Olga Kurylenko Wiki, Age, Biography, Height, Husband, Family, Images, And More

Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (born November 14, 1979) is a Ukrainian and French actress and model. She was born and reared in Berdyansk before moving to Paris at the age of 16 to pursue a modelling career. She began her acting career in 2005 and rose to prominence as Nika Boronina in the cinematic adaptation of the computer game Hitman (2007). She is most recognised for her roles as Bond girl Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace (2008) and Taskmaster in Black Widow (2021).

She has appeared in a number of films, including Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Seven Psychopaths (2012), Tom Cruise's science fiction film Oblivion (2013), Armando Iannucci's political satire The Death of Stalin (2017), Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), and the Netflix series Treason (2022).

Kurylenko grew up in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Her father, Konstantin, is Ukrainian, while her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, an exhibiting artist and art teacher, was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is of Russian and Belarusian descent.

Her parents split when she was three years old, leaving her to be raised by her single mother. Kurylenko had little contact with her father, meeting him for the first time after their divorce when she was eight years old, and again when she was thirteen.

At the age of 15, Kurylenko relocated from her hometown of Berdyansk to Moscow. She relocated to Paris when she was 16 years old. She signed with the Paris-based Madison modelling agency in 1996, where she met her publicist Valérie Rosen. By the following year, she had appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle magazines at the age of 18. Kurylenko supported her mother in Ukraine while working as a model in Paris.

She has also graced the covers of Madame Figaro and Marie Claire. She became the face of several brands, including Bebe, Clarins, and Helena Rubinstein. She has also modelled for Roberto Cavalli and Kenzo, as well as for Victoria's Secret.

In 1998, she appears in the music video "Tellement Je T'aime" by French-Algerian Ra style singer Faudel.

Her first acting role was in Seal's music video "Love's Divine" in 2003, but her first cinematic career began in France in 2005. She got a certificate of excellence award for her performance in L'Annulaire at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival, and she also appeared in the Paris, je t'aime section "Quartier de la Madeleine" alongside Elijah Wood. The following year, she was chosen to be the face of Kenzo's new fragrance, Kenzo Amour. She has been in every Kenzo Amour advertising since.

She co-starred in Hitman with Timothy Olyphant in 2007. Natasha was a minor character in Max Payne. After beating out Gal Gadot in the tryouts, she played Bond girl Camille Montes in the 2008 James Bond thriller Quantum of Solace. In the film, she plays Bolivian Secret Service agent Camille Montes, who joins forces with Bond to halt a terrorist organisation and avenge her parents' deaths.

She was on the cover of the December 2008 issue of Maxim magazine in the United States, as well as the February 2009 issue of Maxim in Ukraine. In early 2008, the mayor of Berdyansk proposed naming a boulevard after her, and she and her mother met Ukraine's First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko at President Victor Yushchenko's family country estate.

Kurylenko starred alongside Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams in Terrence Malick's romantic drama film To the Wonder. The film was shot in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in the fall of 2010. She also starred in Oblivion, a science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise. In the spy thriller November Man, Kurylenko portrayed Alice Fournier. Kurylenko co-starred in the 2014 historical drama film The Water Diviner with Russell Crowe (in his directing debut), Jacqueline McKenzie, and Jai Courtney. In Vampire Academy, she again played the headmistress. Later in her career, she appeared in films such as Momentum, Mara, and The Bay of Silence.

In 2017, she played Soviet pianist Maria Yudina in Armando Iannucci's political satire film The Death of Stalin. The picture, which starred Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, and Jeffrey Tambor, was a critical hit. The next year, she co-starred with Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce in Terry Gilliam's epic adventure picture The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), which premiered at the 2018 Cannes picture Festival. She also starred in The Emperor of Paris as Baroness Roxane de Giverny and as the Russian spy in Rowan Atkinson's comedy Johnny English Strikes Again (2018).

She appeared in the action thriller Sentinelle in 2021. She portrays Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Black Widow the same year. She was cast in the comic heist flick High Heat starring Don Johnson in October.

Personal life

Kurylenko obtained French citizenship in 2001, which she described as "a practical decision" because it was easier to travel without a visa with a French passport than with a Ukrainian one. In the year 2000, she married French fashion photographer Cedric van Mol. Four years later, the couple split. In 2006, she married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle; the marriage terminated in late 2007. In 2009, Kurylenko relocated to London.

Kurylenko and her ex-husband, English actor and writer Max Benitz, have one kid, born in October 2015.

She showed support for Ukraine on February 24, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Filmography

Film

**List of film performances by Olga Kurylenko**
Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2005	L'Annulaire	Iris	Diane Bertrand
2006	Paris, je t'aime	The Vampire	Vincenzo Natali	Segment: Quartier de la Madeleine
2006	The Serpent	Sofia	Éric Barbier
2007	Hitman	Nika Boronina	Xavier Gens
2008	À l'est de moi	The Russian prostitute	Bojena Horackova
	Max Payne	Natasha Sax	John Moore
	Quantum of Solace	Camille Montes	Marc Forster
2009	Kirot (The Assassin Next Door)	Galia	Danny Lerner
2010	Centurion	Etain	Neil Marshall
2011	There Be Dragons	Ildiko	Roland Joffé
2011	Land of Oblivion	Anya	Michale Boganim	Also executive producer
2012	Erased	Anna Brandt	Philipp Stölzl
	To the Wonder	Marina	Terrence Malick
	Seven Psychopaths	Angela	Martin McDonagh
2013	Oblivion	Julia Rusakova Harper	Joseph Kosinski
2014	Vampire Academy	Ellen Kirova	Mark Waters
	The November Man	Alice Fournier/Mira Filipova	Roger Donaldson
	The Water Diviner	Ayshe	Russell Crowe
2015	A Perfect Day	Katya	Fernando León de Aranoa
2015	Momentum	Alex Farraday	Stephen S. Campanelli
2016	The Correspondence	Amy	Giuseppe Tornatore
2017	The Death of Stalin	Maria Yudina	Armando Iannucci
2017	Gun Shy	Sheila	Simon West
2018	Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume)	Anna	Daniel Roby
	The Man Who Killed Don Quixote	Jacqui	Terry Gilliam
	Mara	Kate Fuller	Clive Tonge
	Johnny English Strikes Again	Ophelia	David Kerr
	The Emperor of Paris	Baroness Roxane of Giverny	Jean-François Richet
2019	L'Intervention	Jane Anderson	Fred Grivois
2019	The Room	Kate	Christian Volckman
	The Courier	The Courier	Zackary Adler
	The Translators	Katerina Anisinova	Rėgis Roinsard
2020	The Bay of Silence	Rosalind	Paula van der Oest
2021	Sentinelle	Klara	Julien Leclercq
2021	Black Widow	Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster	Cate Shortland
2022	Vanishing	Alice	Denis Dercourt	Korean-French Film
	White Elephant	Vanessa Flynn	Jesse V. Johnson
	The Princess	Kai	Le-Van Kiet
	High Heat	Ana	Zach Golden
2023	Extraction 2	Mia	Sam Hargrave	Upcoming
2024	Thunderbolts	Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster	Jake Schreier	In Production
TBA	Empires of the Deep		Michael French Scott Miller	Post-production

Television

**List of television performances by Olga Kurylenko**
Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2001	Largo Winch	Carole		TV series (1 Episode : "Contessa Vanessa")
2006	Le porte-bonheur	Sophia	Laurent Dussaux	TV movie
2007	Suspectes	Eva Pirès		TV miniseries (7 episodes)
2010	Tyranny	Mina Harud	John Beck Hofmann	TV series (5 episodes); also writer
2012–13	Magic City	Vera Evans	Mainly Ed Bianchi Simon Cellan Jones	TV series (16 episodes)
2014	Mission Control	NASA broadcasting news	Will Ferrell	Episode 13: Go Home
2020	Wonderland, the girl from the shore	Alice	Hervé Hadmar	6 episodes
2022	Treason	Kara Yusova		TV miniseries (5 episodes)

Video game

**List of video game performances by Olga Kurylenko**
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	007: Quantum of Solace	Camille Montes (voice)

Awards and nominations

**List of Olga Kurylenko award nominations and awards won**
Year	Awards	Category	Recipient	Outcome
2005	Brooklyn international film festival	Best actress	L'Annulaire	Won
2008	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actress	Quantum of Solace	Nominated
2009	Empire Awards	Best Actress	Quantum of Solace	Nominated
2012	Boston Society of Film Critics Award	Best Cast	Seven Psychopaths	Won
2012	San Diego Film Critics Society Award	Best Performance by an Ensemble	Seven Psychopaths	Nominated

Olga Kurylenko – Biography, Facts & Life Story

Body Measurements	34-23-35 inches
Bodytype	Hourglass
Height	5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m)
Weight	53 kg (117 lbs)
Waist	23 inches
Hair Color	Dark Brown
Eye Color	Green
Shoe Size	8 (US)
Dress Size	4 (US)

Nickname	Olga Kurylenko
Gender	Female
Age	43 years old (in 2023)
Date of Birth	November 14, 1979
Full Name	Olga Konstiantinivna Kurylenko
Profession	Actress, Model
Nationality	Ukrainian
Birthplace	Berdyans’k, Ukraine
Religion	Agnostic
Zodiac Sign	Scorpio