Izabella Scorupco

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Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova in "GoldenEye".
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Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova in "GoldenEye".

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 is the first Polish born and 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)

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