Olga Kurylenko
Ukrainian-French actress and model (born 1979)
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- Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian and French actress and former model.
- Kurylenko began her career modelling in Paris before making a transition to acting.
- Early life Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko was born on 14 November 1979 in Berdyansk, a port city in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine.
- Kurylenko's father, Konstantin Kurylenko, is Ukrainian.
- Marina's father was a Russian factory worker, and her mother, Raisa, was a Belarusian doctor.
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).
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 Ukrainian. Her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, teaches art and is an exhibited artist. Marina's father was a Russian factory worker, and her mother, Raisa, was a Belarusian 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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