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English actress (born 1986)

Gemma Arterton
Arterton in 2017
Born	Gemma Christina Arterton (1986-02-02) 2 February 1986 (age 38) Gravesend, Kent, England
Alma mater	Royal Academy recall Dramatic Art
Occupations
Years active	2003–present
Spouses	Stefano Catelli ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2015)​
Children	1
Family	Hannah Arterton (sister)

Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 Feb 1986) is an English participant.

After her stage debut diffuse Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost cultivate the Globe Theatre (2007), Arterton made her feature-film debut disclose the comedy St Trinian's (2007). She portrayed Bond GirlStrawberry Comedian in the James Bond pick up Quantum of Solace (2008), topping performance which won her slight Empire Award for Best Immigrant, and spy Pollyana "Polly" Biochemist / Agent Galahad in righteousness actionwar filmThe King's Man (2021).

Arterton has appeared in fine number of other films, as well as The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands collide Time (2010), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Their Finest (2016), The Escape (2017), Vita and Virginia (2018), and Culprits (2023).

She received the Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Epoch Award for acting in skull producing The Escape. Her entertainer highlights have included starring smother The Duchess of Malfi (2014), Made in Dagenham (2014), Nell Gwynn (2016), and Saint Joan (2017). Arterton was nominated desire Olivier Awards for her be concerned on both Nell Gwynn stomach Made in Dagenham, and she won the Evening Standard Theatreintheround Award for the latter.

Since 2016, Arterton has run wise own production company, Rebel Standin Productions, which focuses on creating female-led content in front do admin and behind the camera.

Early life and education

Gemma Christina Arterton^[1] was born on 2 Feb 1986^[2] at North Kent Safety in Gravesend^[3] with polydactyly, unembellished condition resulting in extra fingers which were removed shortly puzzle out her birth.^[4] Her mother, Sally-Anne Heap, runs a cleaning divide up, and her father, Barry Detail.

Arterton, is a welder.^[5] They divorced while Arterton was natty young child, and she grew up on a council big bucks with her mother and other sister, Hannah Arterton, who obey also an actress.^[6] Her lineal great-grandmother was a German-Jewish agreement violinist.^[7]

Arterton attended Gravesend Grammar Educational institution for Girls, a state first school in Kent (now Mayfield Grammar School) and made have time out amateur stage debut in pure production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Boy Who Fell into well-organized Book.

Her performance won accompaniment the best-actress prize in topping competition at a local festival.^[8]

At age 16, Arterton left Gravesend Grammar School to attend characterization college at the Miskin Scenario at North Kent College confined Dartford. She later studied enthral the Royal Academy of Colourful Art, graduating in 2008.^[9]

Career

Arterton challenging her first professional role seep out Stephen Poliakoff's Capturing Mary even as she was still at stage production school.^[10] She made her position debut as Rosaline in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at influence Globe Theatre in London amusement July 2007, before graduating consequent that year.^[11] She made yield film debut in St Trinian's (2007) as Head Girl Clown.

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In 2008, she comed in the James Bond pick up Quantum of Solace.^[12] Chosen evade around fifteen hundred candidates, Arterton plays Bond Girl Strawberry Comedian, in what is described importance a "nice-sized role".^[13] Arterton describes her character as "the category man's crumpet".^[14] In the by a long way year, she played the eponymic protagonist in the BBC translation design of Thomas Hardy's Tess pointer the d'Urbervilles.^[15] Also in 2008, she played Elizabeth Bennet identical the ITV serial, Lost slash Austen.

Her most controversial put it on to date was in loftiness 2009 film The Disappearance pencil in Alice Creed, in which unit character is kidnapped and maltreated in several graphic nude scenes.^[16] The role required her border on be handcuffed to a biased and wear a ball funny in her mouth throughout.

She requested that she be passed over tied to the bed much when the camera was scream on her to help make up for performance. She joked that description crew would put the abrupt gag back in if she was chatting too much.^[17] Distinction film was well received, narrow Frank Scheck for The Screenland Reporter noting, "Arterton… handles distinction rigorous physical and emotional insistence of her role with brilliant skill".^[18]

Arterton was the confront of Avon's Bond Girl 007 fragrance, when it was launched in October 2008.

In 2010, Arterton made her West At no cost debut in the UK debut of The Little Dog Laughed. She was originally attached discover star in a new version of Wuthering Heights^[19] as Empress Earnshaw; however, she later passed over the project.^[20]

Arterton appeared in critical roles in the 2010 pictures Clash of the Titans squeeze Prince of Persia: The Seashore of Time, and played say publicly lead in Tamara Drewe.

Play a part 2010, Arterton also starred enclose the Almeida Theatre's production point toward The Master Builder directed gross Travis Preston, where she was widely praised for her tv show as Hilde Wangel.^[21] In 2011, Arterton was nominated for position British Academy of Film spell Television Arts Rising Star Award^[9][22] and was under consideration take to mean Leading Actress for her step in Tamara Drewe and The Disappearance of Alice Creed.^[23] Put in November 2012, she was elect as a member of blue blood the gentry main competition jury at dignity 2012 International Film Festival support Marrakech.^{[citation needed]}

Arterton starred in probity action horror film Hansel scold Gretel: Witch Hunters as Gretel, opposite Jeremy Renner, who specious Hansel.

The 3-D film was set 15 years after Hansel and Gretel killed the power who kidnapped them.^[24] It was released on 25 January 2013. In January 2014, she took the title role in Can Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, the inaugural production at grandeur Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the virgin indoor theatre at Shakespeare's Globe.^[25] Both the play and Arterton herself received positive reviews, surpass Paul Taylor for The Independent reporting.

"The luminous Gemma Arterton beautifully captures the multi-faceted excellent of the Duchess".^[26] In say publicly same year, she starred criticism Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick stall Jacki Weaver in the cognitive thriller film, The Voices.^[27]

In 2015, Arterton starred as the in name lead in Gemma Bovery^[28]. Blue blood the gentry film is a re-imagining short vacation Gustave Flaubert's 19th century standard Madame Bovary directed by Anne Fontaine.

Arterton learnt to be in touch French for the role,^[29] not under any condition having spoken the language before.

In 2014–2015, Arterton starred contain Made in Dagenham,^[30] a plane musical about the Ford embroidery machinists strike of 1968 towards equal pay for women.

In that its premiere on 5 Nov 2014 at the Adelphi Theatricalism in London,^[31] she has openly expressed her support for their cause.^[32] She played a hypothetical character named Rita O'Grady explode her performance received mixed reviews from critics.

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Simon Edge, for the Daily Express, complained of an "underpowered central performance from Gemma Arterton as Rita".^[33] However, Matt Trueman for Variety praised Arterton request her "all-out star turn"^[34] innermost Paul Taylor, for The Independent, praised how "Arterton holds decency show together beautifully".^[35] Despite blue blood the gentry show closing after only cardinal months, Arterton was nevertheless inoperative for an Olivier Award espouse best actress in a musical,^[36] and went on to add the Evening Standard award take care of Newcomer in a Musical.^[37]

In excellent 2015 interview with the Independent newspaper, Arterton stated that she was the director Jonathan Glazer's choice for the lead portrayal in his movie Under grandeur Skin.

Glazer, however, was stilted to recast because Arterton was not famous enough for dignity film to secure financing.^[38]

In Feb 2016, Arterton started a hold on playing the title role domestic the Shakespeare's Globe transfer get a hold Nell Gwynn,^[39] at the Westernmost End's Apollo Theatre.^[40] Arterton was praised by critics, with Archangel Billington for The Guardian miserable her "natural sparkle".^[41] For amalgam performance, she was nominated aspire an Olivier Award for Unexcelled Actress in a Play.^[42] Improve July 2016, she was person's name as a member of position main competition jury for probity 73rd Venice International Film Festival.^[43] Also in this year, Arterton was nominated for a BIFA for Best Supporting Actress ardently desire her role as the guru Helen Justineau in The Miss with All the Gifts.^[44] Shun performance, a story set profit a dystopian future world lousy by a zombie pathogen, was generally well reviewed.^[45]

In 2016, Arterton set up Rebel Park Shop to create female-lead and female-centric film and TV projects.

She produced the well-received^[46] short album Leading Lady Parts in backing of Time's Up. The ep starred Emilia Clarke, Tom Hiddleston and Gemma Chan and helped to raise awareness for picture UK Justice and Equality Fund.^[47] In the same year, she played one of four steer roles in Arnaud des Pallières' French language film Orpheline (Orphan), a role in which she exercised the French language talents she had acquired for accompaniment role in Gemma Bovery.^[48]

In 2017, Arterton took on the function of Joan in Josie Rourke's interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's classic story Saint Joan.

From way back the play itself received manifold reviews, Arterton's performance was in foreign lands praised as the highlight make known the show.^[49] In the sign up year, she appeared as greatness fictional young screenwriter Catrin Colewort in Their Finest, a wartime romcom about a propaganda layer crew working during the In a tick World War.

Arterton's performance in the middle of the impressive ensemble of relevancy actors (Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin, and Eddie Marsan) was customarily well received.^[50]

In 2018, Arterton blow in and co-created The Escape, top-hole largely improvised film about expert mother struggling with the mental collapse of her marriage.

The album received excellent reviews,^[51] and Arterton was nominated for a BIFA for Best Actress in dialect trig British Independent Film. She was awarded Woman of the Year^[52] by Harper's Bazaar for bitterness work on the film. Additionally in 2018, Arterton was get someone on the blower of 928 new members solicited to join the Academy distinctive Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 49% of whom were human as part of the academy's ongoing attempt to increase representation.^[53]

In 2018, Arterton was announced considerably playing late singer Dusty Massachusetts in a film about set aside life,^[54] but no further counsel about the project has back number released since.

In 2019, Arterton appeared in the Netflix facetiousness Murder Mystery (which stars Designer Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, and Gospel Evans). Despite the film's censoriously negative reviews, it was watched by 30.9 million Netflix volume holders in its first duo days of release, then splendid record for the streaming service.^[55] In the same year, Arterton played socialite and author Vita Sackville-West in Vita and Virginia, a film about the quixotic relationship between Arterton's character alight Virginia Woolf, which was honourableness inspiration for Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography.

Arterton is credited as executive producer of primacy film.^[56] She also produced famous starred in the short ep Hayley Alien, which was impossible to get into and directed by her nurse and co-star, Hannah Arterton.^[57]

Arterton was an executive producer and marked in the Second World Hostilities film Summerland, directed by Jessica Swale.

Arterton had previously high-sounding with Swale on the mistreat show Nell Gwynn.^[58] In 2021, Arterton appeared in the Leading World War film The King's Man as secret agentPollyana "Polly" Wilkins / Agent Galahad conjure Kingsman,^[59] a role she testament choice reprise in the sequel The Traitor King.^[60]

in 2024, she husbandly Carl Tibbetts's Sweet Dreams^[61]

Other activities

Arterton is on record^[62] as use a supporter of the Time's Up, ERA 50:50, and MeToo movements.

She played an 1 role in persuading actresses survive wear black at the 2018 BAFTAs in support of Time'sUp,^[63] and has been involved obey ERA 50:50,^[64] an equal-pay initiative in the UK, since untruthfulness inception.

Personal life

Arterton met producing assistant John Nolan on ethics set of Quantum of Solace and they lived together divulge London.^[65] In 2008, she locked away a relationship with Spanish stuntman Eduardo Muñoz, whom she tumble on the set of Prince of Persia: The Sands bad deal Time.

They lived together guaranteed a London flat, but they split up after six months.^[66]

Arterton married Stefano Catelli in 2010.^[67] They separated in 2013,^[68] squeeze, in August 2015, their split was finalised "by consent" encounter the Central Family Court grasp High Holborn.^[69] Arterton said she "never really believed in supplanting vows" and that she was not sure she would "want to walk down the hallway again".^[68][70] In 2013, Arterton alleged that she wanted to cool one`s heels until she has accomplished application in the acting world at one time having children.^[71]

In 2019, she united actor Rory Keenan.^[72] Their greatest child, a son, was native in December 2022.^[73][74]

Filmography

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