Olga Kurylenko

Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union on November 14, 1979. She does not have very clear memories of what it was like to live under a totalitarian regime, since the USSR collapsed when she was a child. However, her mother Marina Alyabysheva, who divorced her shortly after Olga was born, did tell her sad stories from that time.

His early years are far from comfortable. Olga shared a flat with several of her relatives, including her mother and her grandparents, and she lived poorly. Which did not stop her from being a good student: she became interested in art and languages, and she learned to play the piano and do ballet. A trip to Moscow when she was 13 years old proved providential. An agent of hers noticed her on the subway and offered her a job as a model. Her mother, a very religious woman – she converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism – was a little suspicious, but in the end she gave her consent, it seemed that her approach was serious and professional, so she began to prepare for practice that profession. At the age of 16, she makes an important decision, to travel to the fashion capital of the world, Paris. There she learned French and got an agent. Two years later the first fruits arrived in the form of covers in magazines such as Elle, Glamor and Vogue. Olga’s trajectory is curious, because she seems traced to that of a compatriot of hers,Milla Jovovich , modeling career, French sojourn, lovesickness, and Hollywood calling for action roles included.

After a marriage of three and a half years with the photographer Cedric Van Mol, she divorced in 2004. The following year she made the move to the big screen, she definitely wanted to be an actress and leave the catwalk. Her beauty is not lacking, and in 2005 she made her debut with a French film, L’annulaire , with a highly erotic content; Curiously, many years later, she refused to do Room in Rome for Julio Medem , due to the tremendous sexual voltage of the film.

In 2006 he will continue his brief intervention in one of the segments of Paris, je t’aime (2006), the one entitled “Quartier de la Madeleine”, directed by Vincenzo Natali . 2007 is the takeoff track of Kurylenko’s acting career. Although it is the year in which she divorces her second husband, Damien Gabrielle -the marriage barely lasts a year-, the fact is that she is unhappy in her love affairs, her work is going to give her some joy . She has a role in the Suspects miniseries and, above all, Hollywood wants her for Hitman , which adapts a video game. She is a Russian villain role, and she is in danger of being typecast, because the following year she is proposed to by Max Payne , where she works with Mark Wahlberg .in a similar but minor role.

As she was also chosen in 2008 as a Bond girl for Quantum of Solace , one fears the worst, more of the same. But her vengeful and Bolivian character is somewhat out of the stereotype of the 007 saga, Kurylenko definitely draws attention.

But curiously there is a certain impasse when it comes to premieres, since he is committed to projects that take time. He is in Kirot (2009), an action film that doesn’t attract too much attention. She faithful to the image of her that combines beauty and physicality is a warrior woman in a Roman film, Centurion (2010). More dramatic traits are offered by her character as an idealistic militiawoman on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war in Encontrarás dragones (2011), the film in which she puts a somewhat lost great director, Roland Joffé , back on the map . She is so happy she stayed with this director, that she is shooting with him in India Singularity .

Other films in progress or pending release are Terre outragée , about the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Empire of the Deep , of the fantastic genre, and the new and mysterious project by Terrence Malick , where he coincides with Javier Bardem . She clearly has to try new records, without a doubt that she can be a great comedian, or that feeling she transmitted when she went to the Spanish television program “El hormiguero”.