Rosamund Pike has said she thinks she damaged her career by taking 18 months off to raise her kids right after Gone Girl catapulted her to mainstream fame.
The actress, 47, shares sons Solo, 13, and Atom, 11, with her partner Robie Uniacke, 65, - who has four other children.
Hugely popular thriller Gone Girl came out in 2014 and right after she was pregnant with her second son.
Gone Girl starred Rosamund as Amy Dunne who mysteriously disappears on the day of her fifth wedding anniversary.
She starred opposite who played her husband Nicholas as well as .
In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Rosamund said she 'wasn't very strategic' with her timings and that she 'took herself out of the running' for those 18 months she had off afterwards.
Rosamund Pike has said she thinks she damaged her career by taking 18 months off to raise her kids right after Gone Girl catapulted her to mainstream fame
The actress, 47, shares sons Solo, 13, and Atom, 11, with her partner Robie Uniacke, 65, - who has four other children
Speaking of her career break right after the film came out she said: 'I'm not very strategic in terms of career, making sure I am in the right place, meeting the right people.
'I made Gone Girl, I got pregnant, I wasn't there to do all the schmoozing and ride the whole shebang. I could have been so much more strategic.
'I was at a point where I could have got a lot of jobs but took myself out of the running for 18 months, which was sort of insane.'
Late last year Rosamund appeared to let slip that she'd secretly married partner of 16 16 years Robie -
During an earlier appearance at , the London-born star was spotted wearing a silver band on her ring finger as she strode through the French capital.
The mystery deepened at the New York premiere of Now You See Me: Now You Don't, where Rosamund posed for photographers with a band clearly visible on her ring finger - before later shifting it to the middle finger of her left hand.
As well as having sons with Rosamund, he has a son with ex-wife Emma Howard and three children with his second wife, interior designer Rose Uniacke.
Before finding happiness with Robie in 2009, Rosamund had two significant relationships that shaped her cautious views on marriage.
Hugely popular thriller Gone Girl came out in 2014 and right after she was pregnant with her second son (her co-star Ben Affleck is seen in the film)
Her first love was actor Simon Woods, 45, whom she met while both were studying English at Oxford.
They were together for two years before parting when he came to terms with his sexuality.
He later built a life with his now-husband Christopher Bailey, the former chief executive of Burberry.
Shortly after, she
The pair became engaged in 2007 after meeting on the set of Pride & Prejudice in 2005 and bought a home together - but the relationship crumbled while planning the wedding.
