Olga Kurylenko | |
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Kurylenko at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2015
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Born |
Olga Kostiantinovna Kurylenko 14 November 1979 Berdiansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Residence | London, UK |
Citizenship | French |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1995–present |
Spouse(s) | Cedric van Mol (2000–2004) Damian Gabrielle (2006–2007) |
Partner(s) | Max Benitz |
Children | 1 |
Modeling information | |
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Olga Kostantinovna Kurylenko (Ukrainian: Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко, Russian: Ольга Константиновна Куриленко; born 14 November 1979) is a French actress and model. She was discovered as a model in Moscow at the age of 13. She moved to Paris to pursue a modeling career at the age of 16. 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 Stephen S. Campanelli's Momentum (2015), and Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), and alongside Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013) and Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner (2014).
Kurylenko was born in Berdiansk, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Her father, Konstantin, is Ukrainian, and her mother, Marina Alyabysheva, who teaches art, was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is of Russian and Belarusian ancestry.