Miranda
Frost (Rosamund Pike)
Character
| "She's called Miranda Frost, which is a good name.
It was going to be Gala Brand, and then we created this new one. She's an MI6
agent, which is a cool thing to be, sent to work alongside Bond by M and not very
happy about it. She would rather go it alone and doesn't quite approve of Bond's
methods. He seems to be all fire where she's all coolness and reserve. And then
she keeps showing different sides all the way through. It's a lot of fun."
Rosamund was thrown in at the deep end when production first began. "It's
like doing a 9-5 job because I'm in training and kind of building up this character
through every angle – through sport, hair, through clothes." | |  |
"As Miranda is a top-notch agent and sportswoman, the role meant
a total change from Pike's previously girly roles. 'It couldn't be further from
anything I've done. It's a great way into a part because she's a top sportswoman,
so I've got to turn myself into that. She's got one skill that I'm not allowed
to tell you about – but it rivals Bond girls in the past – it's something
new and exciting for Bond to have this particular sport in play."
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She may not be able to tell you about it, but MI6 can reveal Miranda Frost
is a gold medalist fencer who won her title at the Sydney Olympics. MI6 places
the Harvard educated Frost in deep cover investigating Gustav Graves by taking
up the guise of his publicist and personal trainer. Like the new M when
she first met Bond, Frost does not have a high opinion of the world's greatest
secret agent. She first meets Bond at Blades Club where Bond is hot on
the tail of Graves after his discoveries in Cuba. Unaware of her real status,
Bond does not impress, as she tells M in her briefing that she sees him as an
explosive liability, a womaniser, and a danger to her deep cover. But she
is unaware that Bond is watching her from amongst the paparazzi when Graves is
knighted at Buckingham Palace. |
| Pike: "My God, I'm in bed with James
Bond - I'm in a position that huge numbers of women around the globe would love
to be in."' | | M sends Frost to Iceland
to keep a close eye on Bond's activities. As Bond is a tired, exhausted agent
who is living on the edge, Frost; in a twist on the Bond formula; takes advantage
and seduces Bond at the Ice Palace to learn his theories on Graves and Icarus.
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The darker side to her character slowly emerges as the divide
between her undercover work with MI6 and her loyalties to Graves begin to blur.
She alerts Graves to Jinx's real intentions, which causes the NSA agent to be
strapped to a torture rack with deadly lasers underneath on the the diamond mine
research biodomes.
The finale is now set for a frantic showdown between
Bond, Jinx, Frost and Graves onboard an enormous Antonov plane above Korea. The
friction between Jinx and Frost climaxes in a girl-on-girl fight that is set to
stun Bond fans in November.
Biography
Born:
27th January 1979, London England UK
Rosamund was born in England to a family
of talented performers: her mother is an established opera singer and her father
is a concert violinist. Her theatre talents also took her to faraway Tokyo in
productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth.
Pike admits that she
always wanted to be an actress, "although I always assumed I'd work in the
theatre rather than be a Bond Girl". Most of her childhood was spent in West
London. Her parents, Caroline and Julian, were both opera singers, who travelled
a lot to wherever the work was. With such musical parents, it is unsurprising
that Rosamund is also talented on the Piano and Cello.
An only child, Pike
went to boarding school in Bristol and then on to read English Literature at Oxford
University (making her the first Oxford-educated Bond Girl), and she shares her
alma mater with actresses Emily Mortimer (Scream 3), Jodhi May (The Last of the
Mohicans) - and Chelsea Clinton.
While there, she was offered the part of
Lady Harriet in the BBC's adaptation of Wives and Daughters, and then the part
of Fanny in Love in a Cold Climate. With many successes under her belt, Pike moved
into the world of television and starred in several successful mini-drama's, as
popular in the US as the UK.
Pike met her actor boyfriend Simon whilst at
Oxford after he saw her performing. Happy to see where life takes her, she has
no plans to settle down anywhere and is making the most of her recently found
fame.
This is Pike's big screen debut and the world's media is already
queuing around the blocks to find out more about this soon to be star.
