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A beautiful French actress and model with Ukrainian origin Olga Kurylenko was born on 14 November 1979 in Berdyansk, Zaporozhia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine). Her father was Ukrainian, and her mother was of Russian and Belarusian ancestry. Olga’s parents divorced when she was three. Olga’s mother Marina Alyabysheva, who was the teacher of art, had to raise a daughter alone. Olga saw her father seldom. Moreover, he did not take part in the upbringing of Olga.

When Olga Kurylenko was a <a href="/biography/olga-kurylenko">child</a>, she lived very poor. She wore old tattered clothes. However, she persistently studied art and languages. During seven years, Olga studied piano at a local school of music in Berdyansk. Until the age of 13 years, she also studied ballet.

At the age of 13 during her holiday in Moscow Olga Kurylenko was noticed by a representative of a model agency. He proposed her a job of a model in Moscow and Olga with her mother accepted his proposal. From that time her model career has begun.

Olga Kurylenko moved from to Moscow when she was 15. At the age of 16 she moved to Paris. In Paris, she signed with modeling agency Madyson. In 1997, Olga appeared on the covers of magazines: Glamour, Elle, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Vogue. Her popularity increased, and later she became the face of Lejaby lingerie, Bebe clothing, Clarins and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Rubinstein">Helena Rubinstein</a> cosmetic companies. She also appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalogue and modeled for such fashion designers as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Cavalli">Roberto Cavalli</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_(brand)">Kenzo</a>. In 2006, she became the face of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_(brand)">Kenzo</a>'s new fragrance, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_(brand)">Kenzo Amour</a>. She also continued to appear in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_(brand)">all</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_(brand)">Kenzo Amour</a> advertisements.

Being a successful model with height of 1.74 m Olga decided to try herself in acting. The first time she appeared as an actress in <a href="/biography/seal">Seal</a>'s music video, "Love's Divine" in 2003. However, her first real role was as "Iris", a sensual beauty, in L'annulaire in 2005. Then Olga Kurylenko played in a lot of movies like " Paris, je t'aime" (2006), " The Serpent" (2006), "Hitman" (2007), "Tyranny" (2008). A great success brought her the film "Quantum of Solace" (2008), where she played "Camille", the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_girl">Bond girl</a>.

The other movies Olga Kurylenko appeared in were "To the Wonder" (2010), "Oblivion" (2013), "November Man" (2014), "Empires of the Deep" (2015), "The Correspondence" (2016)

On December 2008, Olga Kurylenko was on the cover of American magazine Maxim and on February 2009 - on the cover of Ukrainian magazine Maxim. The president of Ukraine even wanted to name a street in Berdyansk after her.

Olga Kurylenko fell in love with French photographer Cedric Van Mol and in 1999 they got married. Their marriage did not last long and after 3,5 years Olga divorced with her husband. In 2006, she married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle, but they divorced in 2007. Kurylenko has one son, Alexander Max Horatio (October 3, 2015).

The young and beautiful French model and actress has her estimated net worth about $18 million dollars.

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