a commercial success. I was giddy making it, because it’s something adults want to see in the theater, and of course I’m chasing that again, because it was the best feeling in the world.

BARNA: Was there a scene in Hostiles that you dreaded shooting beforehand?

PIKE: The opening section of the film was pretty tough. I knew the opening fragments of the ambush and massacre would be what it would be because it’s visceral and you’re just responding, but when the grief really settles in, I knew that would be the most emotionally intense. But I was lucky enough to have a group of actors who could take anything I threw at them, so when it came to the burial scene, I felt like I could just live the truth of it. They had my back completely.

BARNA: Was there a macho vibe on set? Scott’s movies tend to have a masculine quality to them.

PIKE: I guess so, but that tends to be the experience on any set. As a woman you’re often outnumbered. That’s just the way things go. But those pioneer women had to be pretty tough. Going West—there’s nothing romantic about that life.

BARNA: How did Gone Girl change your career? Did it give you more respect within the industry?

PIKE: You tell me!

BARNA: It seems that way.

PIKE: Yeah, probably David Fincher choosing you, suddenly everybody wakes up to something, because if you’re okay for him, then you’re certainly okay for other people. The interesting thing for me, when I was talking to him, I suddenly saw that he was very, very serious about me, and I thought, well this is so interesting, because I know I’ve got this in me, but how the hell do you know? Because in our business, if you haven’t had the chance to show something it’s very hard to convey to someone that you’ve got it in you. And he had this sort of uncanny ability to see beyond what other people had missed.

BARNA: So did Scott just straight-up offer you the role?

PIKE: Yeah, but he had seen this Massive Attack video that I did, and that’s what really inspired him to cast me, because he wanted this feral ability, this release of unadulterated energy. And I’ve kind of always been that person, but you know, you’re an actress, you’re for hire, you take roles, you’re making a living, you’re doing what’s required of you. The liberating thing is I’ve always been a much more extreme person than I’ve been perceived as, but I’m sure that’s true for countless people. Now suddenly the roles that I’m playing are becoming bolder and bigger and more expansive, and the physicality is becoming more extreme, and it’s really fun.

BARNA: I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask you about the sea change happening in your industry. What has it been like watching it unfold?

PIKE: The thing that’s been playing in my mind a lot is, okay, there’s been a lot of support for all the women who’ve spoken up, and a lot of men have looked at their own behavior. But the next thing that has to happen is that male actors have to be willing to play supporting roles to lead women. That has to change, because at the moment, I realized that many men are happy to play a supporting role to another man, but they are much less happy to play a supporting role to a woman. People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films, because ultimately that’s what the women have always done. We’ve always lent our name value to male-centric stories, and now we’re going to have to ask the men to swallow their pride, because it seems that it’s about pride. But it’s really vital that that’s the next change.

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Rosamund Pike claims industry is more equal now than in her James Bond days: ‘The gender disparity was far greater then’

Actress Rosamund Pike says the British film industry is leading the way in creating more jobs for women.

The Gone Girl star, 39, said there had been a stark rise in the number of female roles both in front of and behind the camera since she made her movie breakthrough in James Bond film Die Another Day in 2002.

She told the Standard: “I went on the BFI website and they had this very interesting section where you can see a bar chart of gender distribution across all departments on a film.

“I went and looked at my own filmography and I looked at 2002 when I made Die Another Day and the gender disparity was far greater than my last British film — Entebbe in 2017 — when there was a much more even distribution across all departments.”

The Academy Award nominee also praised new rules, due to come into force next year, which state that films entered into two Bafta categories must meet at least two of the four BFI diversity standards.

She said: “That means people have to comply — they can’t just pay lip service. There’s been some strong lines drawn in the sand and everyone is trying to readjust their positions in relation to those lines. The BFI is a vision for the future.”

Pike, who plays the late Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin in forthcoming film A Private War, was speaking at the IWC Schaffhausen Gala Dinner, in association with the British Film Institute, to mark the start of the 62nd BFI London Film Festival.

The event, held at The Electric Light Station in Shoreditch, was also attended by Daniel Kaluuya, Natalie Dormer and Ruth Wilson.

At the gala, Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham was awarded the third annual £50,000 IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award for his debut film Ray & Liz, based on his parents.

Adopted From: standard.co.uk