Bond girl Olga Kurylenko to open Ukrainian film festival

The Bond girl from the lastest James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace", Olga Kurylenko, is going to be a hostess of the ceremonial opening of “Molodist 39”. This model and actress was born in Berdiansk, Zaporizzhya region. She is one of those Ukrainian stars the popularity of which spread far across Ukrainian borders - reports Mododist.

In Ukraine they started talking about Olga only after 007 movie #22 “Quantum of Solace” was revealed. There Olga played the role of Bond’s female foil. The part of Camille from Bolivia wanted approximately 400 actresses.

Olga was born on November, 14th 1979 and till 16 lived in Ukraine. She learned English, played piano and practised ballet. They call her “Ukrainian Cinderella” because her life changed like in a real fairytale. Her dad abandoned their family soon after his daughter was born. Then a large family lived in a tiny grandmother’s flat in difficult conditions. That’s why when during one week long travel to Moscow an agent came up to Olga and suggested her to sty herself as a model she couldn’t believe her luck. Three years later Kurylenko moved to Paris and signed a contract with “Madison” agency. When she was 18 her face appeared on covers of Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire, Madame Figaro and Elle. Also she became a face of Lejaby, Bebe Clothing, Clarins and Helena Rubinstein companies.

In 1999 Olga got married to a well-known French Photographer Cedric van Mol. At the same time she started working with actors agency and in 2005 got the main role in the Diane Bertrand’s movie “L’Annulair”. Also she had parts in “Le’Serpent” (2006), “Paris, je t’aime” (2006), “Hitman” (2007), “Max Payne” (2008). In 2006-2007 Olga was married to French entrepreneur. In 2006 she got a main role award for the movie “L’Annulaire” at the Brooklyn Intl. Film Festival. Today Olga is a citizen of France.

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