Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko[a][b] (born 14 November 1979)[1][2] is a Ukrainian and French actress and former model. She rose to prominence by playing the Bond girlCamille Montes in theJames Bond filmQuantum of Solace (2008).
Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko[3] was born on 14 November 1979 inBerdyansk, a port city inZaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.[1]Ukraine was aconstituent republic of theSoviet Union at the time of her birth. Kurylenko's father, Konstantin Kurylenko, isUkrainian. Her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, teaches art and is an exhibited artist. Marina's father was aRussian factory worker, and her mother, Raisa, was aBelarusian doctor. Marina and Konstantin divorced when Kurylenko was three years old. Growing up poor, Kurylenko lived in a small house with her maternal grandparents, Marina[4][5][6][7] and their relatives.[8] She rarely had contact with Konstantin, meeting him for the first time after the split at the age of eight and later at the age of thirteen.[2][9]
Kurylenko moved to Moscow at age 15. At age 16, she moved to Paris.[10] In 1996, Kurylenko signed a contract with the Paris-based Madison modelling agency where she met her publicist Valérie Rosen.[11] The following year, by the age of 18, she had appeared on the covers ofVogue andElle magazines.[12] While working as a model in Paris, Kurylenko supported her mother in Ukraine.[13]
One of her first acting appearances was inSeal's music video, "Love's Divine" in 2003,[17] but her film career truly began in France in 2004 when she shot her first feature film,The Ring Finger,[18] for which she received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance. She next starred in theParis, je t'aime (2006) segmentQuartier de la Madeleine oppositeElijah Wood. That same year, she was selected to be the face of Kenzo's new fragrance,Kenzo Amour.[19] She has appeared in all subsequentKenzo Amour advertisements.[citation needed]
Kurylenko quit modelling in 2006, after more than ten years of working in the industry and moved on to acting.[18] In 2007, she starred inHitman alongsideTimothy Olyphant. She had a minor role inMax Payne as Natasha.
She playedBond girlCamille Montes in the 2008James Bond film,Quantum of Solace (after beating outGal Gadot in the auditions).[20] In the film she plays the role of Bolivian Secret Service agentCamille Montes, who teams up with Bond to stop aterrorist organization and avenge the death of her parents.[21][22] Russian politicianSergey Malinkovich wrote an open letter to Kurylenko.[23] In it he said: "In the name of all communists we appeal to you ... deserter of Slavic world. The Soviet Union gave you free education, free medical care but nobody knew you would commit an act of intellectual and moral betrayal and become a movie girl of Bond, who in his movies kills hundreds of Soviet people and citizens of other socialist countries."[23]
She was featured on the cover of the December 2008 issue of the US edition ofMaxim magazine[24] and on the cover of the February 2009 issue of the Ukrainian edition ofMaxim.[25] In Ukraine the mayor ofBerdyansk suggested naming a street after her in early 2008,[citation needed] and she and her mother met Ukraine'sFirst LadyKateryna Yushchenko in PresidentVictor Yushchenko's family country house.[11][12]
Kurylenko acquired French citizenship in 2001,[33] which she called "a practical decision" because it was easier to travel with a French passport without a visa, as opposed to travelling with a Ukrainian passport.[8] In 2000, Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric van Mol, whom she divorced four years later.[34] In 2006, Kurylenko married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle, whom she divorced the next year.[35] She moved to London in 2009.[36][37][38] Kurylenko has a son[4] with her former partner, English actor and writerMax Benitz, whom she met in 2014.[5][39]
^abАлябушева, Марина (18 January 2008)."Новую подругу Бонда нашли в московском метро" [Bond's new girlfriend found in Moscow subway].Izvestia (in Russian). Interviewed by Соколовской, Янине.Archived from the original on 27 February 2020. Retrieved28 July 2020.
^"Sentinelle".Netflix.Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved5 February 2021.
^Jo Ji-young (23 February 2022)."[공식] 유연석X올가 쿠릴렌코 韓·佛 프로젝트 '배니싱', 3월 개봉 확정" [[Official] Yoo Yeon-seok X Olga Kurylenko Korean-French project 'Banishing' confirmed for release in March] (in Korean). Sports Chosun.Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved23 February 2022 – via Naver.
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