Learn more about Rosamund Pike's career ahead of 'Inter Alia'

The Oscar-nominated Gone Girl and Saltburn star makes her National Theatre debut in summer 2025, following a 15-year absence from the stage.

Known as a real 'English Rose' with a perfect cut-glass accent, Rosamund Pike was born in London in 1979 to opera singer parents and started her career with the National Youth Theatre. She studied English at the University of Oxford, taking a year out during her studies to pursue her acting career. Like many British actors, she made her first impressions in costume drama and has gone on to achieve renown in psychological thrillers and insightful biopics. She also has a terrific flair for comedy.

Following early appearances in the television costume dramas Wives and Daughters and Love in a Cold Climate, Pike played “Bond girl” and MI6 agent Miranda Frost in Die Another Day. She played Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and made scene-stealing appearances in An Education and Made in Dagenham.

In the US, Pike starred opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher. Probably her most significant role to date is Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. She was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her performance as this complicated anti-heroine who plots to get her husband arrested for her disappearance.

Other important screen roles include three worthy biopics: playing first lady of Botswana Ruth Williams Khama in A United Kingdom, swashbuckling war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War, and Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie in Radioactive. She won a Golden Globe for playing a con artist posing as a guardian of vulnerable elderly people in the dark comedy I Care a Lot. Last year, she stole the show as the narcissistic Elspeth in the salacious Saltburn.

Pike has made several striking theatre appearances and, next summer, leads Inter Alia by Suzie Miller at the National Theatre, following a 15-year absence from the stage. Read on to learn more about the classy productions in which she's performed.

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Early appearances

Pike’s performance in Romeo and Juliet (as Juliet, of course) for the National Youth Theatre earned her the attention of an agent – yet she didn’t get into drama school, plumping instead to study English at Oxford University. She appeared in various student shows at Oxford and directed Everything Before the But is a Lie by the future legal academic Simon Chesterman.

Hitchcock Blonde (2003)

Pike certainly fulfils the “Hitchcock Blonde” archetype in appearance and demeanour (she has frequently been compared with Grace Kelly). This 2003 play by Terry Johnson, performed at the Royal Court and then at the West End’s Lyric Theatre, explored the great director’s infatuations and ensuing problematic behaviour towards his leading ladies. London Theatre’s reviewer called the show “an original and entertaining evening that I would recommend to anyone, especially fans of Rosie [sic] Pike”.

Summer and Smoke (2006)

The role of Alma Winemiller in Tennessee Williams’s melodrama is an enormous part, and Pike rose to the challenge with aplomb in Adrian Noble’s production (it was the first time the play had been seen in London in 55 years). Pike gave a sensitive portrayal of passion and pain as the mentally unstable Alma, opposite The O.C. star Chris Carmack as John Buchanan, the local hellraiser. The pair’s beauty was much admired and it was unanimously agreed that they also had the talent to match.

Gaslight (2007)

Fifteen years before Merriam-Webster dictionary chose "gaslighting" as its word of the year, Pike starred in a revival of Patrick Hamilton's 1938 Victorian-set thriller. Pike played Bella Manningham (played by Ingrid Bergman in the film adaptation), a young wife who fears that she's going mad. The Old Vic production was directed by Peter Gill and Pike co-starred with Andrew Woodall and Kenneth Cranham. Audiences were gripped.

Madame de Sade (2009)

Pike played the title role – the wife of the notorious libertine and sadist Marquis de Sade – in this English-language version of Yukio Mishima’s historical play, directed by Michael Grandage as part of his 2008-9 Donmar West End season. The all-female cast also featured Judi Dench as Pike’s character’s mother, plus Frances Barber and Deborah Findlay. This heavily cerebral, dialogue-heavy play of ideas about sex and power received mixed reviews but the performances were largely praised.

Hedda Gabler (2010)

One of theatre’s ultimate anti-heroines (a forerunner to Gone Girl’s Amy, in a sense?) Pike played the title role in Ibsen’s domestic tragedy at Bath Theatre Royal and on tour, again directed by Noble. Pike received rave reviews for her icily imperious command of the stage and mordantly blood-thirsty interpretation of the role.

Inter Alia (2025)

In summer 2025, Pike is due to make her National Theatre debut in Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s new play Inter Alia, playing a High Court Judge forced to reckon with her professional life and her role as wife, mother, friend, and feminist. From the same team as the Jodie Cromer-starring, award-winning Prima Facie, this brand-new piece of work may well be Pike’s most exciting stage project yet.

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