Editing Rosamund Pike (section)

==Early life and education==
Pike was born in 1979 in [[Hammersmith]], London,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosamund Pike Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/rosamund-pike|website=Biography|access-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127154852/http://www.biography.com/people/rosamund-pike|archive-date=27 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> the only child of opera singers Julian Pike and Caroline Friend.<ref name=Brady/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/4987005/Rosamund-Pike-interview.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |title=Rosamund Pike interview |first=Lucy |last=Cavendish |date=18 March 2009 |access-date=22 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005011236/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/4987005/Rosamund-Pike-interview.html |archive-date=5 October 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-dominion-post/20161202/281998967072077|title=Pike delivers after acting break | via=[[PressReader]] | work=[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)]] | date=2 December 2016 | access-date=9 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210015916/https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-dominion-post/20161202/281998967072077|archive-date=10 December 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She attended [[Badminton School]] in [[Bristol]]. While appearing as Juliet in a production of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' at the [[National Youth Theatre]], she was noticed by an agent who helped her embark upon a professional career. After being turned down by every stage school to which she applied, she gained a place to read [[English literature]] at [[Wadham College, Oxford]]. She graduated with an [[British undergraduate degree classification#Degree classification|Upper Second-class honours degree]] in 2001, having taken a year off to pursue her acting career, gaining stage experience in [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]'s ''[[Skylight (play)|Skylight]]'', [[Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[All My Sons]]'', and several plays by [[William Shakespeare]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/oct/13/features.magazine|title=The name's Pike, Rosamund Pike|work=The Guardian|date=13 October 2002|access-date=25 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909221821/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/oct/13/features.magazine|archive-date=9 September 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>