From Bond Girl to Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike’s journey as an actress has taken her from the depth of the James Bond series to a role in a David Fincher flick. Not a bad place to end up considering the roles that have been put in front of her over her career. The gorgeous Pike was long rumored to be the favorite to land the lead role in Fincher’s next film, Gone Girland the new became official on Thursday.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pike — still a virtual unknown to American audiences — beat out A-List stars like Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman to land the role alongside two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck.

Pike will play a wife who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, as her husband (Affleck) becomes the prime suspect. Much of the story is told in flashbacks.

Despite being an obviously talented and amazingly attractive actress, Pike has yet to catch on the way many hoped she would when she landed what we thought would be a career altering role in Die Another Day. But with the failure of the film, Pike’s career was altered in the opposite sense of what was hoped for and she proceeded to add stinkers like Doom, Surrogatesand Wrath of the Titans.

However, when Pike is in lower budget movies, she tends to shine through as was the case with Pride and Prejudice, An Education and Made in Dageham, all of which landed her some sort of British Film award or nomination.

The excitement over Pike landing this role in Gone Girlis it will place her in the Fincher universe where actors go in unknown talents and come out A-List Hollywood stars. See Mara Rooney and Armie Hammer as examples of this. If Fincher is his usual brilliant self with Gone Girl, Pike may finally explode onto the Hollywood scene they way she should already be.