Rosamund Pike: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

3. Miranda Frost - Die Another Day

At the mere age of 23, Pike forever cemented herself in cinema history by playing Bond girl Miranda Frost, the assistant to Gustav Graces (Toby Stephens), who is in fact an undercover MI6 agent and, ultimately, a double agent who betrays James (Pierce Brosnan), before being killed by fellow Bond girl Jinx (Halle Berry). In fairness, Die Another Day is a film in which practically no actor emerges unscathed: Brosnan is forced to suffer through all sorts of indigities, Berry is a weird fit for a Bond girl, and though Pike's classic beauty and Britishness makes her better-suited to the franchise, she's ultimately given little to do beyond look sexy and act cold towards Bond before the wildly predictable plot twist shows up. It's unfortunate for Pike that she got cast in probably the worst of the Bond films to date, because as a lead Bond girl with a stronger script, she could've been one for the ages. Instead, she's a shockingly dull (if attractive) character in a laughably bad movie.