Pike is the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers. She attended Badminton School in Bristol before studying English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. While there, she studied under both Bernard O'Donoghue, the Whitbread prize-winning poet, and Robert J.C. Young, the eminent post-colonial theorist. An able student, she achieved a First Class in her first year examinations Read more...

Pike's British television roles appearances include A Rather English Marriage (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), and Love in a Cold Climate (2001), a mini-series based on the Nancy Mitford novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. She appeared as Sarah Beaumont in an episode of the series Foyle's War.

Pike became known to a wider audience in Die Another Day as a rogue MI-6 agent Read more...

She is a skilled cellist and speaks fluent German and French. She currently lives in the West End. While at Oxford she started a relationship with Simon Woods. She was engaged in 2007 to director Joe Wright, but they called off the wedding they had been planning to hold in 2008.