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Rosamund Pike (born January 27, 1979) is a British television, theater and film actress. She is best known for playing "Bond girl" Miranda Frost in Die Another Day
(2002) and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.

Biography

Rosamund Pike was born as the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers, and attended Badminton School in Bristol before studying English Literature at Oxford (Wadham College), where she was friends with Chelsea Clinton, and where both Bernard O'Donoghue, the Whitbread prize-winning poet, and Robert J.C. Young the eminent post-colonial theorist were among her tutors. An able scholar, she achieved a First Class result in her first year examinations (known as Moderations at Oxford) and, after taking a year out to pursue her career, returned to complete her degree in 2001, gaining an Upper Second. Her time at Oxford was clearly very important to her and she has referred to it in several interviews as having played a useful role in her approach to acting. Previous to that she had been accepted into National Youth Theatre at the age of 16. She is a skilled cellist, and fluently speaks German and French. She currently lives in the West End, London

Acting career

She started acting very early, and during her college years appeared in various student productions (David Hare's Skylight, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, and several plays by Shakespeare).

She played roles on British television even before graduating from Oxford, such as Celia in A Rather English Marriage (1998), at the age of 19, and Lady Harriet Cumnor in Wives and Daughters (1999). She played the lead role of Fanny in the remake of Love in a Cold Climate (2001), a BBC mini-series based on two Nancy Mitford novels (The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate). She appeared as Sarah Beaumont in an episode of the series Foyle's War. She had to delay her graduation studies to finish work on the serials.

In 2003 she played the role of the blonde in Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson in London's West End, for which she had to appear naked on stage à la Nicole Kidman
in The Blue Room.
Film career

Pike became known to a wider audience with her role as "Bond girl
" Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002
), portraying an icy megalomaniac who is a rogue MI-6 agent originally assigned to aid James Bond. She later appeared to present the special show Bond Girls Are Forever and the BAFTA tribute to the James Bond series.

She played Elizabeth Malet in The Libertine (2005) co-starring Johnny Depp
, and the character of Rose in The Promised Land, a film about Israel.

In 2005
, she starred as the scientist Dr. Samantha Grimm in the cinematic adaptation
of the computer game Doom. She also played the role of Jane, the eldest sister of Elizabeth, played by Keira Knightley
in the 2005 release Pride and Prejudice''.

She has just finished playing Zoe Hughes in Devil You Know due to release in 2006.

Trivia

Is 5'9" tall.
An anagram of her name is 'A Supremo Kind'.

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