Rosamund Pike

Born into a musical family, Pike 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).