Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko could have stayed a Bond girl footnote, and I find it genuinely impressive that she refused to. Camille in Quantum of Solace was already a tougher, sadder character than the franchise usually allows, and she has kept choosing roles that stretch her—action spectacles, indie dramas, voice work. The journey itself earns my respect: a girl from Berdiansk, a port town in Ukraine, who built a career modelling in Paris and then rebuilt it again as an actress working in foreign languages. There is a quiet resilience under her glamour, and given what her homeland has endured, her continued visibility feels meaningful well beyond cinema.

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Name (English)

Olga Kurylenko

Name (Japanese)

オルガ・キュリレンコ

Reading

おるが・きゅりれんこ

Born

November 14, 1979 (age 46)

Origin

Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine

Height

176 cm

Occupation

actor / model / film actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Brooklyn Film Festival
• 2012 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/olgakurylenkoofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/OlyaKurylenko
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Kurylenko
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164730

Tags

• Zaporizhzhia Oblast
• actor
• model
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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