21 Facts About Olga Kurylenko

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Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko is a Ukrainian and French actress and model.

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Olga Kurylenko is known as Bond girl Camille Montes in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace and as Taskmaster in the superhero film Black Widow.

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Olga Kurylenko's father, Konstantin, is Ukrainian, and her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, who teaches art and is an exhibited artist, was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is of Russian and Belarusian ancestry.

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Olga Kurylenko's parents divorced when she was three and she was raised by her single mother.

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Olga Kurylenko rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time after the split when she was eight, and later when she was thirteen.

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Olga Kurylenko appeared on the covers of Madame Figaro and Marie Claire magazines.

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Olga Kurylenko became the face of brands Bebe, Clarins, and Helena Rubinstein.

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Olga Kurylenko has modelled for Roberto Cavalli and Kenzo and appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalogue.

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Olga Kurylenko has appeared in all subsequent Kenzo Amour advertisements.

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Olga Kurylenko had a minor role in Max Payne as Natasha.

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Olga Kurylenko played Bond girl Camille Montes in the 2008 James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

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Olga Kurylenko was featured on the cover of the December 2008 issue of the US edition of Maxim magazine and on the cover of the February 2009 issue of the Ukrainian edition of Maxim.

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Olga Kurylenko appeared in Terrence Malick's romantic drama film To the Wonder starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams.

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Olga Kurylenko appeared in Oblivion, a science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski.

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In 2014, Olga Kurylenko starred in the historical drama film The Water Diviner alongside Russell Crowe, Jacqueline McKenzie and Jai Courtney.

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Olga Kurylenko later acted in films such as Momentum, Mara and The Bay of Silence.

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Olga Kurylenko appeared as Baroness Roxane de Giverny in The Emperor of Paris, and as the Russian spy in the Rowan Atkinson led comedy film Johnny English Strikes Again.

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Olga Kurylenko acquired French citizenship in 2001, which she called "a practical decision" because it was easier to travel with a French passport without a visa, as opposed to travelling with a Ukrainian passport.

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Olga Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric van Mol in 2000.

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Olga Kurylenko married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle in 2006; the marriage ended in divorce in late 2007.

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Olga Kurylenko and her former partner, English actor and writer Max Benitz, have one sonwho was born in October 2015.