Keith Girard
Rosamund Pike is next set to star in ‘The World’s End’ with Simon Pegg.
The fetching English actress appears in a stunning photo spread in the latest edition of British Esquire
Pike, 34, scored her breakout role in 2002 James Bond thriller, “Die Another Day,” the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series and last to star Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007.
This month, Pike will supply some of the eye candy for “The World’s End,” a doomsday comedy by Edgar Wright and British comedian and actor Simon Pegg.
Pike will play one of five old friends, including Pegg and Martin Freeman, who reunite after 20 years and decide to finish a pub crawl they started last time they got together. Only problem, aliens are invading the earth.
Rosamund Pike: Hot to Trot in Esquire
Although Pike may be known as a blonde bombshell, she had a classical English upbringing.
She’s only child of concert musicians and opera singers Caroline Friend and Julian Pike. Her father currently works as a professor of music and head of Operatic Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire. She started acting as a teen but still managed to graduate from Oxford with a degree in English.
She has the range to play proper roles like the eldest Bennet sister in 2005’s Jane Austen classic, “Pride and Prejudice,” with Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Jena Malone. Or in off-beat comedies like “The World’s End.”
“To be made to laugh is one of the greatest things on Earth and to be in the company of people who do that the best – like Simon and Nick – is the best,” Pike told Esquire. “It’s good for the soul.”
Her latest film debuts July 19.
Pike is so hot she had a two-year relationship with gay actor Simon Woods. She gave birth to her first child, a son, Solo in May 2012, with Robie Uniacke, whom she’s been dating since 2010.
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