Izabella Scorupco
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| Birth name | Izabella Dorota Scorupco |
| Born | June 4, 1970 (age 36) Bialystok, Poland |
| Notable roles | Natalya Simonova in the 1995 movie GoldenEye |
Izabella Dorota Scorupco (born June 4, 1970) is an actress who is most famous for appearing as Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is the first Polish born and fourth Swedish actress to play a Bond girl.
Scorupco was born in Białystok, Poland to Lech and Magdalena. When she was only one year old her parents split up and Izabella came to live with her mother. In 1978 the two moved to Bredäng in Stockholm, Sweden. She learned to speak Swedish and English during this time, in addition to her native Polish.
She worked as a model and in 1989 she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the movie Ingen kan älska som vi (Nobody loves like us). In the early nineties, she also had a brief but successful career as a pop singer, releasing an album which went gold in Sweden.
She was married to ice hockey player Mariusz Czerkawski from December 1996 to 2000. They have one daughter together, Julia (born September 1997). On January 30, 2003 she married American Jeffrey Raymond. Together they have a young son, Jacob (born July 24, 2003).
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[edit] Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | PEAK | U.S. Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
| 2006 | Cougar Club | Paige | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2005 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Sarah | #1 | $41,821,986 | 78,000,586 |
| 2002 | Reign of Fire | Alex | #3 | $43,061,982 | $82,150,183 |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit | Monique Aubertine | #2 | $69,243,859 | $215,663,859 |
| 1999 | Guest House Paradiso | ? | ? | ? | |
| 1999 | With Fire and Sword | Helena Kurcewiczówna | ? | ? | ? |
| 1995 | GoldenEye | Natalya Simonova | #1 | $106,429,941 | $348,895,621 |
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||
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| Sweden | Germany | Austria | Switzerland | Norway | ||
| 1990 | "Substitute" | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1991 | "Brando Moves" | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1991 | "I Write You a Love Song" | - | # 93 | - | - | - |
| 1992 | "Shame, Shame, Shame" | # 3 | # 37 | # 22 | # 39 | # 2 |
[edit] Albums
- Iza (1991/1992)
[edit] External links
- http://actionadventure.about.com/library/weekly/aa121200a.htm An interview with Scorupco taken after filming "Vertical Limit"
- Izabella Scorupco at the Internet Movie Database
