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Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike (born January 27, 1979) is a British actress. She has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Pike began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet, alongside Paul Ready, and Gas Light. After her screen debut in the television film A Rather English Marriage (1998) and television roles in Wives and Daughters (1999) and Love in a Cold Climate (2001), she received international recognition for her film debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002), for which she received the Empire Award for Best Newcomer. Following her breakthrough, she won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Libertine (2004) and portrayed Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). Pike had film appearances in the sci-fi film Doom (2005), the crime-mystery thriller film Fracture (2007), the drama film Fugitive Pieces (2007), the coming-of-age drama An Education (2009), for which she was nominated for the London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year, and sci-fi comedy The World's End (2013). She also received British Independent Film Award nominations for An Education and Made in Dagenham (2010), and was nominated for a Genie Award for Barney's Version (2010). Her other films include the spy action comedy Johnny English Reborn (2011), the epic action-adventure fantasy Wrath of the Titans (2012), and the action thriller Jack Reacher (2012). In 2014, her performance in the psychological thriller Gone Girl was met with widespread critical acclaim, winning the Saturn Award for Best Actress and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Pike received further acclaim for her starring role as Ruth Williams Khama in the biographical drama A United Kingdom (2016) and for portraying the journalist Marie Colvin in the biographical war drama A Private War (2018), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Pike won a Primetime Emmy Award for her role in State of the Union in 2019. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in I Care a Lot (2020). She has also starred in the Amazon Original series The Wheel of Time (2021–present).
Rosamund Pike
Queen Isabelle (Aurore's mother)
for Queen Isabelle (Aurore's mother) in Thornwood
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She was cursed at birth to sleep for a century. Nobody told the curse she would dream the whole time — or what she would learn there. Princess Aurore, 17 at the time of the curse, sleeps for one hundred years in Thornwood Castle — but the film's radical choice is to follow what happens inside the dream. While the kingdom overgrows with briars and the world changes outside, Aurore's dream-consciousness expands: she encounters the Spinner (the curse's architect, revealed to be a woman of genuine grievance rather than simple malice), she teaches herself the lost arts of her kingdom from the dream's archive of memory, and she falls in love with a version of the prince who is not a savior but a presence she constructs from her own hopes — which makes the waking encounter with the real Prince Léon far more complicated. The film moves between Aurore's dream-world (lush, slightly wrong, timelessly lit) and the waking world (the hundred years shown in fast-forward through the changing seasons visible through the castle windows). When Léon cuts through the briars, he finds not a passive sleeper but a woman who has spent a century becoming extraordinary — and who needs to grieve the world she missed before she can love the one she woke to. Act One — The Spindle Aurore's world before the curse — the film's only fully sunlit sequence. The thirteenth fairy's arrival. The sleep descending. Act Two — The Dream Century One hundred years of Aurore's interior life. The Spinner's presence in the dream as unwilling companion. The library of the kingdom's lost history. The dream-Léon. Act Three — The Waking Léon cutting through the briars. The kiss. Aurore's eyes opening. The grief and the possibility. The gap between the dream and the world.
