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NAME : Gemma Christina Arterton BORN : 2 February 1986 (age 30) Gravesend, Kent, England HEIGHT : 5' 7" (1.7 m) NATIONALITY : English ETHNICITY :White KNOWN FOR : •Known For Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time •Quantum of Solace •Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters •Clash of the Titans •Their Finest •Orphan •The History of Love •The Girl with All the Gifts •100 Streets •Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em •The Duchess of Malfi •Inside No. 9 •The Voices •Runner Runner •Unfinished Song •Byzantium •It's Getting Late •Astonish Me •Love's Labour's Lost (Globe Theatre Version) •A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures TRIVIA: •Graduated from RADA in 2007. •Raised by a single mother. •The first scene she shot for Quantum of Solace (2008) was the love scene with Daniel Craig. •Clash of the Titans (1981) was one of her childhood favorites, and even though the script was very different from the original, she was eager to star in the remake. •Was in consideration for the role of Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Iron Man 2 (2010) after Emily Blunt dropped out of the project, but Scarlett Johansson was cast instead. •During her time as a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London she worked as a make-up salesgirl. •Auditioned for the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), but Anne Hathaway was cast instead. •A lifelong fan of karaoke, Gemma once worked as a singer in a south London 'gangster bar' where she was frequently instructed to sing "My Heart Will Go On" whenever things got out of hand with the rowdy patrons. •Was born with an extra finger on each hand, a benign condition known as polydactyly, and had the extra digits removed as an infant. The scars from the surgery are virtually unnoticeable today. •Gemma's matrilineal great-grandmother, born Jean Specterman, was Jewish (of Polish Jewish descent). The rest of Gemma's ancestry is English, with more distant German and Scottish.
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