Rosamund Pike

English actress

Rosamund Pike is an acclaimed English actress and producer known for her roles in psychological thrillers and dramas. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, and has been recognized for her portrayals of complex, morally ambiguous female characters. With a diverse filmography spanning both film and television, Pike’s career has spanned over two decades and showcases her versatility as a performer.

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About the Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Mary Ellen Pikeis an English actress and producer. Prolific in both film and television, she is particularly known for her portrayals of morally ambiguous women in psychological thrillers and dramas. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards.

Pike studied at Wadham College, Oxford and began her acting career by appearing in stage productions including Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre. She had her breakthrough for her film debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Dayand Made in Dagenhamand The World’s Endand Marie Colvin in the war film A Private Warearned her additional nominations from the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards.

On television, Pike won a Primetime Emmy Award for her role in the comedy miniseries State of the Union (2019). In 2021, she began starring as Moiraine Damodred in the Amazon Prime Video fantasy series The Wheel of Time, and in 2024, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series as an executive producer of the science fiction series 3 Body Problem.

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Rosamund Pike has won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, and has received nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards.

Rosamund Pike began her acting career by appearing in stage productions, including a production of Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre, before making her film debut as the Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day.

Rosamund Pike is particularly known for her portrayals of morally ambiguous women in psychological thrillers and dramas.

In 2024, Rosamund Pike was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series as an executive producer of the science fiction series 3 Body Problem.

Rosamund Pike studied at Wadham College, Oxford before beginning her acting career.

Rosamund Pike’s breakthrough film role was as the Bond girl Miranda Frost in the 2002 movie Die Another Day.

Rosamund Pike received critical acclaim for her starring role as Amy Dunne in the psychological thriller Gone Girl, which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award, British Academy Film Award, and Academy Award for Best Actress.

14 Quotes by Rosamund Pike

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    And I like the look on people’s faces when I say I’m doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I’m in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

    Rosamund Pike

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    The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it’s so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it’s lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    Nothing can teach you what it’s like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    I’ve been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

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    I think you tend to try, during the time you’ve got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it.

    Rosamund Pike

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    I’ve got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I’m really fascinated by that.

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    English actress

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    It’s something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it’s incredibly unreal and it’s all about the action, and just explosions.

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    It was in New York, and I’ve always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we’ve done it. So it’s great.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    I’m probably not going to play a junkie and that’s OK because there are other people who will do it better.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you’re just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn’t make that much of a difference really.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress

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    I’d really love to live in New York for awhile. That’s what I’m hoping to do.

    Rosamund Pike

    English actress