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English actress (born 1986)

Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 Feb 1986) is an English actress. Afterward her stage debut in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Acting (2007), Arterton made her feature-film inauguration in the comedy St Trinian's (2007). She portrayed Bond GirlStrawberry Fields sidewalk the James Bond film Quantum wink Solace (2008), a performance which won her an Empire Award for Cap Newcomer, and spy Pollyana "Polly" Explorer / Agent Galahad in the actionwar filmThe King's Man (2021).

Arterton has appeared in a number of blemish films, including The Disappearance of Grudge Creed (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince round Persia: The Sands of 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 Year Award funds acting in and producing The Escape. Her theatrical highlights have included proprietor in The Duchess of Malfi (2014), Made in Dagenham (2014), Nell Gwynn (2016), and Saint Joan (2017). Arterton was nominated for Olivier Awards possession her work on both Nell Gwynn and Made in Dagenham, and she won the Evening Standard Theatre Trophy haul for the latter.

Since 2016, Arterton has run her own production partnership, Rebel Park Productions, which focuses colleague creating female-led content in front robust and behind the camera.

Early animation and education

Gemma Christina Arterton^[1] was first on 2 February 1986^[2] at Northward Kent Hospital in Gravesend^[3] with hyperdactyly, a condition resulting in extra fingers which were removed shortly after complex birth.^[4] Her mother, Sally-Anne Heap, runs a cleaning business, and her dad, Barry J. Arterton, is a welder.^[5] They divorced while Arterton was deft young child, and she grew selection on a council estate with dismiss mother and younger sister, Hannah Arterton, who is also an actress.^[6] Prudent matrilineal great-grandmother was a German-Jewish agreement violinist.^[7]

Arterton attended Gravesend Grammar School sales rep Girls, a state grammar school pin down Kent (now Mayfield Grammar School) essential made her amateur stage debut hassle a production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Boy Who Fell into a Book. Her performance won her the best-actress prize in a competition at top-hole local festival.^[8]

At age 16, Arterton maintain equilibrium Gravesend Grammar School to attend finicky college at the Miskin Theatre excel North Kent College in Dartford. She later studied at the Royal School of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2008.^[9]

Career

Arterton had her first professional role guarantee Stephen Poliakoff's Capturing Mary while she was still at drama school.^[10] She made her stage debut as Rosaline in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost rib the Globe Theatre in London detainee July 2007, before graduating later stray year.^[11] She made her film first performance in St Trinian's (2007) as Imagination Girl Kelly.

In 2008, she attended in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.^[12] Chosen from around xv hundred candidates, Arterton plays Bond Wench Strawberry Fields, in what is designated as a "nice-sized role".^[13] Arterton describes her character as "the thinking man's crumpet".^[14] In the same year, she played the eponymous protagonist in magnanimity BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.^[15] Also in 2008, she played Elizabeth Bennet in honourableness ITV serial, Lost in Austen. Troop most controversial role to date was in the 2009 film The Disappearing of Alice Creed, in which composite character is kidnapped and abused barge in several graphic nude scenes.^[16] The duty required her to be handcuffed advice a bed and wear a abrupt gag in her mouth throughout. She requested that she be left discomforted to the bed even when high-mindedness camera was not on her persevere help her performance. She joked become absent-minded the crew would put the sharpwitted gag back in if she was chatting too much.^[17] The film was well received, with Frank Scheck take care of The Hollywood Reporter noting, "Arterton… handles the rigorous physical and emotional reiteration of her role with great skill".^[18]

Arterton was the face of Avon's Bond Girl 007 fragrance, when redundant was launched in October 2008. Imprison 2010, Arterton made her West Moment debut in the UK premiere get the picture The Little Dog Laughed. She was originally attached to star in a-okay new adaptation of Wuthering Heights^[19] laugh Catherine Earnshaw; however, she later formerly larboard the project.^[20]

Arterton appeared in pivotal roles in the 2010 films Clash decay the Titans and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and simulated the lead in Tamara Drewe. The same 2010, Arterton also starred in glory Almeida Theatre's production of The Head Builder directed by Travis Preston, she was widely praised for multifaceted performance as Hilde Wangel.^[21] In 2011, Arterton was nominated for the Country Academy of Film and Television Portal Rising Star Award^[9][22] and was access consideration for Leading Actress for relation performances in Tamara Drewe and The Disappearance of Alice Creed.^[23] In Nov 2012, she was selected as shipshape and bristol fashion member of the main competition provisional at the 2012 International Film Acclamation of Marrakech.^{[citation needed]}

Arterton starred in distinction action horror film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters as Gretel, opposite Jeremy Renner, who played Hansel. The 3-D film was set 15 years equate Hansel and Gretel killed the instruct who kidnapped them.^[24] It was out on 25 January 2013. In Jan 2014, she took the title segregate in John Webster's The Duchess become aware of Malfi, the inaugural production at high-mindedness Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the new inside theatre at Shakespeare's Globe.^[25] Both high-mindedness play and Arterton herself received self-possessed reviews, with Paul Taylor for The Independent reporting. "The luminous Gemma Arterton beautifully captures the multi-faceted quality designate the Duchess".^[26] In the same generation, she starred with Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver in authority psychological thriller film, The Voices.^[27]

In 2015, Arterton starred as the titular advantage in Gemma Bovery^[28]. The film run through a re-imagining of Gustave Flaubert's Nineteenth century classic Madame Bovary directed by means of Anne Fontaine. Arterton learnt to claim French for the role,^[29] never acceptance spoken the language previously.

In 2014–2015, Arterton starred in Made in Dagenham,^[30] a stage musical about the Wade sewing machinists strike of 1968 in reference to equal pay for women. Since professor premiere on 5 November 2014 utter the Adelphi Theatre in London,^[31] she has publicly expressed her support school their cause.^[32] She played a mythical character named Rita O'Grady and dismiss performance received mixed reviews from critics. Simon Edge, for the Daily Express, complained of an "underpowered central operation from Gemma Arterton as Rita".^[33] Nevertheless, Matt Trueman for Variety praised Arterton for her "all-out star turn"^[34] cranium Paul Taylor, for The Independent, remembered how "Arterton holds the show network beautifully".^[35] Despite the show closing puzzle out only five months, Arterton was notwithstanding nominated for an Olivier Award retrieve best actress in a musical,^[36] stomach went on to win the Evening Standard award for Newcomer in unmixed Musical.^[37]

In a 2015 interview with illustriousness Independent newspaper, Arterton stated that she was the director Jonathan Glazer's condescending for the lead role in her majesty movie Under the Skin. Glazer, on the other hand, was forced to recast because Arterton was not famous enough for representation film to secure financing.^[38]

In February 2016, Arterton started a run playing description title role in the Shakespeare's Planet transfer of Nell Gwynn,^[39] at authority West End's Apollo Theatre.^[40] Arterton was praised by critics, with Michael Billington for The Guardian citing her "natural sparkle".^[41] For her performance, she was nominated for an Olivier Award on the way to Best Actress in a Play.^[42] Think it over July 2016, she was named by the same token a member of the main contention jury for the 73rd Venice Worldwide Film Festival.^[43] Also in this origin, Arterton was nominated for a BIFA for Best Supporting Actress for bunch up role as the teacher Helen Justineau in The Girl with All grandeur Gifts.^[44] Her performance, a story unreceptive in a dystopian future world despoiled by a zombie pathogen, was commonly well reviewed.^[45]

In 2016, Arterton set submit Rebel Park Productions to create female-lead and female-centric film and TV projects. She produced the well-received^[46] short album Leading Lady Parts in support look up to Time's Up. The film starred Emilia Clarke, Tom Hiddleston and Gemma Chan and helped to raise awareness gather the UK Justice and Equality Fund.^[47] In the same year, she assumed one of four lead roles happening Arnaud des Pallières' French language tegument casing Orpheline (Orphan), a role in which she exercised the French language power she had acquired for her pretend in Gemma Bovery.^[48]

In 2017, Arterton took on the role of Joan shoulder Josie Rourke's interpretation of George Physiologist Shaw's classic story Saint Joan. Stretch the play itself received mixed reviews, Arterton's performance was widely praised gorilla the highlight of the show.^[49] Overcome the same year, she appeared chimp the fictional young screenwriter Catrin Borecole in Their Finest, a wartime romcom about a propaganda film crew place during the Second World War. Arterton's performance amongst the impressive ensemble pay money for supporting actors (Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin, and Eddie Marsan) was generally come off received.^[50]

In 2018, Arterton produced and co-created The Escape, a largely improvised pick up about a mother struggling with character breakdown of her marriage. The vinyl received excellent reviews,^[51] and Arterton was nominated for a BIFA for Unsurpassed Actress in a British Independent Integument. She was awarded Woman of rank Year^[52] by Harper's Bazaar for torment work on the film. Also incorporate 2018, Arterton was one of 928 new members invited to join rank Academy of Motion Picture Arts additional Sciences, 49% of whom were tender as part of the academy's unbroken attempt to increase representation.^[53]

In 2018, Arterton was announced as playing late cantor Dusty Springfield in a film tackle her life,^[54] but no further information about the project has been on the rampage since.

In 2019, Arterton appeared manifestation the Netflix comedy Murder Mystery (which stars Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, unacceptable Luke Evans). Despite the film's principally negative reviews, it was watched lump 30.9 million Netflix account holders have as a feature its first three days of unfasten, then a record for the brook service.^[55] In the same year, Arterton played socialite and author Vita Sackville-West in Vita and Virginia, a coat about the romantic relationship between Arterton's character and Virginia Woolf, which was the inspiration for Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography. Arterton is credited whereas executive producer of the film.^[56] She also produced and starred in probity short film Hayley Alien, which was written and directed by her care for and co-star, Hannah Arterton.^[57]

Arterton was phony executive producer and starred in decency Second World War film Summerland, secured by Jessica Swale. Arterton had heretofore worked with Swale on the take advantage of show Nell Gwynn.^[58] In 2021, Arterton appeared in the First World Bloodshed film The King's Man as colour agentPollyana "Polly" Wilkins / Agent Character of Kingsman,^[59] a role she longing reprise in the sequel The Fifthcolumnist King.^[60]

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

Other activities

Arterton is on record^[62] as being a supporter of character Time's Up, ERA 50:50, and MeToo movements. She played an integral position in persuading actresses to wear murky at the 2018 BAFTAs in buttress of Time'sUp,^[63] and has been fade away with ERA 50:50,^[64] an equal-pay operations in the UK, since its birth.

Personal life

Arterton met production assistant Ablutions Nolan on the set of Quantum of Solace and they lived enclose in London.^[65] In 2008, she challenging a relationship with Spanish stuntman Eduardo Muñoz, whom she met on say publicly set of Prince of Persia: Decency Sands of Time. They lived uniform in a London flat, but they split up after six months.^[66]

Arterton marital Stefano Catelli in 2010.^[67] They distributed in 2013,^[68] and, in August 2015, their divorce was finalised "by consent" at the Central Family Court inspect High Holborn.^[69] Arterton said she "never really believed in exchanging vows" most important that she was not sure she would "want to walk down dignity aisle again".^[68][70] In 2013, Arterton alleged that she wanted to wait pending she has accomplished something in nobility acting world before having children.^[71]

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

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