Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 February 1986) is an English actress,
activist and film producer. She made her professional stage debut
playing Rosaline in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe
Theatre (2007), and first appeared on film in the comedy St Trinian's
(2007). Her breakthrough role was playing Bond Girl Strawberry Fields
in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace the following year, a
performance which won her an Empire Award for Best Newcomer.Arterton
has since gone on to appear in a number of blockbuster films,
including Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of
Time (2010) and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) as well as
several smaller, arthouse pictures such as The Disappearance of Alice
Creed (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), The Escape (2017) and Vita and
Virginia (2018). She was awarded the Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Year
Award for her work both acting in and producing The Escape. Arterton's
theatrical highlights have included starring in The Duchess of Malfi
(2014), Made in Dagenham (2014), Nell Gwynn (2016) and Saint Joan
(2017). She 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 Arterton has run her own production
company, Rebel Park Productions, which focuses on creating female-led
content both in front of, and behind the camera. She has executive
produced four feature films and two short films. Arterton is also on
record as being a prominent supporter of the Time's Up, ERA 50:50 and
MeToo movements. 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.
activist and film producer. She made her professional stage debut
playing Rosaline in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe
Theatre (2007), and first appeared on film in the comedy St Trinian's
(2007). Her breakthrough role was playing Bond Girl Strawberry Fields
in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace the following year, a
performance which won her an Empire Award for Best Newcomer.Arterton
has since gone on to appear in a number of blockbuster films,
including Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of
Time (2010) and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) as well as
several smaller, arthouse pictures such as The Disappearance of Alice
Creed (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), The Escape (2017) and Vita and
Virginia (2018). She was awarded the Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Year
Award for her work both acting in and producing The Escape. Arterton's
theatrical highlights have included starring in The Duchess of Malfi
(2014), Made in Dagenham (2014), Nell Gwynn (2016) and Saint Joan
(2017). She 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 Arterton has run her own production
company, Rebel Park Productions, which focuses on creating female-led
content both in front of, and behind the camera. She has executive
produced four feature films and two short films. Arterton is also on
record as being a prominent supporter of the Time's Up, ERA 50:50 and
MeToo movements. 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.
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