Olga Kostantinivna Kurylenko (Ukrainian: Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко – Olha Kostiantynivna Kurylenko, Russian: Ольга Константиновна Куриленко – Olga Konstantinovna Kurilenko; born 14 November 1979) is a French actress and model. She was discovered as a model at the age of 13 and at the age of 16 moved from Moscow to Paris to pursue a modeling career. Kurylenko started her acting career in 2005. She found success as an actress for her role as Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman (2007), and then rose to fame by playing Bond girl Camille Montes in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008). More recently she starred in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), and alongside Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013) and Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner (2014).

Early life

Kurylenko was born in Berdiansk, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Her father, Konstantin, is Ukrainian, and her mother, Marina Alyabysheva, who teaches art, was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is of Russian and Belarusian ancestry.