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Gemma Arterton Biography

She was developed with six fingers on each hand as well as on June 5th 2010 she married her stunt-man fianc in the fairytale ceremony in a Moorish Castle in Andalucia, Spain.

Gemma Arterton wore a flowing strapless white dress and a veil and they also exchanged their vows against a picturesque setting. The couple met within the 007 film “Quantum of Solace” in 2008 when she would have been a Bond Girl and that he was obviously a stuntman.

Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent with polydactyly (an additional digit about the fingers or toes). Her father had it and for that reason did her grandfather. A doctor who delivered her tied off the extra fingers and they also fell off, leaving small scars.

Her parents divorced when she was 5-years old and her father re-married when she was 7-years-old so her single mother brought Gemma and her younger sister Hannah Jane through to a housing estate in Gravesend.

She worked as a make-up sales girl and took a performance arts course at the Miskin Theatre in Dartford, portion of North West Kent College after which it trained for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on a full grant.

Arterton won her first professional role in Stephen Poliakoff’s “Capturing Mary” while she was still being at Drama School, she also made her stage debut as Rosalind in Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” on the Globe Theatre in London in July 2007 before graduating later that year.

Her film debut was in the 2007 St Trinians film when she beat Sienna Miller for the role as Head Girl. The following year she was chosen to be Bond Girl Strawberry Fields in “Quantum of Solace” from 1500 candidates.

She also acted protagonist inside BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s “Tess from the D’Urbervilles”. Her most controversial film role was in “The Disappearance of Alice Creed in 2009″ through which her character was kidnapped and abused in lots of graphic nude scenes.

She was nominated for the BAFTA with this performance and she was nominated again to be with her role in “Tamara Drewe” when she unquestionably leading role.

The film took it’s origin from a weekly comic strip serial by Posy Simmonds published from the Guardian Review section. The strip is predicated upon a modern re-working of Thomas Hardy’s 19th Century novel “Far Through the Madding Crowd.”

The film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010 and won the 2009 Prix de la Critique.

Gemma Arterton is extremely beautiful and prefers to wear minimum make-up as she likes the natural look. She believes an excessive amount of make-up makes her look old, so she frequently visits events without wearing any mascara.