Biography
Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike is a British actress. She was born on 27 January 1979 in Hammersmith, London. She studied at Wadham College, Oxford, and appeared in stage productions including Romeo and Juliet at the National Youth Theatre before her screen debut.
Pike first gained notice as Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002). She played Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005) and appeared in films including An Education (2009), Johnny English Reborn (2011), Jack Reacher (2012), The World's End (2013) and Wrath of the Titans (2012). Her performance as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl (2014) earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
She portrayed Ruth Williams Khama in A United Kingdom (2016) and Marie Colvin in A Private War (2018). Pike won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for I Care a Lot (2020) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for State of the Union (2019). She played Elspeth Catton in Saltburn (2023) and Veronika Vanderberg in Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025).
