Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike born January 27 1979 is a British actress She has received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award Pike began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet alongside Paul Ready and Gas Light After her screen debut in the television film A Rather English Marriage 1998 and television roles in Wives and Daughters 1999 and Love in a Cold Climate 2001 she received international recognition for her film debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day 2002 for which she received the Empire Award for Best Newcomer Following her breakthrough she won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Libertine 2004 and portrayed Jane Bennet in Pride Prejudice 2005 Pike had film appearances in the scifi film Doom 2005 the crimemystery thriller film Fracture 2007 the drama film Fugitive Pieces 2007 the comingofage drama An Education 2009 for which she was nominated for the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year and scifi comedy The Worlds End 2013 She also received British Independent Film Award nominations for An Education and Made in Dagenham 2010 and was nominated for a Genie Award for Barneys Version 2010 Her other films include the spy action comedy Johnny English Reborn 2011 the epic actionadventure fantasy Wrath of the Titans 2012 and the action thriller Jack Reacher 2012 In 2014 her performance in the psychological thriller Gone Girl was met with widespread critical acclaim winning the Saturn Award for Best Actress and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress Pike received further acclaim for her starring role as Ruth Williams Khama in the biographical drama A United Kingdom 2016 and for portraying the journalist Marie Colvin in the biographical war drama A Private War 2018 for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama Pike won a Primetime Emmy Award for her role in State of the Union in 2019 She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in I Care a Lot 2020 She has also starred in the Amazon Original series The Wheel of Time 2021present