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
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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.
I think it’s just the fact that she’s Ukrainian. Irina Zhuravskaya, the Miss Ukraine of 2008, looks a lot like Olga, and she has the same exotic look to her.
You think, smb., besides of you know, the Miss Ukraine
of 2008? It’s seems, you fall in love with her, you post
her name at every page
lol,she doesnt looks like asian at all, she s obviously fully slavic!!!!!!!!!!
Americans think that typical European have blond hair and blue eyes and if not he should be mixed like they are.
I thought she was Chinese/White mix when I first saw her.
She is pretty.
Yes. She is.
So slavic girl!:D