Olga Kurylenko
Kurylenko in 2006, image via cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Olga Konstantynivna Kurylenko
Place of Birth: Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Date of Birth: 14 November, 1979
Ethnicity: Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, possibly some Polish
Olga Kurylenko is a Ukrainian-born actress and model. She is known for her roles in the films Hitman (2007), Max Payne, Quantum of Solace, To the Wonder, Seven Psychopaths, Momentum, and The Death of Stalin.
Olga was born in Berdiansk, Ukraine, to a Russian mother, Marina Vitalievna Alyabusheva, and a Ukrainian father, Konstantin Kurylenko. She also has Belarusian ancestry. As a teenager, Olga moved to Moscow, and then to Paris. She lives in France and holds French citizenship.
Olga has a son with her former partner, English actor, writer, and journalist Max Benitz.
Olga’s maternal grandfather is named Vitaly Alyabushev.
Olga’s maternal grandmother is named Raisa Vladimirovna.
Olga’s mother has said:
My great-grandmother Anna and grandmother Lena were very beautiful. The great-grandmother was a healer. She was Belarusian. She worked as housekeeper at the szlachta family Pudlovskiy. The owner seduced her. From owner was born my grandmother Lena. Pudlovskiy wanted to take her because he had no children of their own, but great-grandmother did not give.
Sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
http://au.news.yahoo.com
She’s also Belarusian. Its on Wikipedia w/ a source.
I did not know Olga also had Russian and Belarusian ancestry. I was under the impression that she was completely Ukrainian.
Russian Communists are homos
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..
No shes not Samoan, shes Russian.
aye is she samoan?
cuz my freakin dada think she is:D
Where on earth did you get Somoan from?