The last couple of years has seen Gemma Arterton rise from theatre actress to star of the big screen.
And 2010 looks set to be the year that could catapult her to serious stardom as she has two blockbuster movies, in the form of Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on the horizon.
This week she is back on the big screen as she joins Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in Louis Leterrier's remake of Clash of the Titans.
The movie is the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world.
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth.
Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny.
The actress takes on the role of Lo, who watches over Perseus.
After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Arterton made her stage debut in 2007 in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre. The same year she also made her television debut in Capturing Mary, a film by Stephen Poliakoff.
But her big break came with St Trinan's with the role of Head Girl Kelly and while it wasn't a critical success it became the highest grossing British independent movie of the last 10 years when it grossed over $12 million.
But it was 2008 that cemented Arterton as a potential star as she juggled both roles in movies and television. She took on the role of Elizabeth Bennet in Lost in Austen and the title role of Tess Durbeyfield in Tess of the d'Urbervilles on TV.
But she has had to be content with smaller roles in movies as she went on to appear in guy Ritchie's RocknRolla and the poorly received British movie Three and Out.
However she joined an exclusive group of women in October last year when she took on the role of Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace as she became a Bond Girl.
She returned to the role of Kelly Jones just before Christmas for St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.
The Prince of Persia is a movie that could, potentially, have franchise written all over it and it could do for Arterton what Pirates of the Caribbean did for Keira Knightley.
Based on the popular computer game the movie kicks off the blockbuster summer in May and will see the actress team up with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Set in medieval Persia, the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons.
In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it's up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time.
But the actress is mixing and matching her roles this year as The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a British movie, is also due out this year.
She is currently working on the Stephen Frears directed movie Tamara Drewe, which also stars Dominic Cooper.
Clash of the Titans is released 2nd April.
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