Birth Name:
Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko
Birth Place:
Berdyansk, Ukraine
Date of Birth:
14 November 1979
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian
The Ukrainian actress and model was born in the Ukraine to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother. She starred in the film Quantum of Solace as Nika Boronina. She lives in France and holds French citizenship.
She has received criticism from Russians who accuse her of betraying her homeland by playing the part of a secret agent in the James Bond film.
Source:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kurylenko
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
- http://au.news.yahoo.com/
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I disagree.
In my opinion she does have faint hint/touch of something exotic in her background.
Yes she doesn’t fully look like a half asian/half white, but in certain camera angles she does seem to have something going on there, which makes her so beautiful and exotic looking.
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lol,she doesnt looks like asian at all, she s obviously fully slavic!!!!!!!!!!
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I thought she was Chinese/White mix when I first saw her.
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She is pretty.
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So slavic girl!:D
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She’s also Belarusian. Its on Wikipedia w/ a source.
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Russian Communists are homos
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received criticism from Russian Communists ? what the hell is that supposed to mean ?? she was born in Ukraine, lived most of her life in France.. also, Russia is not a communist state since 1991, and most russians don’t give a crap about James Bond movies for crying out loud..
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No shes not Samoan, shes Russian.
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aye is she samoan?
cuz my freakin dada think she is:D
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