Izabella Scorupco
Encyclopedia
Izabella Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish actress and model, best known for her portrayal of Bond girl
Natalya Simonova
in the 1995 James Bond
film GoldenEye
.
, in 1970. When she was one year old, her parents separated, and she remained with her mother. In 1978, they moved to Bredäng
in Stockholm
, Sweden
, where Scorupco learned to speak Swedish
, English
and French
.
In the late 1980s, Scorupco travelled Europe working as a model, gaining a rudimentary grasp of the Italian language
, and appearing on the cover of Vogue
. In 1987, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the film Ingen kan älska som vi ("Nobody can love like us"). In the early 1990s, she had a brief but successful career as a pop singer, releasing the album IZA
, which went gold in Sweden in 1991. In 1995, she played Natalya Simonova
in the James Bond
film GoldenEye
, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan
.
On 25 December 1996, Scorupco married Polish ice hockey
player Mariusz Czerkawski
, then a player for the Edmonton Oilers
. They separated in 1998, having had one daughter together, Julia (born September 15, 1997). On January 30, 2003, Scorupco married an American, Jeffrey Raymond; they have a son, Jakob (born July 24, 2003), and now live in Los Angeles
.
In 2011, Scorupco reprised her singing career, duetting with Peter Jöback
in his single Jag Har Dig Nu, featuring in the music video and in his short extension film La vie, L'amour, Le mort. It has been confirmed that Scorupco will be hosting the spring 2012 series of Sweden's Next Top Model
.
, Oriflame
, Dr Irena Eris and Wera. She has also worked with numerous stylists, including Jonas Hallberg, whose TV programme she has appeared on several times.
Bond girl
A Bond girl is a character or actress portraying a love interest, of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game. They occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Xenia Onatopp", or "Holly Goodhead"...
Natalya Simonova
Natalya Simonova
Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film GoldenEye, played by actress Izabella Scorupco.-Biography:...
in the 1995 James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film GoldenEye
GoldenEye
GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...
.
Biography
Scorupco was born to Lech and Magdalena Skorupko in Białystok, PolandPoland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, in 1970. When she was one year old, her parents separated, and she remained with her mother. In 1978, they moved to Bredäng
Bredäng
Bredäng is a suburb in south-west Stockholm, Sweden. It is a part of Skärholmen borough and is named after a former farm in the area. Bredäng has an 18th century mansion, Jakobsbergs Gård, named after its first owner, Jakob Graver. Bredäng consists predominantly of 1960s apartment blocks and has a...
in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, where Scorupco learned to speak Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
.
In the late 1980s, Scorupco travelled Europe working as a model, gaining a rudimentary grasp of the Italian language
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, and appearing on the cover of Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
. In 1987, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the film Ingen kan älska som vi ("Nobody can love like us"). In the early 1990s, she had a brief but successful career as a pop singer, releasing the album IZA
IZA (album)
IZA is an album recorded by Izabella Scorupco.-Track listing:#"Shame Shame Shame"# I Write You a Love Song# Everything to You# You Take Me Up# When Passion Rules the Heart# Red Hot and Blue...
, which went gold in Sweden in 1991. In 1995, she played Natalya Simonova
Natalya Simonova
Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film GoldenEye, played by actress Izabella Scorupco.-Biography:...
in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film GoldenEye
GoldenEye
GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...
, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...
.
On 25 December 1996, Scorupco married Polish ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
player Mariusz Czerkawski
Mariusz Czerkawski
Mariusz Czerkawski is a retired Polish ice hockey player. He played for the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . In addition to playing in the NHL, Czerkawski played for several different European-based teams...
, then a player for the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
. They separated in 1998, having had one daughter together, Julia (born September 15, 1997). On January 30, 2003, Scorupco married an American, Jeffrey Raymond; they have a son, Jakob (born July 24, 2003), and now live in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
In 2011, Scorupco reprised her singing career, duetting with Peter Jöback
Peter Jöback
Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer and musical artist, and is regarded as being one of Sweden's best male vocalists .- 1997–2000 :...
in his single Jag Har Dig Nu, featuring in the music video and in his short extension film La vie, L'amour, Le mort. It has been confirmed that Scorupco will be hosting the spring 2012 series of Sweden's Next Top Model
Sweden's Next Top Model
Sweden's Next Top Model or Top Model Sverige was a Swedish reality television show based on America's Next Top Model. It was broadcast on TV3 in Sweden. In Top Model Sverige, the 9 contestants are competing for a top 3 spots to compete in Scandinavia's Next Top Model. These final 3 girls then join...
.
Modelling career
Scorupco has modelled for many high street brands, including Tiffany and Co., H&MH&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
, Oriflame
Oriflame
Oriflame Cosmetics S.A. is a cosmetics group, founded in 1967 in Sweden by the brothers Jonas af Jochnick and Robert af Jochnick. The company sells skin care, cosmetic products and other related products through an independent sales force of over 3 million people.-Brief history:Oriflame was...
, Dr Irena Eris and Wera. She has also worked with numerous stylists, including Jonas Hallberg, whose TV programme she has appeared on several times.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Ingen kan älska som vi | Annelie |
| 1991 | Bert Bert Bert is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz. Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary performer... |
Zindy Dabrowski |
| 1991 | V som i viking | The Single Mother |
| 1995 | Petri Tårar | Carla |
| 1995 | GoldenEye GoldenEye GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming... |
Natalya Simonova Natalya Simonova Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film GoldenEye, played by actress Izabella Scorupco.-Biography:... |
| 1999 | With Fire and Sword With Fire and Sword (film) With Fire and Sword is the English title of the Polish film Ogniem i Mieczem, a historical drama directed by Jerzy Hoffman, released in 1999... |
Helena Kurcewiczówna |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit Vertical Limit Vertical Limit is a 2000 thriller action film directed by New Zealander Martin Campbell starring, among others, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney and Scott Glenn... |
Monique Aubertine |
| 2002 | Reign of Fire | Alex Jensen |
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning Exorcist: The Beginning Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 prequel to the 1973 film The Exorcist. This is the second version of the third Exorcist sequel. It was adapted by William Wisher Jr., Caleb Carr and Alexi Hawley, and directed by Renny Harlin... |
Sarah |
| 2006 | Cougar Club Cougar Club Cougar Club is a 2007 American film directed by Christopher Duddy. The film details the attempts of two college graduates, Marshall Hogan III and Spence Holmes, to find direction in life... |
Credited as Paige, Real character Daniella |
| 2007 | Solstorm Solstorm (film) Solstorm is a Swedish thriller/drama film released in 2007. It was filmed in Kiruna and was released in cinema on November 2, 2007... |
Rebecka Martinsson |
| 2010 | Änglavakt | Cecilia |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song) "Shame, Shame, Shame" is a 1974 hit song written by Sylvia Robinson and performed by American disco band Shirley & Company. The single hit number one on the soul singles chart for one week, and number one on the disco/dance charts for four weeks.The track was one of the first international disco... " |
3 | 37 | 22 | 39 | 2 |