Olga Kurylenko, who conquered the world (9 photos)

French actress and model of Ukrainian origin, conquered the world cinematic Olympus. Her talent is amazing and phenomenal performance is respected.





She can handle any role and any genre. She convincingly looks both in the role of a fatal beauty, and in the image of an easily vulnerable romantic lady. Feels confident in dramas, thrillers, action films, comedies, serious author's cinema.

Difficult childhood

The future movie star was born in the city of Berdyansk. Father - a native Ukrainian, mother is a Siberian of Russian-Belarusian origin. When the girl was three years old, her parents divorced. All the hardships the upbringing of the only daughter fell on the shoulders of the mother. The woman worked schoolteacher, and her modest salary was barely enough for them to live. Sometimes they even saved on food. And the living conditions were very cramped. Little Olya, together with her mother, huddled in a small apartment where my grandfather and grandmother, aunt and cousin lived.



The father practically did not take part in the upbringing of his native daughters. He made a career as a dancer, composed poetry, and before his problems he didn't care about his former family. The daughter saw her parent only five years after his divorce from his mother. And I realized that they were each other as complete strangers.

The girl grew up as a very talented child. Mother by all means sought to reveal her talents and give a good education. To to earn extra money, at her own peril and risk she gave private lessons in fine arts. Went to work in big cities leaving her daughter in the care of her grandparents. Olya taught hard English, attended a drama club, musical and artistic schools, ballet studio. And she could well become a famous ballerina, If I hadn't been injured in class one day.





When the girl was 13 years old, she and her mother moved from Ukraine to Moscow. Mom tried to instill in her daughter a love for art. I took her to the capital's exhibitions and museums. They visited Petersburg, visited the Hermitage. Once in the subway, a pretty Ukrainian woman with luxurious, waist-length hair, the representative noticed modeling agency. Offered to do a photo session. But when I found out how old she is, he refused his offer.

Model career

But Olga herself then thought about the career of a model. At 15 years, with the help of her mother, she really did a photo shoot and appeared at one from metropolitan modeling agencies. And at sixteen she already concluded the first contract and flew to work in Paris.

At first, the Ukrainian beauty had a hard time. I had to learn French on the go. Stacked up hard filming schedule. Work without days off. Endure domestic hardships. Nights Olga sobbed into her pillow from fatigue and despair. Tried to quit everything fly home. But severe hardening in childhood did not allow her to lower hands. She withstood everything and won, quickly learning everything. And Paris with Since then, it has become her favorite city in the world.



Olga has become the face of prestigious global brands. Often appeared on the cover of fashion magazines. But don't forget about additional education. I read a lot. In addition to French, she also studied other foreign languages. By the age of thirty, Kurylenko was already successful, held in his profession a girl. But she gave herself well report that modeling career is too short. And I set myself a new goal - conquer cinema.

Film actress snapped up

She began to go to acting classes, attend auditions. AND once a burning brunette beauty was invited to a cameo role in TV series Largo Winch. And a little later, she played a major role in the drama "Finger of Love", for which she even received an award at Brooklyn film festival as the best actress. Since then, her film career has skyrocketed. was gaining momentum. With her participation, several projects a year were released. Action, spy thrillers, melodramas, comedies, horrors, series - Olga Kurylenko became in great demand in Europe.



Bond girl in the action movie "Quantum of Solace"

And then thundered in Hollywood. The role of a Bond girl in adventure thriller "Quantum of Solace" brought her worldwide fame. The best Hollywood producers and directors literally flunked her offers. Olga feels great infrankly commercial projects, and in author's cinema. Plays both positive and and negative roles. One of the landmark projects with her participation is sensual melodrama directed by Terence Malick "To the Miracle", where Kurylenko joined the beauty Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem.



With Ben Affleck. Frame from Terence Malick's melodrama "To the Miracle"

The actress thoroughly prepares for each of her work. For As a Bond girl, she spent days at the gym. learned shoot a gun without blinking, mastered a lot of tricks. And for a role in Russell Crowe's historical war drama The Water Finder specially learned Turkish.

Today Olga Kurylenko is one of the most sought-after actresses of world cinema. The number of projects with her participation in recent years going wild. At the same time, their quality does not drop surprisingly. Actress knows how to choose his films. Thriller "Bay of Silence", mini-series "Country miracles”, the drama “Wishing Room”, action movie “Fifteen Minutes of War” – these and many other projects demonstrate Olga's bright acting talent and definitely worth watching.



In the spy thriller "Expat"



She herself prefers to act in English-speaking motion pictures. This is the only way to make a world film career, reasonably considers the actress. Therefore, despite his ardent love for Paris, even in In 2009 she moved to live in London.

Avoids excessive publicity

Surprisingly, the world-famous actress is trying avoid publicity and does not advertise his personal life. It is known that she been married twice. She had several long romances without a formal relationship. Raising a son alone Alexandra Marc Horatio, who is fluent in French and English. Olga herself, in addition to English and French, is well speaks Spanish. But she has not forgotten her roots. So far can easy to communicate in Ukrainian.



In her free time from filming, Olga travels a lot, leads a healthy lifestyle and carefully monitors their appearance. And wherein not shy to appear in public without makeup. And she also does charity. By his own admission, he dreams of opening a modern clinic with free services for all those in need. Partly she has already realized her dream - she helped to buy good equipment for a hospital in his native Berdyansk - the city where she once passed childhood, and which she still remembers.