Olga Kurylenko

Born: 1979-11-14

Birthplace: Berdiansk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine]

Biography

Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (Ukrainian: Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко, IPA: [ˈɔlʲɦɐkosʲtʲɐnˈtɪn⁽ʲ⁾iu̯nɐ kʊrɪˈlɛnko]; born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian-born French actress. She rose to prominence by playing Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008).

Kurylenko had a successful modelling career in Paris before refocusing on acting in 2004. She had her breakthrough role in the action film Hitman (2007). She has also starred 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 film Black Widow (2021), the Netflix spy thriller miniseries Treason (2022) and the action thriller Extraction 2 (2023).