Rosamund Pike
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Rosamund Pike (born January 27, 1979) is a British actress born in London.
Pike was born into a musical family and studied English Literature at Oxford (Wadham College). 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). Before graduating from Oxford, she played 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). Pike became known to a wider audience with her role as "Bond girl" Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002). In 2003 she played the role of the blonde in Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson on London's the West End, for which she had to appear naked on stage à la Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room.