Olga Kurylenko is new Bond girl By Richard AlleyneLast Updated: 2:01pm GMT 08/01/2008 Beautiful Soviet spies have been a mainstay of James Bond films but in the past they have usually been portrayed by western actresses. Olga Kurylenko will play the alluring spy Camille Even Tatiana Romanova, the double agent in From Russia With Love, was actually an Italian.Now in a reversal of tradition, Bond’s new sidekick will be played by a star of French film and television originally from the Ukraine.
It has been announced that Olga Kurylenko, 28, a supermodel turned actress, will be “leading lady” cast along side Daniel Craig in the latest 007 outing.
Miss Kurylenko, recently seen opposite Timothy Olyphant in video game spin-off Hitman, will star as the “dangerously alluring” Camille. The 5ft 8 inch model, who was discovered while on holiday in Moscow when she was 15, lives in Paris and has starred in a number of French television series and films. As well as Hitman, they include 2006’s Paris, Je T’aime opposite Elijah Wood. The announcement of her role comes just days after the British actress Gemma Arterton, star of St Trinian’s was also named as a Bond girl.
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