Olga Kurylenko

 ( 1979 Births ) 

Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian and French actress and former model. She rose to prominence by playing the Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008).

Kurylenko began her career modelling in Paris before making a transition to acting. She had her breakthrough role in the action thriller Hitman (2007) after making her film debut in the drama The Ring Finger (2005). Following Quantum of Solace, she went on to star in the romantic drama To the Wonder (2012), the crime comedy Seven Psychopaths (2012), the science fiction film Oblivion (2013), the political satire The Death of Stalin (2017), the comedy The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), the superhero films Black Widow (2021) and Thunderbolts* (2025), the Netflix spy thriller miniseries Treason (2022) and the action thriller Extraction 2 (2023).

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Early life Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko was born on 14 November 1979 in Berdyansk, a port city in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine. Ukraine was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union at the time. Kurylenko's father, Konstantin Kurylenko, is Ukrainians. Her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, teaches art and is an exhibited artist. Marina's father was a Russians factory worker, and her mother, Raisa, was a Belarusians 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 and their relatives. Kurylenko 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.

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Career Kurylenko moved to Moscow at age 15. At age 16, she moved to Paris. In 1996, Kurylenko signed a contract with the Paris-based Madison modelling agency where she met her publicist Valérie Rosen. Kateryna Yushchenko Meets with Actress Olga Kurylenko | Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund . Ukraine3000.org.ua (10 October 2008). Retrieved 4 September 2011. The following year, by the age of 18, she had appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle magazines. While working as a model in Paris, Kurylenko supported her mother in Ukraine.

She also appeared on the covers of Le Figaro and Marie Claire magazines. Olga Kurylenko Zone – Devoted to model actress Olga Kurylenko with the latest wallpapers news photos and videos . Kurylenko-olga.com. Retrieved 4 September 2011. She became the face of brands Bebe stores, Clarins, and Helena Rubinstein. She has also modelled for Roberto Cavalli and Kenzo Takada Olga Kurylenko Profile on FMD – Olga Kurylenko pictures / images . Fashionmodeldirectory.com. Retrieved 4 September 2011. and appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalogue. In 1998, she features in the music video of French Raï style singer Faudel called "Tellement Je T'aime".

One of her first acting appearances was in Seal's music video, "Love's Divine" in 2003, but her film career truly began in France in 2004 when she shot her first feature film, The Ring Finger, for which she received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance. She next starred in the Paris, je t'aime (2006) 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 advertisements.

Kurylenko quit modelling in 2006, after more than ten years of working in the industry and moved on to acting. In 2007, she 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 (after beating out Gal Gadot in the auditions). In the film she plays the role of Bolivian Secret Service agent Camille Montes, who teams up with Bond to stop a terrorist organization and avenge the death of her parents. The Bond Girl Olga Kuryelenko on . Thebondgirls.info. Retrieved 4 September 2011. Russian politician Sergey Malinkovich wrote an open letter to Kurylenko. 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."

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

Kurylenko appeared in Terrence Malick's romantic drama film To the Wonder starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams. The film was shot in the fall of 2010 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She also appeared in Oblivion, a science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski. Kurylenko played Alice Fournier in the spy thriller November Man. In 2014, Kurylenko starred in the historical drama film The Water Diviner alongside Russell Crowe (who made his directorial debut), Jacqueline McKenzie and Jai Courtney. She also played the headmistress in Vampire Academy. She later acted in films such as Momentum, Mara and The Bay of Silence.

In 2017, she appeared in Armando Iannucci's political satire film The Death of Stalin as the Soviet pianist Maria Yudina. The film was a critical success and starred Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, and Jeffrey Tambor. The following year she starred in Terry Gilliam's epic adventure film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce where it premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. She also appeared as Baroness Roxane de Giverny in The Emperor of Paris, and as the Russian spy in the Rowan Atkinson led comedy film Johnny English Strikes Again (2018).

In 2021, she starred in the action thriller film Sentinelle. In the same year, she played Antonia Dreykov in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Black Widow. In October, she was cast in comedy heist film High Heat alongside Don Johnson.

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Personal life Kurylenko acquired French citizenship in 2001, 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. In 2000, Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric van Mol, whom she divorced four years later. In 2006, Kurylenko married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle, whom she divorced the next year. She moved to London in 2009. Ольга Куриленко: Из окна своей квартиры я вижу Эйфелеву башню , Komsomolskaya Pravda Ukraine (23 October 2009) Kurylenko has a son with her former partner, English actor and writer Max Benitz, whom she met in 2014.

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Filmography

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Film

2005	The Ring Finger	Iris	Diane Bertrand
2006	Paris, je t'aime	The Vampire	Vincenzo Natali	Segment: Quartier de la Madeleine
	The Serpent	Sofia	Éric Barbier
2007	Hitman	Nika Boronina	Xavier Gens
2008	À l'est de moi	The Russian prostitute	Bojena Horackova
	Max Payne	Natasha Sax	John Moore
	Quantum of Solace	Camille Montes	Marc Forster
2009	The Assassin Next Door	Galia	Danny Lerner
2010	Centurion	Etain	Neil Marshall
2011	There Be Dragons	Ildiko	Roland Joffé
	Land of Oblivion	Anya	Michale Boganim	Also executive producer
2012	Erased	Anna Brandt	Philipp Stölzl
	To the Wonder	Marina	Terrence Malick
	Seven Psychopaths	Angela	Martin McDonagh
2013	Oblivion	Julia Rusakova Harper	Joseph Kosinski
2014	Vampire Academy	Ellen Kirova	Mark Waters
	The November Man	Alice Fournier/Mira Filipova	Roger Donaldson
	The Water Diviner	Ayshe	Russell Crowe
2015	A Perfect Day	Katya	Fernando León de Aranoa
	Momentum	Alex Farraday	Stephen S. Campanelli
2016	The Correspondence	Amy	Giuseppe Tornatore
2017	The Death of Stalin	Maria Yudina	Armando Iannucci
	Gun Shy	Sheila	Simon West
2018	Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume)	Anna	Daniel Roby
	The Man Who Killed Don Quixote	Jacqui	Terry Gilliam
	Mara	Kate Fuller	Clive Tonge
	Johnny English Strikes Again	Ophelia	David Kerr
	The Emperor of Paris	Baroness Roxane of Giverny	Jean-François Richet
2019	L'Intervention	Jane Anderson	Fred Grivois
	The Room	Kate	Christian Volckman
	The Courier	The Courier	Zackary Adler
	The Translators	Katerina Anisinova	Rėgis Roinsard
2020	The Bay of Silence	Rosalind	Paula van der Oest
2021	Sentinelle	Klara	Julien Leclercq
	Black Widow	Antonia Dreykov	Cate Shortland
2022	Vanishing	Alice	Denis Dercourt	Korean-French Film
	White Elephant	Vanessa Flynn	Jesse V. Johnson
	The Princess	Kai	Le-Van Kiet
	High Heat	Ana	Zach Golden
2023	Extraction 2	Mia	Sam Hargrave
		Boudica	Jesse V. Johnson
	Paradox Effect	Karina	Scott Weintrob
2024	Chief of Station	Krystyna Kowerski	Jesse V. Johnson
2025	Thunderbolts*	Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster	Jake Schreier
	Fox Hunt	Elsa	Leo Zhang
	Other	Alice	David Moreau
	Afterburn	Drea	J. J. Perry
	Turbulence	Julia	Claudio Fäh
2026	Alter ego	Tatiana Chambon	Nicolas & Bruno
	My Sister's Bones	Dr. Shaw	Heidi Greensmith
	Misdirection	Sara Black	Kevin Lewis
	Empires of the Deep	The Mermaid Queen	Jonathan Lawrence, Michael French, & Scott Miller	Unreleased

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Television

2001	Largo Winch	Carole		TV series (1 Episode : "Contessa Vanessa")
2006	Le porte-bonheur	Sophia	Laurent Dussaux	TV movie
2007	Suspectes	Eva Pirès		TV miniseries (7 episodes)
2010	Tyranny	Mina Harud	John Beck Hofmann	TV series (5 episodes); also writer
2012–2013	Magic City	Vera Evans	Mainly Ed Bianchi and Simon Cellan Jones	TV series (16 episodes)
2014	Mission Control	NASA broadcasting news	Will Ferrell	Episode 13: Go Home
2020	Wonderland, the girl from the shore	Alice	Hervé Hadmar	6 episodes
2022	Treason	Kara Yusova		TV miniseries (5 episodes)
2023	Of Money and Blood	Julia	Xavier Giannoli and Frederic Planchon	TV miniseries
2025	Super Mâles	Léna	Olivier Rosemberg and Noémie Saglio	TV miniseries

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Video game

2008		Camille Montes (voice)

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Awards and nominations

+ List of Olga Kurylenko award nominations and awards won
2005	Brooklyn International Film Festival	Best Actress	The Ring Finger
2008	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actress	Quantum of Solace
2009	Empire Awards	Best Actress	Quantum of Solace
2012	Boston Society of Film Critics Award	Best Cast	Seven Psychopaths
2012	San Diego Film Critics Society Award	Best Performance by an Ensemble	Seven Psychopaths

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Notes

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External links

• Olga Kurylenko instagram

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