Olga Kurylenko - Quantum of Solace (2008)

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Olga Kurylenko (born 14 November 1979) is a French actress and model. She was discovered as a model at the age of 14 and at the age of 16 moved from Ukraine to Paris to pursue a modelling career. Kurylenko started her acting career in 2005.She found success as an actress for her role as Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman (2007), and then rose to fame by playing Bond girl, Camille Montes, in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008). More recently she starred in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), and alongside Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013).

Early life

Kurylenko was born Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko in Berdyansk, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Her father, Konstantyn, is Ukrainian, and her mother, Maryna Alyabusheva, was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is of Russian and Belarusian ancestry, Her mother teaches art.[3][4][5]
When Kurylenko was three years old her parents divorced, which led to her being raised by her mother. Kurylenko rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time after the split when she was eight years old, and later when she was thirteen.


Kurylenko was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of 13. At the age of 16 she moved from Ukraine to Paris, France. In 1996, she signed a contract with the Paris-based Madison modeling agency.

The following year, by the age of 18, she had appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle. While working as a model in Paris, Kurylenko supported her mother in Ukraine.




She also appeared on the covers of Madame Figaro and Marie Claire. She became the face of brands Bebe, Clarins, and Helena Rubinstein. She has also modeled for Roberto Cavalli and Kenzo and appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog.

Kurylenko's first acting appearance was in Seal's music video, "Love's Divine" in 2003, but her film career began in France during 2005. 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. She had a minor role in Max Payne as Natasha. She played Bond girl Camille Montes in the 2008 James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. In the film she plays the role of a Bolivian Secret Service agent named Camille, who teams up with James Bond to avenge the death of her parents.

She was featured on the cover of the December 2008 issue of the U.S. edition of Maxim magazine and on the cover of the February 2009 issue of the Ukrainian edition of Maxim. In Ukraine the then-mayor of Berdyansk suggested naming a street after her in early 2008, and Kurylenko and her mother met Ukraine's First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko in President Yushchenko's family country house.



Kurylenko appeared in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, shot in fall 2010 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, also starring Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem and Rachel McAdams. She also appeared in Oblivion, a sci-fi project starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski.

Kurylenko played Alice Fournier, who's the main subject of the upcoming spy thriller, November Man, which headlines former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan as a retired CIA operative called Devereaux, whose mission is to protect Fournier and prevent a world-wide conspiracy led by his former protege.



Kurylenko will star as Marie Curie in the Luc Besson-produced biopic RAD, now set for a release in late 2015 after being in development hell since 2011. French rugby player Sébastien Chabal will portray Pierre Curie. Their dynamic has been described as similar to Han Solo and Princess Leia's in The Empire Strikes Back. The film will focus on Marie's discovery of radium and the couple's subsequent escape from German spies trying to steal the secret of the atomic bomb.

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