Rosamund Pike breaks down in tears during emotional curtain call for Inter Alia press night as her West End performance receives rave reviews

Rosamund Pike was brought to tears during the curtain call of the Inter Alia press night at Wyndham's Theatre in London on Tuesday.

The actress, 47, is reprising her role as Crown Court Judge Jessica Parks in the play which premiered at the National Theatre in July 2025.

Rosamund has returned for the play's West End transfer and became emotional as she waved to the crowd at the end of the performance.

The Gone Girl star was seen with her head in her hands as she was given a thunderous applause for her performance. 

In the play, Rosamund portrays a Crown Court Judge who specialises in sexual violence cases. 

But her world comes apart when her teenage son Harry is accused of rape, forcing her to reconcile her commitment to justice with her desire to protect her son. 

The West End show has received glowing reviews from critics with the Daily Mail's Patrick Marmion awarding it four stars.

He wrote: 'It's a roller coaster of a show for which Pike may well win an Olivier Award this coming Sunday.'

The Standard's Nick Curtis called Rosamund's performance 'stunning' and added: 'Onstage throughout, Pike is in constant motion, slipping in and out of outfits, catching a casually flung lemon, and keeping up a sometimes amused, sometimes emotionally frayed commentary for the audience on how her gender affects her life.'

Londontheatre.co.uk gave the play four stars and wrote: 'Pike masterfully works her way through Miller’s demanding script, hurtling through the lines with precision from the moment she enters the stage.'

The Times also awarded it four stars with critic Dominic Maxwell saying Rosamund 'deserves' to win an Olivier award for her performance.

He wrote: 'Take this as a story about the wild challenge of balancing morality and legality, of protecting your children and letting them go, and you have something fine indeed. All rendered vivid by a remarkable central turn that is all action yet deeply felt.'

WhatsOnStage also gave the show four stars and wrote: 'It is Pike’s play and Pike’s night, and she seizes it with such relish, whether belting out a karaoke number and downing shots with the girls before getting in a taxi exhausted at 9pm, or facing her worst fears of failure as a wife and mother. 

'She is supremely witty and sharp, but also devastatingly exposed and tender.'

It comes after Rosamund 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 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 Ben Affleck who played her husband Nicholas as well as Emily Ratajkowski.  

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.

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.'