Olga Kurelenko

Olga Kurylenko was born in November 14, 1979 in Berdyansk (Ukraine). Her parents divorced when she was a child. Olga’s bringing up was left on the shoulders of her mother and grandmother. Since 7 years old, Olga visited piano classes and ballet studio. At the age of eight she began to learn English.

Olga's life changed when her mother and she left for Moscow, where she was noticed by a model agent, who proposed her to try herself as a model. Olga reacted to this proposal with interest and signed up the models classes. At sixteen she moved to Paris. Two years after Olga had signed the contract with the "Madison" agency her photograph appeared on the "Glamour" cover and after some time in such magazines as "Vogue", "Marie Claire", "Madame Figaro" and "Elie".

In Paris in 1999, Olga married her friend - a well known French photographer Cedric Van Mol. But the marriage lasted not for long, after three years they divorced. Then, when she became a citizen of France, she was able to travel and work in the West. Somewhere around that time, Olga began to take acting classes. In 2005 she played in the film "Annulaire, L”. After she starred in the film "Paris, je t'aime. In 2008 she was chosen to play Bond’s girl. The most popular movies in which she appeared at that time were "Hitmen" and "Max Payne".