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Izabella Dorota Scorupco (born June 4,
1970) is a Polish 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.
As a child, Izabella Scorupco silently watched her
loud-mouth cousin hog all the attention at family
gatherings. As an adult, the cover model turned-pop
diva-turned-screen siren never goes unnoticed.
Scorupco was born on June 4, 1970, in Bialystock, an
industrial town in northeast Poland, to Madgelena and
Lech Scorupco. Her mother, a doctor, and her father, a
jazz musician, divorced when she was one (her father
died 18 years later). In 1978, Scorupco and her mother
relocated to a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. There,
Scorupco took various singing and acting courses and
began composing her own plays, which she would bully her
classmates into performing. From ages 12 to 13, she
visited a Catholic convent to study French. Though she
claims to have spent most of her time there frequenting
nightclubs, French is one of several languages that she
speaks fluently.
Scorupco's big break came at 17 when Swedish film
director Staffan Hildebrand stopped at her school while
on a promotional tour. Determined to get the filmmaker's
attention, Scorupco bombarded Hildebrand with questions
and then convinced him that the plot of his next film --
about a child of divorce who wants to travel north to
see her father -- mirrored her own life experience.
Impressed, Hildebrand cast her in the film, 1988's Ingen
Kan Älska Som Vi (There Is No Love Like Ours), which
made her a teenage idol.
After graduation, Scorupco traveled throughout Europe,
acting in television commercials and modeling (she even
appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue). In her spare
time, she would sing with friends who were musicians and
eventually decided to make a record. In 1989, Scorupco
released the ABBA-inspired song "Substitute."
The single went gold in Sweden, along with its album,
IZA (released in the States as Independence by IZA). In
1991, she followed up her success with a second album
and the pop single "Shame, Shame, Shame."
That same year, Scorupco returned to acting for the
television miniseries V Som I Viking (The Single
Mother). She also met and fell in love with Polish ice
hockey player Mariusz Czerskawski. In 1994, after
Scorupco finished filming her role in the medieval drama
Petri Tårar (The Tears of Saint Peter) (1995),
Czerskawski began playing for the National Hockey League
and the couple relocated to the United States. Barely a
year later, the actress made her Hollywood debut as Bond
girl Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova (a Russian computer
whiz determined to save the world) opposite Pierce
Brosnan in Martin Campbell's GoldenEye (1995).
On Christmas Day in 1996, Scorupco and Czerkawski
married at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas. A year
later, Scorupco gave birth to their daughter, Julia. The
actress then returned to Poland to star in Jerzy
Hoffman's Ogniem I Mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1998).
The historical film, based on Nobel prize-winner Henryk
Sienkiewicz's novel, was the country's biggest film
production to date.
In 1999, Scorupco became the spokeswoman for the very
popular Swedish cosmetics company Oriflame. She then
signed onto the cast of the thriller Dykaren (The Diver)
(2000). Only four days after Dykaren finished shooting,
the actress flew to New Zealand to reteam with GoldenEye
director Martin Campbell for Vertical Limit (2000). The
action-packed film featured Scorupco as a French
Canadian mountain climber who helps Chris O'Donnell
rescue his sister after an avalanche buries her in a
crevasse.
Scorupco took the part in order to work
with Campbell again, despite the fact that she had never
climbed before and the job required that she hang from
ropes almost 1,200 feet from the ground on a set that
had to be evacuated several times. Her fearlessness
established Scorupco in Hollywood as a credible action
hero and she went on to star alongside Matthew
McConaughey and Christian Bale as a dragon-slaying
helicopter pilot in the sci-fi thriller Reign of Fire
(2002).
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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