Rosamund Pike's 2 Children: Everything She's Said About Sons Solo and Atom
'Saltburn' actress Rosamund Pike shares two sons with her boyfriend Robie Uniacke
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Rosamund Pike and Robie Uniacke during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2014, on July 7, 2014 in Paris, France.Rosamund Pike may play wild characters on the big screen, but some of her most adventurous memories are with her two sons, Solo and Atom.
The Gone Girl actress welcomed her two children in 2012 and 2014 with her boyfriend, Robie Uniacke, a businessman to whom she has been linked since 2009. He also has four children from previous relationships.
During an interview on The Graham Norton Show in February 2021, Pike said that Uniacke learned Mandarin so their sons could grow up bilingual. She added said her kids were teaching her the language as well, so she wasn’t left out of their communication.
"I've got my kids homeschooling me," Pike said, laughing. "He's [Uniacke's] basically talking to them in a language I don't understand so I thought maybe lockdown was a good opportunity for me to catch up."
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When Solo and Atom aren't practicing their Mandarin, they like to get into trouble. “The good news is they are a team. The bad news is they're quite a naughty team,” Pike said on Live with Kelly and Ryan in November 2018.
Here’s everything to know about Rosamund Pike’s two children, Solo and Atom.
Solo Uniacke
Pike and Uniacke welcomed their first child, Solo, in 2012.
The actress has said she attributes her success to becoming a mom for the first time.
“You have less time to worry and overanalyze when you're a parent," Pike told Glamour in September 2014. She theorized that her “huntress instinct to provide” for her family kicked in after becoming a mom.
“[Either way,] with children, you spend so much time reexperiencing the world as a child experiences it and that has a nourishing effect on your imagination—in my job, imagination is key,” Pike said.
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Rosamund Pike at the 14th Governors Awards held at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on January 9, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.As Pike shared on The Graham Norton Show in 2021, her boyfriend learned Mandarin so he could teach their kids the Chinese language and the lessons have paid off. In October 2024, Solo won the Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition, a global language competition, according to the South China Morning Post.
Solo, who used his Chinese name, You Zijun, during the competition, won in the primary school category and was named “Future Star of Chinese,” the organizers of the competition shared on Facebook.
Both Pike and Solo appeared in a November 2024 Instagram post shared by the contest's account. Solo can be seen speaking Mandarin and winning the title on stage while Pike congratulates all the competitors.
Atom Uniacke
Pike and Uniacke's second child, Atom, was born in 2014 and jumped into his mom’s busy lifestyle right away. He was born just ahead of awards season when Pike was up for Best Actress for her role in Gone Girl.
“I am just taking him around with me,” she said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in February 2015. “It has a very interesting effect on people because they don’t expect it. I’m turning up to meetings because what do you do — you’re a mom and you got a baby who needs to eat.”
Atom’s life traveling with his mom has continued. While the family is based in London, they’ve vacationed in Jordan and Botswana, as Pike told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in 2018.
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Rosamund Pike attends the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2024 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 18, 2024 in London, England.One of their funniest travel memories happened in Prague while Pike was shooting The Wheel of Time. The family went on what Pike heard was a “wholesome” river cruise where the kids could see snakes. To her surprise, the river is also a popular destination for bachelor and bachelorette parties, leading Solo and Atom to see some wild partying.
Pike joked on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in February 2021 that her children “have never stopped sort of acting drunk ever since.”
In 2022, Atom spent time at the Saltburn mansion and made friends with some of his mom’s famous castmates like Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan.
“Sometimes I sort of say to them ‘Do you realize you’re probably going to be kind of looking back on photos of this summer and thinking, 'Were we really hanging out with Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi?’ ” Pike said in an interview with ETalk CTV in January 2024.
Like his big brother, Atom also speaks fluent Mandarin.
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