Rosamund Pike: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

1. Amy Dunne - Gone Girl

And yet nothing Pike has done to date holds a candle to her insane work in David Fincher's Gone Girl, playing Amy Dunne, the missing wife of Nick (Ben Affleck), who is himself accused of being involved in her disappearance. Though little can be said of the role without ruining the crazy twists and turns of Gillian Flynn's novel, needless to say, it's an incredibly demanding role, one which Pike gamely takes in her stride to the extent that it may well earn her that precious first Oscar nomination. Though her part is inevitably going to be compared to a certain Oscar-nominated role from a certain 1980s thriller, Pike delivers something very much her own, fleeting from the veiled happiness of a failing marriage to something much more insidious and disturbing. Pike gets some incredibly challenging material to work with throughout her screen time, and given how inherently silly much of the story is, she manages to, alongside Fincher's fabulous direction, sell it like it's Shakespeare. Destined to become immortalised through this once-in-a-lifetime role, Pike will be going places off the back of her incredible work here.