Izabella Scorupco Biography
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Izabella Scorupco
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| Izabella Scorupco | |
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| Born | Izabella Dorota Skorupko June 4, 1970 Bialystok, Poland |
| Spouse(s) | Mariusz Czerkawski 1996–1998 Jeffrey Raymond 2003–present |
Izabella Dorota Scorupco (born June 4, 1970 in Białystok, Poland, original last name was Skorupko) is a Polish-Swedish1 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 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. Coming to Sweden as an 8 year old, she learned to speak Swedish and English, 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 (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. Her first hit, in 1990, was not performed by her, but was in fact recorded by a ghost singer.
She was married to Polish ice hockey player Mariusz Czerkawski from 1996 to 1998. They have one daughter together, Julia (born September 16, 1997). On January 30, 2003 she married American citizen Jeffrey Raymond. Together they have a young son, Jakob (born July 24, 2003).
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Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | PEAK | U.S. Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
| 1995 | GoldenEye | Natalya Simonova | #1 | $106,429,941 | $348,895,621 |
| 1999 | With Fire and Sword | Helena Kurcewiczówna | ? | ? | ? |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit | Monique Aubertine | #2 | $69,243,859 | $215,663,859 |
| 2002 | Reign of Fire | Alex | #3 | $43,061,982 | $82,150,183 |
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Sarah | #1 | $41,821,986 | $78,000,586 |
| 2006 | Cougar Club | Paige | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2007 | Solstorm | Rebecka Martinsson |
Discography
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||
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| Sweden | Germany | Austria | Switzerland | Norway | ||
| 1990 | Substitute | # 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 1991 | I Write You a Love Song | # 10 | # 93 | - | - | - |
| 1991 | Brando Moves | # 37 | - | - | - | - |
| 1992 | Shame, Shame, Shame | # 3 | # 37 | # 22 | # 39 | # 2 |
Albums
- Iza (1991/1992) Sweden # 11
External links
- An interview with Scorupco taken after filming "Vertical Limit"
- Izabella Scorupco at the Internet Movie Database