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Gemma Christina Arterton born 2 February 1986 is an English actress. Following her stage debut in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre (2007), Arterton made her feature-film debut in the comedy St Trinian's (2007). She portrayed Bond girl Strawberry Fields in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008), for which she received the Empire Award for Best Newcomer, and played spy Poliana "Polly" Wilkins / Agent Galahad in the action war film The King's Man (2021).
Arterton has appeared in numerous other films, including The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Their Finest (2016), The Escape (2017), Vita & Virginia (2018), and Culprits (2023). She received a Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Year Award for starring in and producing The Escape. Her theatrical highlights include starring in The Duchess of Malfi (2014), Made in Dagenham (2014), Nell Gwynn (2016), and Saint Joan (2017)
Since 2016, Arterton has been running her own production company, Rebel Park Productions, which focuses on creating female-led content in front of and behind the camera.
Gemma Christina Arterton was born on 2 February 1986 at North Kent Hospital, Gravesend with polydactyly , a condition which caused extra fingers that were removed soon after birth. Her mother, Sally-Anne Heap, runs a cleaning business and her father, Barry J. Arterton, is a welder. They divorced when Arterton was a young child and she grew up on a council estate with her mother and younger sister, Hannah Arterton , also an actress. Her matrilineal great-grandmother was a German-Jewish concert violinist.
Arterton attended Gravesend Grammar School for Girls, a state grammar school in Kent (now Mayfield Grammar School) and made her amateur stage debut in a production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Boy Who Fell Into a Book. Her performance won her the Best Actress award in a competition at a local festival.
At the age of 16, Arterton left Gravesend Grammar School to attend acting college at the Miskin Theatre at North Kent College in Dartford. She later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 2008.
Arterton met production assistant John Nolan on the set of Quantum of Solace and they began living together in London.In 2008, she had a relationship with Spanish stuntman Eduardo Muñoz, whom she met on the set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. They lived together in a London flat, but separated after six months.
Arterton married Stefano Catelli in 2010. They separated in 2013,and, in August 2015, their divorce was finalised "by consent" at the Central Family Court in High Holborn Arterton said she "never really believed in exchanging vows" and was not sure she "would want to walk down the aisle again". In 2013, Arterton said she wanted to wait until she had achieved something in the acting world before having children.
In 2019, she married actor Rory Keenan. Their first child, a son, was born in December 2022.
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