Olga Kurylenko

Date of birth: 1979-11-14
Birthplace: Berdyansk, Ukraine
Height: 5' 9
Nationality: Ukrainian
Profession: actress, model

Kostyantynivna Olga Kurylenko ( born on November 14, 1979) is a Ukrainian model and actress. She is best known as the Bond girl in the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of solace.

Olga Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) on November 14, 1979 to a Russian mother and Ukrainian father. When Olga was three years old her parents separated, allowing her to be raised by her mother. Olga rarely had contact with her father, to meet him for the first time when she was 8 years old, and again later when she was 13.

She was discovered by a female model scout while on holiday in Moscow at the age of thirteen. When she was 17 she signed a contract with the Paris-based modeling agency Madison. By the age of 18 years she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle. In 2005 Kurylenko began her film career in France. She received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L'Annulaire, and also starred in the Paris, Je T'aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood.

In 2007 Kurylenko star in Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant. She played Camille Bond girl in the latest 007 movie, Quantum of consolation, the 22nd film in the Bond series.