44 Facts About Gemma Arterton

Gemma Christina Arterton was born on 2 February 1986 and is an English actress and producer.

Gemma Arterton portrayed Bond Girl Strawberry Fields in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, a performance which won her an Empire Award for Best Newcomer.

Gemma Arterton received the Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Year Award for acting in and producing The Escape.

Gemma Arterton was nominated for Olivier Awards for her work on both Nell Gwynn and Made in Dagenham, and she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for the latter.

Since 2016, Gemma Arterton has run her own production company, Rebel Park Productions, which focuses on creating female-led content in front of and behind the camera.

Gemma Arterton has executive-produced four feature films and two short films.

Gemma Arterton is on record as being a supporter of the Time's Up, ERA 50:50 and MeToo movements.

Gemma Arterton played an integral role in persuading actresses to wear black at the 2018 BAFTAs in support of Time'sUp, and has been involved with ERA 50:50, an equal pay campaign in the UK, since its inception.

Gemma Arterton was born at North Kent Hospital in Gravesend with polydactyly, a condition resulting in extra fingers which a doctor removed shortly after her birth.

Gemma Arterton's mother, Sally-Anne Heap, runs a cleaning business, and her father, Barry J Arterton, is a welder.

Gemma Arterton's performance won her the best actress prize in a competition at a local festival.

Gemma Arterton later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2008.

Gemma Arterton had her first professional role in Stephen Poliakoff's Capturing Mary while she was still at drama school.

Gemma Arterton made her stage debut as Rosaline in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre in London in July 2007 before graduating later that year.

Gemma Arterton made her film debut in St Trinian's as Head Girl Kelly.

Gemma Arterton requested that she be left tied to the bed even when the camera was not on her to help her performance.

Gemma Arterton joked that the crew would put the ball gag back in if she was chatting too much.

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

In 2010, Gemma Arterton made her West End debut in the UK premiere of The Little Dog Laughed.

Gemma Arterton was originally attached to star in a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights as Catherine Earnshaw; however, she later left the project.

Gemma Arterton appeared in pivotal roles in the 2010 films Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and played the lead in Tamara Drewe.

In 2010 Gemma Arterton starred in the Almeida Theatre's production of The Master Builder directed by Travis Preston, where she was widely praised for her performance as Hilde Wangel.

In 2011, Gemma Arterton was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Rising Star Award and was under consideration for Leading Actress for her performances in Tamara Drewe and The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

Gemma Arterton starred in the action horror film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters as Gretel, opposite Jeremy Renner who played Hansel.

Gemma Arterton learnt to speak French for the role, never having spoken the language previously.

Gemma Arterton played a fictional character named Rita O'Grady and her performance received mixed reviews from critics.

Glazer was forced to recast because Gemma Arterton was not famous enough for the film to secure financing.

In February 2016, Gemma Arterton started a run playing the title role in the Shakespeare's Globe transfer of Nell Gwynn, at the West End's Apollo Theatre.

Gemma Arterton was praised by critics, with Michael Billington for The Guardian citing her "natural sparkle".

Also in this year, Gemma Arterton was nominated for a BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the teacher Helen Justineau in The Girl with All the Gifts.

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

Gemma Arterton produced the well-received short film Leading Lady Parts in support of Time's Up.

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

In 2018, Gemma Arterton produced and co-created The Escape, a largely improvised film about a mother struggling with the breakdown of her marriage.

The film received excellent reviews and Gemma Arterton was nominated for a BIFA award for Best Actress in a British Independent Film.

Gemma Arterton was awarded Woman of the Year by Harper's Bazaar magazine for her work on the film.

In 2019, Gemma Arterton appeared in the Netflix comedy Murder Mystery.

Gemma Arterton produced and starred in the short film Hayley Alien, which was written and directed by her sister and co-star, Hannah Arterton.

Gemma Arterton was an executive producer and starred in the Second World War film, Summerland, directed by Jessica Swale.

Gemma Arterton had previously worked with Swale on the stage show Nell Gwynn.

Gemma Arterton met production assistant John Nolan on the set of Quantum of Solace and they lived together in London.

Gemma Arterton married Stefano Catelli in 2010; however, they separated in 2013, and, in August 2015, their divorce was finalised "by consent" at the Central Family Court in High Holborn.

Gemma Arterton said she "never really believed in exchanging vows" and that she was not sure she would "want to walk down the aisle again".

In 2013, Gemma Arterton stated that she wanted to wait until she has accomplished something in the acting world before having children.