Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#848
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rosamund Pike represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Rosamund is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rosamund Pike appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rosamund. Pride & Prejudice is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Guy Ritchie, Thea Sharrock, Ruben Fleischer and others, Rosamund Pike helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Jane Bennet · Gone Girl (2014) as Amy Dunne · In the Grey (2026) as Bobby Sheen
Career snapshot
Ranked #848 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
2002–2027
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Pride & Prejudice
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Pride & Prejudice
Most frequent director
Guy Ritchie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Guy Ritchie
Most common genre
Drama
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Informer, A Private War, 7 Days in Entebbe — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 19 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Surrogates, An Education, Fracture.
Most productive era
2010s
19 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.03 films | 6.713 films | 5.04 films |
| Action | 5.83 films | 6.46 films | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.53 films | 6.67 films | 5.66 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.68 films | 6.53 films |
| Crime | — | 6.44 films | 6.62 films |
| Romance | 7.03 films | — | 6.61 film |
| Horror | 5.21 film | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Die Another Day
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miranda Frost.
Highest rated performance
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2014Gone Girl
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Wife & Dog
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
34 of 34 films
as Amy Dunne
Directed by David Fincher
as Marie Colvin
Directed by Unknown
as Rosalee Quaid
Directed by Scott Cooper
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Amy Dunne
Gone Girl (2014)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Amy Dunne gives Rosamund Pike a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jane Bennet
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Performance score8.2
Pride & Prejudice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jane Bennet is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marie Colvin
A Private War (2018)
Performance score7.4
A Private War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marie Colvin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rosalee Quaid
Hostiles (2017)
Performance score7.4
Hostiles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rosalee Quaid is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Amy Dunne
Start here. Gone Girl is the clearest statement of what Rosamund Pike does — accessible, 149 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rosamund at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Keeps the drama register of Gone Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Pride & Prejudice — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hostiles (2017)
A deliberate change of key after What We Did on Our Holiday — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
A Private War (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Hostiles but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Guy Ritchie
Director
2 films together
Notably In the Grey
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Another Day
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together
Notably Doom
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Pride & Prejudice
Gregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together
Notably Fracture
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably An Education
Jonathan Mostow
Director
1 film together
Notably Surrogates
Nigel Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably Made in Dagenham
Richard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together
Notably Barney's Version
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably Johnny English Reborn
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Year
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack Reacher
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Wrath of the Titans
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The World's End
Andy Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably What We Did on Our Holiday
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Gone Girl
Amma Asante
Director
1 film together
Notably A United Kingdom
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Heart
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Hostiles
Brad Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Beirut
José Padilha
Director
1 film together
Notably 7 Days in Entebbe
Marjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together
Notably Radioactive
J Blakeson
Director
1 film together
Notably I Care a Lot
Emerald Fennell
Director
1 film together
Notably Saltburn
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Thea Sharrock
Director
1 film together
Notably Ladies First
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Guy Ritchie
Director
2 films together · 3.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
In the GreyJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pride & PrejudiceDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gone GirlGregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FractureScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HostilesRichard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barney's VersionEmerald Fennell
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SaltburnLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An EducationEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The World's EndAmma Asante
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A United KingdomAndy Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What We Did on Our HolidayChristopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack ReacherNigel Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Made in DagenhamRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me: Now You Don'tJ Blakeson
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Care a LotMarjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RadioactiveCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron HeartBrad Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeirutOliver Parker
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Johnny English RebornJonathan Mostow
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SurrogatesThea Sharrock
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ladies FirstDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big YearLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die Another DayJosé Padilha
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
7 Days in EntebbeJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wrath of the TitansAndrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DoomSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pride & Prejudice
as Jane Bennet
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Jane Bennet
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Jane Bennet
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Jane Bennet
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gone Girl
as Amy Dunne
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Rosamund Pike has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
20 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Gone Girl
as Amy Dunne
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gone Girl
as Amy Dunne
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Radioactive
as Marie Curie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gone Girl
as Amy Dunne
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
In the Grey
as Bobby Sheen
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Die Another Day
as Miranda Frost
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Made in Dagenham
as Lisa Hopkins
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Gone Girl
as Amy Dunne
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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