Olga Kurylenko is the fashion model who starred with Daniel Craig in the 2008 James Bond movie A Quantum of Solace.
Kurylenko was born 14 November 1979, in what was then the Soviet Union and now is the Ukraine.
She was 15 when she was spotted by a talent scout in Moscow; the next year she moved to Paris, and her career took off.
At age 18, Olga appeared on the cover of Glamour, then she graced magazine covers of Elle, Maxim, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Vogue, worn lingerie for the Victoria’s Secret catalog and also became the face of Lejaby lingerie, Bebe clothing, Clarins and Helena Rubinstein cosmetic companies.
In 1999, Olga married her friend, French photographer Cedric Van Mol and divorced him three and a half years later.
One day Olga presented herself to an acting agency. Eventually, she swapped the catwalk for celluloid, and her acting career took off.
In 2005 she made her film debut as Iris, a sensual beauty in L’annulaire (2005) by director Diane Bertrand.
Her popularity reached its peak (so far) in 2008, when she played Camille Montes, the revenge-minded Bolivian spy who pairs up with Bond in Quantum of Solace.
Her other films include Le Serpent (2006) and Max Payne (2008).