Rosamund Pike

Pike became known to a wider audience with her role as "Bond girl" Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002). She died in Brighton. 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). It was her success in Hollywood that brought her recognition, and in 1960 she was created a Dame of the British Empire. Pike was born into a musical family and 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). After the war, demonstrating her range, she appeared in Holiday Camp (1947), the first of a series of films which featured the very ordinary Huggett family; as the Mother Superior in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947); as a magistrate in Goodtime Girl (1948); as a prospective Labour MP in Basil Dearden's excellent Frieda (1947); and in Dearden's costume melodrama, Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). Rosamund Pike (January 27, 1979) is a British [actor|actress]] born in London, England. At the age of 32, Robson played the old Empress Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's Catherine the Great (1934).

Lacking the glamorous looks of a leading lady, she specialised in character roles, notably that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). She was born in South Shields, Durham, England and made her stage debut in 1921 at the age of 19. Flora Robson (March 28, 1902 - July 7, 1984) was a British actress renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britain's theatrical grandes dames.