Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike is an actress born on 27th January 1979, in Hammersmith, London, UK, and is best known for her performance in the psychological thriller film “Gone Girl” (2014) and roles in films including “Pride and Prejudice”(2005), “Die Another Day” (2002) and “An Education”(2009).
Have you ever wondered how rich Rosamund Pike is? According to sources it has been estimated that Rosamund Pike’s overall net worth is $6 million. The actress has acquired her wealth by portraying roles in some well known films, and her appearances on television have also added to her net worth. Since she is still active in the entertainment industry, her net worth continues to grow.
Rosamund Pike Net Worth $6 Million
Rosamund was born the only child of opera singers Caroline and Julian Pike. During her childhood, Pike followed her parents who travelled all over Europe wherever their performing careers took them. After winning a scholarship to Badminton School in Bristol, where she played Juliet in a production of “Romeo and Juliet” at the National Youth Theatre, she was noticed by an agent who later helped her build a professional career. At first, Rosamund was rejected by every stage school she applied to, but eventually took a place to read English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford from which she later graduated. During her schooling, she appeared on British television in some movies and mini-series, in order to pay her school costs. She took her time, accumulating stage experience in several plays by Shakespeare, and achieved an Upper Second class degree in 2001.
Soon upon graduation, Pike won her debut role in “Die Another Day” (2002) where she got to portray a James Bond girl, starring next to Pierce Brosnan. The next year, she faced a new challenge on stage, when she appeared in a production of “Hitchcock Blonde”, a role which brought her strong reviews since she was required to appear completely nude in only a pair of high heels. A few years later, Rosamund landed a supporting part in “Pride and Prejudice” (2005), in which she appeared next to Keira Knightley. New roles soon followed as she starred in “Fugitive Pieces” and “Fracture” with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. In 2011, she played the part of Kate Sumner in Bond spoof film “Johnny English Reborn” and a year later the role of Queen Andromeda in “Wrath of the Titans”.
Among her other notable appearances is her role of Helen Rodin, the female lead next to Tom Cruise in “Jack Reacher”. In 2014, Pike was seen in David Fincher’s thriller “Gone Girl”, a screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel of the same name; here, she featured opposite Ben Affleck, portraying the role of Amy Dunne. The film turned out to be a box office hit and Pike’s performance earned considerable acclaim from critics worldwide, a boost to her net worth.
Some of her latest activity includes the voicing of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in “Thunderbirds Are Go”. In February 2016, she appeared in Massive Attack’s music video for “Voodoo in My Blood”.
Rosamund has received various nominations and awards, among others the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and many others.
When it comes to her personal life, Pike was in a relationship with actor Simon Woods for two years while studying at Oxford, and despite their break-up, the two played lovers in “Pride and Prejudice” some time later. In 2007, she was engaged to film director Joe Wright but in 2008 he cancelled the wedding. She has been in a relationship with a mathematical researcher, Robbie Uniacke since December 2009, and the couple have two sons.
Academy Award for Best Actress, Empire Awards (2003), BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (2014), British Independent Film Awards (2005) the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Lea...
Movies
"Gone Girl" (2014), "Jack Reacher" (2012), “An Education”(2009), “Pride and Prejudice”(2005), “Pride and Prejudice” , "Die Another Day" (2002), "Return to Sender" (2015)
TV Shows
Thunderbirds Are Go, Women in Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Wives and Daughters
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[on David Fincher's suggestion that she use Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy as a model for Amy Dunne in Gone Girl (2014)] I ordered old copies of the Vanity Fair in which she appeared on the cover. I scoured the internet for any footage of her or, even better, any interviews or recordings which captured her voice. And I realized that David had basically given me a cipher to study. There are countless photographs of Bessette: gorgeous portraits in Vanity Fair; vibrant, intimate photographs taken of Bessette and Kennedy engrossed in each other at parties; shots of her walking the New York streets, wrapping herself in cashmere as protection against the cold and probably photographers, head down, her long blond hair shielding her face from full view. There are even a fair few shots of her and Kennedy clearly in the midst of blistering rows in Central Park, in the street, but I could find nothing of her in her own words. And I thought, Well, maybe that's fine. Amy, as she wants to be seen, should be created from outside in. I tried to find a way to own that body language, the self-protective seductiveness, head down, hair falling....I couldn't really read her face, and so I tried to use that quality. You meet Amy, she smiles, but her eyes are always scanning you, assessing, seeing if you can play the game, surprised and pleased when you score a point, feeling that you might after all be worthwhile. It is not a relaxing way to live.
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[on David Graham] He's so charming. I love working with him. The bond between Parker and Penelope - plus the humour that is batted between them - is really fun to play. David is a gentleman and I am extremely fond of him.
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[on Johnny Depp] -- He is the most amazing actor I've ever worked with. I felt very, very free with him. We had some very traumatic, violent scenes in which the director wanted us to push everything to the limit. I felt sick with worry the morning of shooting. I guess I drew on all the experiences of love I'd ever had. There were no rehearsals. It was very exciting.
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[on Johnny Depp] He's so brilliant to work with, so exciting, you believe in him so much as a character. It made my job very easy. He's like the coolest kid in school. You want to be in his gang. His whole lifestyle is kind of wonderful. He travels with this big group of people. He's like a gypsy. His caravan is always filled with his friends, playing guitar and painting. You want to be in the band. The guys who look after the trailers were like, 'How do we clean in there?' because he covered it with drapes and candles, just covered every available surface.
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[on writer-director Christopher McQuarrie's film, Jack Reacher (2012)] He is such a great writer, he manages to give you all the satisfaction of a love affair without [the characters] ever actually touched. In a way, I started to think that maybe sex scenes are what people put on when there isn't any chemistry.
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Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father (1993) was the first performance that made me think about how incredible acting is. It made me realise the power of film and that this medium could have a physical reaction on me and I hadn't really experienced that before. I come from a theatrical family and grew up around stage, so film-going was not really part of my life. But I remember going to see this film and being riveted by the story and the performances. I found it sexy and believable; it took me into another world. I was in floods of tears at the end of it.
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[on the direction from Joe Wright in Pride & Prejudice (2005)] You can get quite self-conscious at times, there's this business of your close-up coming up but, in that big ball scene, he put three cameras on it. And in lots of the dinner scenes too, so you wouldn't actually know when your moment was coming. That's why it's got that lovely unaware quality to it, you really did feel it's being observed. I think it's because people didn't know they were being watched really, that's what you get, this window on life.
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I'd love to say I was the kind of person who has an outline. But the only outline I have is that I want to carry on doing this all my life.
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I think it's OK to play to your strengths, and if I have a quality of Englishness that people like, I won't hide that. I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better. A view that's been held for a long time is that the best way to prove oneself as an actor is to play the grittiest roles out there. I don't agree with that.
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I think you can make a choice with that kind of thing. You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to. Ideally, I'd like to be living in upstate New York, in a house that I could renovate and fill with books and clothes, while being offered the kind of parts that are currently going to Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman.
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When you're dressed up like Miranda Frost [from Die Another Day (2002)], people assume you have a similar character, but I was 21 and quaking inside.
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I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. 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.
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Filming Pride & Prejudice (2005) was a joy and made for one of my happiest summers ever. "It could well be that the story brings out the best in people - and it sounds so cheesy, but we really did behave like a family. The girls playing the younger sisters had never been on a film set before and wanted to socialize all the time, so we picnicked, hung out in a beautiful country house and went swimming naked in a lake. It was idyllic.
Returned to work 10 months after giving birth to her son Atom to begin filming A United Kingdom (2016).
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She has said that "China and Chinese culture are very important for my family" and has given herself a Chinese name, Pei Chunhua because she thought the transliteration of her English name is long and not very feminine. She explained she chose the Chinese name because Pei is a traditional Chinese last name, Chun represents the idea of pure and honesty, a characteristic she'd like to embody, and Hua has the same sound as the character meaning flower, as Rosamund means rose of the world.
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Joe Wright called off their engagement shortly before their wedding. The "save the date" cards were already sent out. [June 2008].
In 2014, the press gave her the moniker "Bond Girl to Gone Girl", because of the similar characters she played in both the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and in Gone Girl (2014).
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She and Halle Berry are the only two actresses to play Bond Girls (who bedded Bond) in the official 007 franchise to receive Oscar nominations: Berry won for her performance in Monster's Ball (2001), while Pike was nominated for her work in Gone Girl (2014). Kim Basinger, who starred in Never Say Never Again (1983), also went on to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for L.A. Confidential (1997), but her movie is considered non-canon in the 007 franchise. Both Pike and Berry were in the same Bond movie, Die Another Day (2002), and both were nominated in the Best Actress category. Oscar nominee Minnie Driver and Oscar Winner Judi Dench both appeared in the Bond film GoldenEye (1995), but neither played Bond Girls who bedded Bond.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 35, a son Atom Uniacke at home on December 2, 2014. Child's father is her boyfriend, Robie Uniacke.
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Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her son Solo to begin filming The World's End (2013).
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Has been in a relationship with Robie Uniacke since December 2009. They have two sons together.
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David Fincher had her undergo a rigorous boxing training with welterweight champion Holly Lawson for her role in Gone Girl (2014).
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She played two different characters in the James Bond franchise: Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002) and Pussy Galore in BBC4's 2010 radio adaptation of "Goldfinger". Die Another Day co-star Toby Stephens played James Bond in the BBC radio series.
Was engaged to Joe Wright, having met when he directed her on the set of Pride & Prejudice (2005), after he proposed to her on Lake Como in Italy (September 2007-June 2008).
Won the Award for Best Debut at the 2003 Empire Awards for her performance as Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002).
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She was friends with Chelsea Clinton while at Wadham College, Oxford. Not only are they both the same height (5' 9"), they are both fluent in German, and they are both only children.
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An only child, her parents are Julian and Caroline Pike. Julian is a professional opera singer, whilst Caroline is a concert violinist.
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Went to the same school as famous Irish writer Iris Murdoch.
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Graduated with a 2:1 (upper second class degree = 2nd Honors = Magna Cum Laude) in English Literature from Oxford University's Wadham College.
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, GREAT ACTRESS …. MATED WITH “ALMOST inFAMOUS” BUT “TOTAL LOSER AND COMPLETE P.O.S” — Robbie Uniacke! i KNOW THE SAYING FOR ACTORS IS “No PUBLICITY IS BAD PUBLICITY”, THIS “Robbie Uniacke”, other than donating some sperm cells, has to be listed as “The Biggest Loser!”, which of course puts Rosamund as “Less than right in the head!”. Sad really…
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, GREAT ACTRESS ….
MATED WITH “ALMOST inFAMOUS” BUT “TOTAL LOSER AND COMPLETE P.O.S”
— Robbie Uniacke! i KNOW THE SAYING FOR ACTORS IS “No PUBLICITY IS BAD PUBLICITY”, THIS “Robbie Uniacke”, other than donating some sperm cells, has to be listed as “The Biggest Loser!”, which of course puts Rosamund as “Less than right in the head!”. Sad really…