Olga Kurylenko Appreciation Thread

[Wing Wang17]

Kurylenko was born in Berdiansk, Ukraine (born 14 November 1979). 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.

She was discovered as a model in Moscow at the age of 13. She moved to Paris to pursue a modelling 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).

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 a Bolivian Secret Service agent named Camille, who teams up with James Bond to avenge the death of her parents.

She was almost cast as Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe.


Filmography

• L'Annulaire (2005)
• The Serpent (2006)
• Hitman (2007)
• À l'est de moi (2008)
• Max Payne (2008)
• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• Kirot (2009)
• Centurion (2010)
• There Be Dragons (2011)
• Land of Oblivion (2011)
• Erased (2012)
• To the Wonder (2012)
• Seven Psychopaths (2012)
• Oblivion (2013)
• Vampire Academy (2014)
• The November Man (2014)
• The Water Diviner (2014)
• A Perfect Day (2015)
• Momentum (2015)
• The Correspondence (2016)
• The Death of Stalin (2017) | Post-production
• Gun Shy (2017) | Post-production
• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)| Filming
• 15 Minutes de guerre (2018) | Post-production