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Personal life
Olga Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)
on November 14, 1979 to a mother of Russian descent and father of
Ukrainian descent. When Olga was three years old her parents
divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother. Olga rarely had
contact with her father, meeting him for the first time when she
was 8 years old, and later again when she was 13. In 2000,
Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric Van Mol,
but the couple divorced four years later. In 2006 she married American
mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabriel Neufeld. They
divorced in late 2007. Kurylenko has lived in Paris since leaving
Ukraine in 1996 to pursue her modeling career.
The fact she is the first Bond girl from a post-Soviet state
got mixed reactions in the post-Soviet countries. The Saint-Petersburg
based Communist group KPLO has accused her of "moral and intellectual
betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the
Soviet people" (meaning James Bond),[9] but the mayor of Berdyansk
has suggested naming a street after her[10] and she met Ukraine's
First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko in President Yushchenko's family
country house.
She was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation
in Moscow at the age of thirteen. When she was 17 she signed
a contract with the Paris-based Madison modeling agency. By
the age of 18 she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue and
Elle.
In 2005 Kurylenko began her film career in France. She received
the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International
Film Festival for her performance in L'Annulaire, and also starred
in the Paris, je t'aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite
Elijah Wood. In 2007, Kurylenko starred in Hitman alongside Timothy
Olyphant. She played Bond girl Camille in the latest 007 film, Quantum
of Solace, the 22nd film in the Bond Series.
Olga was featured on the cover of Maxim magazine's December 2008
issue.[15]
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