Saturday, October 25, 2008

Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko


Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko is a Ukrainian-born model and actress.She was born in Berdyansk on November 14, 1979 to a Russian mother, Marina Alyabusheva, and a Ukrainian father, Konstantin Kurylenko. When Olga was three years old her parents divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother. Olga did not have contact with her father again until she was thirteen years old.

She was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of thirteen. She began her film career in France in 2005. While studying French, Olga married her best friend, the French fashion photographer Cedric Van Mol, the couple divorced four years later. She married again, to a mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle. She split from Damien Gabrielle in late 2007.

She received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L'Annulaire, and also starred in the Paris, je t'aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood. In 2007, Kurylenko starred in Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant. She will also star as Bond girl Camille in the newest 007 film, Quantum of Solace.

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