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Olga Kurylenko Ольга Куриленко
Kurylenko during a Ford Ka presentation in Paris, October 2008
Birth name	Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko
Date of birth	14 November 1979 (1979-11-14) (age 30)1
Place of birth	Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)2
Hair color	Dark brown
Eye color	Green
Measurements	34B-23-35
Dress size	4 (US)

Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (Ukrainian: Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко; born November 14, 1979) is an actress and model. She is perhaps best known as the Bond girl, Camille Montes, in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. She also portrayed Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman. Born in Ukraine, she became a French citizen in 2001.³

Early life and background

Olga Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukraine. Her father, Kostyantyn Kurylenko, is Ukrainian and her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, is an art teacher of Russian and Belarusian descent who was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.⁴⁵⁶

She grew up poor; she shared an apartment with her aunt and uncle, grandparents, and cousin. She never had any fancy clothes, often wearing hand-me-downs and re-sewing torn sweaters instead of buying new ones. "I couldn't have anything, basically," she has said of her childhood. "I couldn't have any clothes I wanted, shoes, beds, clothes for school — because my mum couldn't buy them."⁷

When Kurylenko was three years old, her parents divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother. Kurylenko rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time when she was eight years old, and later again when she was 13.⁴⁸

Career

Kurylenko was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of 13.⁹ When she was 17, she signed a contract with the Paris-based Madison modeling agency.¹⁰ By the age of 18, she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle.¹¹ While working as a model in Paris, Kurylenko supported her mother back home in Ukraine.¹²

She also appeared on the covers of Madame Figaro and Marie Claire.¹³

Also, she became the face of Lejaby lingerie, bebe, Clarins, and Helena Rubinstein.¹⁴ Furthermore, she modelled for Roberto Cavalli and Kenzo,¹⁵ and briefly appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog.

In 2005, Kurylenko began her film career in France. 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. That same year, she was selected to be the face of Kenzo's new fragrance, Kenzo Amour. She has appeared in all subsequent Kenzo Amour ads. In 2007, Kurylenko starred in Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant, in which she did a full nude scene. She played Bond girl Camille Montes in the 2008 James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.¹⁶ The film was released in the United States on her 29th birthday.

Kurylenko was featured on the cover of the December 2008 issue of the US edition of Maxim¹⁷ and on the cover of the February 2009 issue of the Ukrainian edition of Maxim magazine.¹⁸

The fact that she is the first Bond girl from a post-Soviet state received mixed reactions in post-Soviet countries. The Saint Petersburg based Communist group KPLO has accused her of "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the Soviet people" (meaning James Bond)¹⁹²⁰ (Kurylenko considered that a PR move²¹), but the mayor of Berdyansk has suggested naming a street after her²² and Kurylenko and her mother²³ met Ukraine's First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko in President Yushchenko's family country house.¹⁰¹¹

Personal life

In 2000, Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric van Mol,²⁴²⁵ but the couple divorced four years later. In 2006, she married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle.⁹ They divorced in late 2007.²⁶ Kurylenko lived in Paris since leaving Ukraine in 1996 to pursue her modeling career⁸ but moved to London in 2009 ²¹. In 2001, she was granted French citizenship.³

In a October 2009 chat session with Komsomolskaya Pravda Ukraine she unveiled that she is not intending to move back to Ukraine, neither is she intended to remarry.²¹

Kurylenko speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, French, Spanish and can understand Italian.²¹

Filmography

• L'Annulaire (2005)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006)
• Le Porte-bonheur (2006) (TV)
• The Serpent (2006)
• Suspectes (2007) (TV mini-series)
• Hitman (2007)
• Max Payne (2008)
• Tyranny (2008)
• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• Kirot (2009)
• Centurion (2009)
• The Cross (2010)
• There Be Dragons (2010)

References

External links

• Olga Kurylenko at the Internet Movie Database
• Olga Kurylenko at Fashion Model Directory
• Trailers - Bio and Pictures of Olga Kurylenko
• Photos of Olga Kurylenko
• News of Olga Kurylenko
• Biography of Olga Kurylenko(Spanish)
• Olga Kurylenko as the face of Kenzo Amour