Complex, intricate thrillers, spy games, serious biopics and war dramas – in all of these Rosamund Pike feels like a fish in water. Versatile British woman was born in 1979. As a child, she and her parents, opera singers, traveled all over Europe, received a good education and since 16 years played in the legendary National Youth Theater.
On the movie screen Rosamund Pike appeared only at the age of 22 and became one of the best female artists of the world. We offer you a list of the best films with many faces, but always recognizable actress who can touch the heart of the most pretentious viewer.
I Care a Lot
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime
- Production: USA, UK / 2020
- Worldwide box office receipts: $1,351,662
- Director: J. Blakeson
- Starring: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Ace Gonzalez, Dianne Wiest, Chris Messina, Isaiah Whitlock Jr, Macon Blair, Alicia Witt, Damian Young, Nicholas Logan
Rosamund Pike proves once again that she has an easy time with charming monster roles, playing the role of con artist Marla in this violent comedy with black humor. Her reputation and activities allow Marla to take control of lonely old people whether they want it or not.
With the help of her network of corrupt doctors, judges and social workers, Marla places the caregivers in institutions where the family can no longer access them, and easily empties the accounts and sells the assets of her charges.
But one day the new “juicy” loot proves to be a stumbling block. Rich and lonely Jennifer Peterson seems the perfect victim, until her son Roman, a dangerous and powerful Russian mobster, appears on the horizon.
The movie was hotly debated on social media because of its scandalous and poignant subject matter, and Pike won a Golden Globe for her brilliant role.
Radioactive
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Biography, Drama, Melodrama
- Production: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary / 2019
- Worldwide box office receipts: $3,515,958
- Director: Marjan Satrapi
- Starring: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale, Anairine Barnard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Shan Brooke, Georgina Rich, Harriet Turnbull, Katherine Parkinson, Edward Davies
A fascinating biopic about the life of two-time Nobel laureate Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the plot of which is organized in the form of memoirs with inclusions in the narrative of tragic events of the future, which became possible thanks to the discoveries of this amazing woman.
It all begins in 1934. Shortly before her death, Maria loses consciousness in her laboratory, and she is rushed to the hospital. In a quiet room, suffocating from illness, she recalls her life: her youth, her dreams, her partnership with Pierre Curie, his death, the education of her daughter Irene, World War I and her discoveries that changed the world forever.
Both Curies suffered radiation sickness while working with radioactive substances, and even today their documents and papers, down to their cookbooks, are stored in lead boxes and are dangerous.
High Wire Act
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime
- Production: USA / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $7,509,436
- Director: Brad Anderson
- Starring: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris, Shay Wigham, Larry Pine, Mark Pellegrino, Idir Chender, Ben Affan, Leila Behti, Alon Abutbul
Do you like intricate spy thrillers? Then this movie is for you. In the prologue, set in 1972, we are introduced to a good-natured diplomat Mason, who lives and works in Lebanon. One day during a party, a group of terrorists break into his home, kill his wife and kidnap a 13-year-old local boy, Karim, whom Mason was planning to adopt.
Then the main story begins. 10 years later, Mason is a burned-out drunk who is unexpectedly recruited by the government for a mission in Lebanon, where bandits who have kidnapped another diplomat demand Mason as a negotiator. Sandy Crowder (Rosamund Pike) becomes his handler and loyal assistant, and Mason must face people from his past, including Kareem.
In preparation for the role, Rosamund Pike read Robert Fisk’s book on the history of Lebanon and did a whole lot of research regarding women in the CIA 35 years ago.
Entebbe
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, History
- Production: UK, USA, France, Malta / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $8,771,432
- Director: José Padilha
- Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Lior Ashkenazi, Denis Menochet, Ben Schnetzer, Angel Bunani, Mark Ivanir, Nonso Anozi, Juan Pablo Raba
Tense action film based on real events (the story of Operation Entebbe) about the hijacking of an airplane, in which Rosamund Pike played the criminal Brigitte Kuhlmann, one of the founders of a left-wing West German terrorist group.
Together with her associate Wilfried Böse, Brigitte hijacks an airplane flying from Tel Aviv to Paris. The hijackers steer the airliner to Entebbe, Uganda, where they join forces with bandits from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and transfer all passengers to the airport terminal, separating the Israelis.
The operation takes place under the control of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Meanwhile, Israel begins preparing an operation to free the hostages, which to this day is considered the most daring and successful in history.
The movie was filmed at Malta International Airport, and the day after filming ended, an actual plane hijacked in Uganda landed here.
A Private War
- IMDB Rating – 6.7
- Genre: Military, Biography, Drama, History
- Production: UK, USA / 2018
- Worldwide box office receipts: $3,915,207
- Director: Matt Heineman
- Starring: Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Alexandra Moen, Faye Marsay, Jesuthasan Anthonitasan, Raman Srinivasan, Natasha Jaithileke, Nikki Amuka-Bird
An American-British independent war drama about journalist Mary Colvin, who traveled to many of the planet’s hot spots, covering the events taking place there. The role of Mary was played by Rosamund Pike, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work.
For journalist Mary Colvin, her reporting was a real private war – with an editor; with dire circumstances; with the neglect of women; with trauma and humiliation; with mortal risk. She created stories that had international repercussions and helped us understand the truth about the chaos of any war.
Despite the fact that Rosamund Pike liked her work in this picture, she recognized the many inaccuracies in it and suggested that her fans watch the 2005 documentary about the work of war journalists “Bearing Witness”.
The Man with the Iron Heart
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Military, Biography
- Production: France, Belgium, UK, USA, Germany, Hungary / 2017
- Budget: €27,800,000
- Worldwide box office: $4,412,639
- Director: Cedric Gimenez
- Starring: Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor, Mia Wasikowska, Stephen Graham, Thomas M. Wright, Barry Atsma, Joff Bell, Enzo Cilenti
In 1942, two members of the Czechoslovak resistance carried out an assassination attempt on the high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich. The operation, codenamed “Anthropoid”, was successful and had very sad consequences for the citizens of Prague.
This movie recounts the events shortly before the operation and depicts the assassination attempt itself from the point of view of Heydrich and the executors of the mission, Jan Kubisch and Josef Gabczyk. Rosamund Pike again plays the villain, Reinhardt’s wife, Lina Heydrich.
The movie was supposed to be released back in 2016, but the premiere was pushed back a year to avoid confusion with another film about the same operation, “Anthropoid” with Cillian Murphy.
Hostiles
- IMDB Rating – 7.2
- Genre: Drama, Western
- Production: USA / 2017
- Budget: $55,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $35,669,017
- Director: Scott Cooper
- Starring: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Jonathan Majors, Ben Foster, Adam Beach, K’Orianka Kilcher, Timothee Chalamet
This thrilling Wild West movie tells the story of Joseph Blocker (played by Christian Bale), an American army captain who fought the Indians for years and hated them.
But one day he is tasked with delivering the chief of the peaceful Cheyenne tribe, along with his family, to his native Montana. Along the way, Blocker picks up a white woman, Rosalie (Rosamund Pike), who has had her entire family slaughtered by the warlike Comanches. This motley company will have a long, hardship-filled and dangerous journey through the lands of fierce Indians.
Rosamund Pike said that Bale was so into his role that even on the set was a little verbal and kept his distance from the rest of the actors.
A United Kingdom
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Biography, History
- Production: UK, USA, France, Czech Republic / 2016
- Budget: $14,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $14,459,330
- Director: Amma Asante
- Starring: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport, Laura Carmichael, Terry Feto, Jessica Oyelowo, Vusi Kunene, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Arnold Osheng.
An amazing story of interracial love at a time when such relationships were reprehensible is British director Amma Asante’s biographical movie about the relationship between black prince Seretse Khamma of South Africa and English lady Ruth Williams.
They met at a party at London’s Nutford House in 1947, the young son of the paramount chief of the future independent republic of Botswana and a World War II-trained Air Force ambulance driver, a fragile blonde. Their love knows no boundaries or prejudices, but is seriously resisted by the young men’s relatives and their governments.
The film is based on the 2006 book “Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation” by British writer and historian Susan Williams.
Return to Sender
- IMDB Rating – 5.1
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
- Production: USA / 2015
- Director: Foad Mikati
- Starring: Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Noltee, Camryn Menheim, Alexi Wasser, Rumer Willis, Illeana Douglas, Steven Louis Grush, Donna DuPlantier, Ian Barford
Tense, heavy, ending with an unexpected finale thriller, in which Rosamund Pike played the lead role. Her heroine is Miranda Wells, a girl whose career is moving uphill. She buys a house, prepares to become a surgical nurse with a better salary and thinks about establishing a personal life.
Setting up a blind date, she invites a strange man into the house, thinking it’s Kevin who should come on the date. But the guest turns out to be a criminal who beats and rapes Miranda.
He is quickly caught and put in jail, and the life of the heroine goes downhill. She has to give up both her career and her new home. And then she begins to write letters to the rapist, soon going on a date with him in prison …
This is the second film by director Foad Mikati, who moved from Lebanon to Paris to make movies.
Hector and the Search for Happiness
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: UK, Canada, Germany, South Africa, USA / 2014
- Worldwide box office receipts: $6,337,728
- Director: Peter Chelsom
- Starring: Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgard, Jean Reno, Christopher Plummer, Tracy Ann Oberman, Veronica Ferres, Barry Atsma, Ming Zhao
Hector (Simon Pegg) is an unconventional London psychiatrist who is disillusioned with life. One day he tells his girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike) that he wants to learn the secret to happiness, throws away everything he had and embarks on a protracted journey.
Hector’s first stop is Shanghai, where he immediately falls in love with the pretty prostitute Ying Li, but his advances are rebuffed. His next destination is Africa, where Hector receives a book on happiness as a gift and is captured by the drug mafia. He has a lot of adventures and acquaintances before Hector realizes that no roads and experiences will give more happiness than the people closest to him.
Gone Girl
- IMDB Rating – 8.1
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Detective
- Production: USA / 2014
- Budget: $61,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $369,330,363
- Director: David Fincher
- Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, David Clennon, Lisa Baines, Missi Pyle
Rosamund Pike’s best role is as Amy Dunne, the image of a vanished woman in this unpredictable and chilling thriller by master of suspense David Fincher. Nick and Amy Dunn are a young couple in love who plan a beautiful celebration of their fifth anniversary of marriage. On the eve of the celebration Amy disappears in circumstances very similar to a brutal kidnapping.
The movie tells the story of the couple’s relationship, from passionate love to gradual cooling down, and at the same time shows the investigation, which quickly leads the police to the idea that Nick is guilty of the woman’s disappearance, and possibly her murder. More and more circumstantial evidence emerges against him that almost screams that he was cruel to Amy. Confused and exhausted, Nick begins his own investigation, which will reveal the shocking truth.
This movie, which made the list of the ten best films of the year, brought Rosamund Pike an Oscar nomination and the title of the best British actress of the year.
What We Did on Our Holiday
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Production: UK / 2014
- Budget: £3,500,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $10,714,112
- Director: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin
- Starring: Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller, Amelia Ballmore, Emilia Jones, Bobby Sauldridge, Harriet Turnbull, Celia Imrie, Annette Crosby
An entertaining family comedy in which Rosamund Pike is uncharacteristically cheerful. She plays the role of Abi, a mother of three who, along with her husband Doug (David Tennant) and offspring, travels to Scotland to celebrate Grandpa Gordie’s birthday.
Perhaps it’s the last holiday of the old man, deeply elderly and ill with cancer, and so Abi and Doug decide to hide their problem from him: they’re getting divorced. But how do they get three chatty kids to lie to their beloved grandfather? The couple will have to do their best to keep their secret, which may just disappear after this trip.
This movie is a loose remake of the 1988 classic comedy Rocket to Gibraltar.
Wrath of the Titans
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Fantasy, action, adventure
- Production: USA, Spain / 2012
- Budget: $150,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $301,970,083
- Director: Jonathan Liebesman
- Starring: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Rafe Fiennes, Edgar Ramirez, Toby Kebbell, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nye, Danny Huston, John Bell, Lily James
This movie is a direct sequel to 2010’s Clash of the Titans and at the same time a loose adaptation of part of the Perseus myth. Rosamund Pike appears here as Andromeda, daughter of the Ethiopian king Kepheus.
After ten years of defeating the Kraken, Perseus, a gorgon-killer with the blood of Zeus in his veins, lives a quiet life in a coastal village and raises a son. Zeus tries to summon him to help the gods in the imminent Titanomachy, but Perseus refuses. Soon, due to the treachery of Ares and Hades, who have made a deal with Cronus, Zeus is captured, and Perseus sets out to rescue his father.
There were five actresses who were contenders for the role of Andromeda, but director Desmond Davis chose Rosamund Pike when Alexa Davalos from “Clash of the Titans” refused to reprise her role.
Jack Reacher
- IMDB Rating – 7.0
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Detective, Crime
- Production: USA / 2012
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $218,340,595
- Director: Christopher McQuarrie
- Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Jai Courtney, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Werner Herzog, Joseph Sikora, Michael Raymond-James, Alexia Fast.
A tough detective thriller with an intriguing plot, based on the 9th book about Jack Reacher by writer Lee Child. The role of Jack was played by Tom Cruise.
Detective Emerson investigates the shooting of five passersby in Pittsburgh. Detainee – former military sniper Barr, and all the evidence eloquently testify against him. But he remains silent, expressing only one request: to find Jack Reacher, who soon appears in Emerson’s office himself.
Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), the defendant’s defense attorney, hires Reacher to investigate and soon discovers strange details in Barr’s case, and at the same time learns how the sniper and the mysterious Jack Reacher are connected.
In the sequel of the movie “Never Go Back” Rosamund Pike no longer appears. By the way, during the filming she was pregnant with her first son.
The Big Year
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2011
- Budget: $41,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $8,179,416
- Director: David Frankel
- Starring: Jack Black, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Rosamund Pike, JoBeth Williams, Brian Dennehy, Dianne Wiest, Kevin Pollack, Joel McHale, Rashida Jones.
Sometimes even the strict Rosamund Pike knows how to joke. For example, when starring in a light comedy with comedians Jack Black, Steve Martin and actor Owen Wilson. The trio are amateur ornithologists who decide to have a competition called “The Big Year.” The one who sees the most birds in the wild in 365 days wins.
Rosamund Pike plays Jessica, wife of Kenny Bostick (Wilson), annoyed by her husband’s infatuation: he promised that this year they would focus on having a baby. But Kenny has no time for that: he and his friends are crisscrossing the American continent in search of new birds, and are already on a record-breaking…
The movie is based on the book by Mark Obmaczyk, written, by the way, based on real events.
Barney’s Version
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Drama, comedy
- Production: Italy, Canada / 2010
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $8,455,457
- Director: Richard J. Lewis
- Starring: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachelle Lefebvre, Anna Hopkins, Jake Hoffman, Bruce Greenwood, Mark Eddy.
Barney Panofsky’s emotional life is as crazy and disorderly as his appearance. The movie, based on the novel by Mordechai Richler, covers several decades of Barney’s life and tells the story of his three marriages and the mysterious disappearance of his best friend.
Barney is a producer of a Montreal soap opera, a penniless representative of Roman bohemia, an amorous and unruly man who attracts women with his irrepressible vitality.
His first wife cheats on him, but Barney is quickly consoled after the divorce, marrying a Jewish princess, swimming in money. And right at the wedding he meets the third, the charming Miriam (Rosamund Pike) and realizes that he has found the love of his life.
This movie, despite critical acclaim and awards, was a worldwide box office disaster, grossing less than a third of its budget.
Surrogates
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Fantastic, Action, Thriller
- Production: USA / 2009
- Budget: $80,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $122,444,772
- Director: Jonathan Mostow
- Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Jeanty, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, Jack Noseworthy, Devin Ratray, Michael Cudlitz.
A magnificent weave of love drama and sci-fi action movie, played by the organic duo of Rosamund Pike and Bruce Willis. In the distant future, mankind widely uses an invention that allows them to control at a distance, feel everything this surrogate feels, and not to leave the house. And the appearance of the surrogate depends only on the wishes of its owner.
FBI agent Tom Greer uses a simple service surrogate and has long dreamed of communicating with living people, not perfect fakes. He’s already forgotten when he saw his wife Maggie lock herself in a room after the death of her son and use a beautiful surrogate to communicate. And then one day Tom gets a difficult case that could destroy the artificial world of plastic surrogates.
Just in 2009, Rosamund Pike found her love, mathematical scientist Robi Uniacke, who, according to her, helped her to form a more serious approach to acting. The couple, who live in a common-law marriage, have two children.
Fugitive Pieces
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Drama
- Production: Canada, Greece / 2007
- Budget: CA$ 12,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $843,945
- Director: Jeremy Podesva
- Starring: Stephen Dillane, Rade Scherbegia, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kaye, Ed Stoppard, Rachelle Lefevre, Themis Bazaka, Nina Dobrev, Diego Matamoros.
Hope after the Holocaust is at the heart of the plot of the art-house Greek-Canadian film Fugitive Pieces, which revolves around a Jewish man named Jacob and moves between his childhood and adulthood.
In 1942 Poland, a young Jew watches from hiding a Nazi raid that kills his parent and captures his sister. He wanders, hiding from people until he is not picked up by a kind-hearted Greek archaeologist Athos, thanks to whom Jacob begins to thaw from the horror of the experience.
Soon the family moves to Canada, where a grown-up Jacob earns a degree and marries the vivacious Alex (Rosamund Pike), hoping she will give him happiness. But ghosts of the past interfere with their union…..
The movie was shown at the Toronto Film Festival, and then could not find a distributor for distribution for a long time, so the picture became a box office failure and only with time gained popularity.
Pride & Prejudice
- IMDB Rating – 7.8
- Genre: Drama, melodrama
- Production: UK, France, USA / 2005
- Budget: $28,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $120,191,768
- Director: Joe Wright
- Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew McFadyen, Rosamund Pike, Simon Woods, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Talulah Riley, Tom Hollander.
According to many critics and viewers, this movie is the best adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Rosamund Pike played the eldest of the Bennet sisters, Jane. The most beautiful, pure-hearted and selfless girl of the whole family, she falls in love with Bingley, and cannot be angry with him, even when he breaks her heart.
Overall, this is the story of the five Bennet sisters, daughters of a petty nobleman who is preoccupied with finding good husbands for his girls so that the estate after his death will be in the hands of an honest man who will not put the orphaned women out on the street.
Rosamund Pike for the sake of this role refused to star in “Harry Potter”, where she was offered the role of Rita Skitter. By the way, after this movie Joe Wright and actress Pike began to meet, in 2008 got engaged and bought a house, but Wright just canceled everything, leaving Rosamund with a broken heart.
The Libertine
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Drama, Biography
- Production: UK, Australia / 2004
- Worldwide box office receipts: $10,852,064
- Director: Lawrence Dunmore
- Starring: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, Rosamund Pike, Rupert Friend, Paul Ritter, Tom Hollander, Jack Davenport, Kelly Reilly, Claire Higgins.
A screen adaptation of the play by Stephen Jeffreys, who wrote the screenplay for the movie. It is the story of John Wilmot, one of the most odious figures at the court of Charles II, the reigning 17th century king of England, Ireland and Scotland. Rosamund Pike played a minor role as Wilmot’s wife, the Countess of Rochester, who was indeed far from the forefront of his life, although John kidnapped her to marry her.
But the movie is about the 2nd Earl of Rochester himself, played by Johnny Depp. A poet, diplomat, ladies’ man and the king’s favorite, he leads an extremely unbridled life, now and then driving his patron mad and risking his head. Another of his plays, filled with sarcasm in the direction of the king, leads to the fact that John has to wander for six months, hiding under a false name. But one day the stubborn monarch once again needs the help of a dodgy courtier….
The development of this movie started back in 1996, but due to various financial difficulties the project was postponed for a long time. And that’s great, otherwise we wouldn’t have seen Rosamund Pike in the movie!
Die Another Day
- IMDB Rating – 6.1
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure
- Production: UK, USA / 2002
- Budget: $142,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $431,971,116
- Director: Lee Tamahori
- Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee, Kenneth Tsang.
The twentieth Bond film, it is also 22-year-old Rosamund Pike’s film debut. She appeared on screen as Miranda Frost, an undercover MI6 employee and love interest of Agent 007.
James Bond is on a mission in North Korea and ends up behind bars, from which he barely manages to escape. Back home, he learns of a new threat to the world: British rich man Graves is trying to create a superweapon and is cooperating with the North Korean military to do so.
Rosamund Pike had to interrupt filming for 1 day to get a degree in English literature at Oxford University. By the way, most of Pike’s erotic scenes with Pierce Brosnan were cut from the final version because they were “too hot”.
