Olga Kurylenko Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Olga Kurylenko Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Olga Kurylenko is a Ukrainian and French actress. Born and raised in Berdyansk, Kurylenko moved to Paris at the age of 16 to pursue a modeling career. After starting her acting career in 2005, she had her breakthrough film role in the action-thriller Hitman (2007). She gained recognition as Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008) and as Taskmaster in the superhero film Black Widow (2021).

She has also starred in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (2012), Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy Seven Psychopaths (2012), the 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), the Netflix miniseries Treason (2022) and action film Extraction 2 (2023).

Kurylenko acquired French citizenship in 2001, which she called “a practical decision” because it was easier to travel with a French passport without a visa, as opposed to traveling with a Ukrainian passport. She married French fashion photographer Cedric van Mol in 2000. The couple divorced four years later. She married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabrielle in 2006; the marriage ended in divorce in late 2007. Kurylenko moved to London in 2009.

Kurylenko and her former partner, English actor and writer Max Benitz, have one son who was born in October 2015.

On February 24, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is part of the Russian-Ukrainian war, she expressed support for Ukraine.