(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, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Tamara Drewe. It was later announced that she was nominated for a BAFTA, in the Rising Star category.
Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, the daughter of Sally-Anne (née Heap),a cleaner, and Barry Arterton, a welder.Arterton was born with polydactyly, 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, and 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.
Arterton lived with special effects technician John Nolan until she broke up with him in 2008 after 18 months together.[citation needed] .She had a six month relationship with Spanish equestrian Eduardo Munoz that ended in December 2008. On 5 June 2010, she married Stefano Catelli, a sales manager, at a secret ceremony in Zuheros, Andalucia, Spain.
Arterton is a supporter of Charlton Athletic football club. She has a tattoo of an angel wing behind her left ear.
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