In 2010, she appeared in the British film Made in Dagenham and in the Canadian film Barney's Version in which she plays Miriam. That same year, she starred in a production of Hedda Gabler on a UK tour. Pike recorded voicework for a lead role in the film Jackboots on Whitehall (2010) and lent her voice to a series of James Bond audio books, narrating The Spy Who Loved Me.[17] Also in 2010, Pike voiced the character Pussy Galore in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Fleming's Goldfinger. In 2011, she played the character Kate Sumner in the Bond spoof film Johnny English Reborn, playing a psychologist and English's love interest. The film is a sequel to the 2003 film Johnny English.
In 2012, she played the role of Queen Andromeda in the fantasy epic Wrath of the Titans. She replaced Alexa Davalos, who had played the role in Clash of the Titans and had dropped out due to a scheduling conflict.[18] Taking the role in Wrath of the Titans meant she had to drop out of consideration for a role in Man of Steel.[19] Although the film was not well received by critics, it grossed over $300million and critics considered her performance to be one of the film's highlights.[20] She starred as Helen Rodin, the female lead alongside Tom Cruise in the thriller Jack Reacher, an adaptation of the novel One Shot by Lee Child. The film opened to positive critical reception and grossed over $218million.[21] The following year she had a supporting role in The World's End (2013).
2014–present: Gone Girl and other roles
Pike starred in the David Fincher-directed psychological thrillerGone Girl (2014), a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name.[22] Playing opposite Ben Affleck, Pike was cast as Amy Dunne, a woman who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary. According to Fincher, Pike was his first choice for the role because he wanted someone who was not widely known, Pike having not appeared in any major leading role prior to the film's commencement, and because he found her enigmatic and could not easily read her.[23][24] The film was a box office hit, earning over $356million in global ticket sales.[25] The movie premiered at the 52nd New York Film Festival where the film and Pike's performance both earned widespread acclaim from critics.[26]
In 2021, Pike starred in and executive produced the eight episode historical fiction podcastEdith!. The scripted podcast dramatises a period during the Woodrow Wilson presidency when Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke and First Lady Edith Wilson took the reins of power while he recovered. Clark Gregg plays the role of President Wilson and Esther Povitsky portrays Trudy Grayson, the First Lady's best friend.[33][34] In 2021, Pike narrated the audiobook of Paula Hawkins' novel, A Slow Fire Burning. She also voiced an audiobook of The Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series. In July 2022 it was announced that she would also voice audiobook versions of The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn.[35] In 2022, it was announced that Pike would star in Emerald Fennell's second feature film, Saltburn.[36]
While at Oxford, Pike was in a relationship for two years with Simon Woods.[44] They later played the lovers Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley in Pride & Prejudice. She then became engaged to the director of that production, Joe Wright; their engagement ended in 2008.[45]
Since December 2009, Pike has been in a relationship with businessman Robie Uniacke, 18 years older.[46] In 2015, when they visited China to promote Gone Girl, Pike mentioned that Uniacke had given her a Chinese name 裴淳华 (traditional Chinese: 裴淳華, pinyin:Péi Chúnhuá, IPA: [pʰěɪʈʂʰwə̌n.xwǎ]),[47] and, that, being admirers of Chinese culture, they would like the media to use this as her Chinese name rather than using the transliteration of her English name.[48] The couple have two sons, who are both fluent in Mandarin.[49][50][51][52] Uniacke, Pike and their two sons have relocated to Prague for the duration of filming of The Wheel of Time TV series,[46] returning to London during off-work time.[6][53]
Activism
In 2015, Pike signed an open letter for which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women, as they would serve as the head of the Group of Seven (G7) and the African Union (AU), respectively, which would start to set the priorities for development funding in preparation for a United Nations (UN) summit in September 2015, which was intended to establish new development goals for the next generation.[54]
In 2021, Pike invested in and served as creative director for the psychedelic-inspired meditation app Lumenate, which purports to guide the user into an altered state of consciousness with flashing lights.[55]
In a 2023 interview with The Guardian, Pike expressed a belief that "we're all being conned by the wellness industry" and "this idea that it's no longer enough to be healthy and we have to be 'well' is something that needs to be interrogated". She said "it's so seductive because it's in pursuit of things that people are ashamed to want" and called it "really dangerous".[53]
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↑ 消失的爱人"女主角裴淳华访华 (in Chinese). Mtimes.com. 20 June 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
↑ 裴淳华是什么鬼？《消失爱人》女主给自己取了个中文名. ifeng (in Chinese (China)). 31 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
↑ In a webcast from Prague, on the Graham Norton Show (BBC1), first broadcast on 19 February 2021, Pike noted that her sons both speak Mandarin fluently.
↑ The Windsors: Inside the Royal Family (Documentary), Rosamund Pike, Kate Williams, Sally Bedell Smith, All3 Media, Cable News Network (CNN), RAW, 16 February 2020, retrieved 3 March 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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