Izabella Scorupco
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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 was the 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.
She was married to ice hockey player Mariusz Czerkawski between December 1996 and 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 interesting interview with Scorupco taken after filming "Vertical Limit"
- Izabella Scorupco Fan Site
- Izabella Scorupco at the Internet Movie Database
