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Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko

Birthday: 1979-11-14 | Place of Birth: Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine]

Olga Kurylenko was born on November 14, 1979, in Berdyansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her mother, Marina Alyabysheva, divorced her father, Konstantin Kurylenko, soon after her birth. After the divorce, her mother struggled to survive as an art teacher. Young Olga Kurylenko was brought up by her mother and her grandmother, Raisa. During her youth, Olga had a humbling experience of living in poverty; she had no choice but to wear rags and had to darn the holes on her sweater. During the years in Ukraine she studied art, languages, did 7 years of musical school studying piano and went to a ballet studio until 13. At age 13, Olga and her mother made a trip to Moscow. There she was scouted by an agent who approached her at a subway station and offered a job as a model. Initially, Olga's mother was suspicious, but eventually Olga made a good career choice and took training as a model in Moscow. By age 16, she was ready for the next step. She moved to Paris, learned French in six months, and was signed by the Madison agency. At age 18, Olga appeared on the cover of Glamour, then she graced magazine covers of Elle, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Vogue, and also became the face of Lejaby lingerie, Bebe clothing, Clarins and Helena Rubinstein cosmetic companies. In 1999, Olga married her friend, French photographer Cedric Van Mol and divorced him three and a half years later. One day Olga presented herself to an acting agency. Eventually, she swapped the catwalk for celluloid, and her acting career took off. In 2005 she made her film debut as Iris, a sensual beauty in L'annulaire (2005) by director Diane Bertrand. She appeared opposite Elijah Wood in Paris, je t'aime (2006) and as Sofia in Le serpent (2006), then co-starred as Russian beauty Nika Boronina opposite Timothy Olyphant in Hitman (2007/I). She also appears as Mina Harud in the indy surveillance-thriller "Tyranny" (2008) and is billed as Camille, the Bond girl in Quantum of Solace (2008), a sequel to Casino Royale (2006).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Vanishing

as    Alice Launey

2022
The Princess

as    Moira

2022
White Elephant

as    Vanessa Flynn

2021
Black Widow

as    Antonia / Taskmaster

2021
Sentinelle

as    Klara

2020
Wonderland

as    Alice

2020
The Translators

as    Katerina Anisinova

2020
The Bay of Silence

as    Rosalind

2019
2019
15 Minutes of War

as    Jane Andersen

2019
The Room

as    Kate

2019
The Courier

as    The Courier

2018
Mara

as    Kate

2018
Johnny English Strikes Again

as    Ophelia Bhulatova

2018
The Emperor of Paris

as    The Baroness

2017
Gun Shy

as    Sheila

2016
Correspondence

as    Amy

2016
A Perfect Day

as    Katya

2015
Momentum

as    Alexis Farraday

2015
The Water Diviner

as    Ayshe

2014
The November Man

as    Alice Fournier

2014
Vampire Academy

as    Headmistress Kirova

2013
Erased

as    Anna Brandt

2013
Oblivion

as    Julia

2013
To the Wonder

as    Marina

2012
Seven Psychopaths

as    Angela

2012
Magic City

as    Vera Evans

1
The Hunting

as    Ai Ersha