Gemma Christina Arterton (born 12 January 1986)is an English actress. She played the eponymous protagonist in the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles,and starred in the feature films St Trinian's, the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Tamara Drewe.
Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, the daughter of Sally-Anne (née Heap),a cleaner, and Barry Arterton, a welder.Arterton was born with polydactyl,and was brought up, along with her sister, Hannah Jane (born 1989, Gravesend), by their single mother on a council estate in Gravesend.Arterton's parents divorced when she was five; her father remarried in 1996.Arterton worked as a makeup salesgirl.After attending Gravesend Grammar School for Girls on Pelham Road in Gravesend,she took a performance arts course at The Miskin Theatre in Dartford (part of North West Kent College) and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on a full grant.
Birth name: Gemma Christina Arterton
Born: January, 1986 (age 24)
Birth place: Gravesend, Kent, England
Nationality: BritishHeight: 5’7” (1.70 m)
Hair: Brunette
Eyes: BrownInterests: music, dance, guitar, drawing, painting, clothes and jewellery
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Arterton
