27-year-old Gemma Christina Arterton is an English actress that has starred in feature films like Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Tamara Drewe, and most recently in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, scheduled for release January 25, 2013.
In 2008, Arterton had a six-month relationship with Spanish equestrian Eduardo Ivan Muñoz, who met on the set of Prince of Persia.On 5 June 2010, she married Italian Stefano Catelli, a 37-year-old sales manager who works for a British fashion company, at a private ceremony in Spain.
The couple, who had been engaged for a year before the wedding (Catelli proposed at the Download music festival) chose to marry with only a small crowd of friends and family in attendance at a 10th Century castle in the picturesque village of Zuheros in Andalucia, Spain. After the ceremony, the couple were taken away via a vintage convertible.
The bride wore a champagne-colored strapless gown and carried a beautiful bouquet of white roses.
Speaking about their love, Miss Arterton said:
“It was absolutely instant. I remember going home the night after I met him and writing in my diary that I’d met the man I’m going to marry. I gave that diary entry to him for his birthday two weeks later. But it didn’t freak him out, because he was thinking the same thing. I just really want to spend the rest of my life with him. He’s an amazing man.”
The couple lives in London, and there are no children to date. The Telegraph asked whether she plans to have children with Catelli, and she pointed to her pet Shar Pei. “I have my baby here tonight,” she said. “She’s called Purla.”
Gemma Arterton was born 12 January 1986 in Gravesend, Kent. Daughter of Sally, a cleaner, and Barry, a welder father. She attended Gravesend Grammar School for Girls, in Kent, and made her stage debut there in a amateur production of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Boy Who Fell Into a Book. It was entered into a competition at a local festival, where she won the best actress prize. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, RADA, in 2008.
Her breakthrough role came in 2008, when she appeared alongside Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace, earning her the life-long title of Bond Girl.
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