Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko is an actress who has seen her star rise sharply over the last few years - her role in Quantim of Solace really giving her career a boost back in 2008.

She is back on the big screen this week as she teams up with Tom Cruise for the big screen adaptation of graphic novel Oblivion.

We take a look back over her career and the range of different roles that she has tackled.

Hitman (2007)

Kurylenko kicked off her acting career in French fim before moving into television but it was her role in Hitman that really introduced her to more mainstream audiences.

The movie was a bit screen adaptation of the hit video game and saw her star alongside Timothy Olyphant and Dougray Scott while Xavier Gens was in the director's chair.

She took on the role of Nika Boronina in the film - a woman who is dragged into a political conspiracy that includes Agent 47 and a group known as The Organization.

Hitman perhaps was not the best way to kick off her American acting career as it was panned by critics and struggled at the box office but it was the movie that she needed to really get her face and name out there.

Olga Kurylenko in Hitman

Quantum of Solace (2008)

It was to be Bond 22 Quantum of Solace that was to be her major breakthrough role as she starred alongside Daniel Craig in the Marc Forster directed movie.

She took on the role of Bond girl Camille Montes in the film - a Bolivian agent who has her own reasons for hunting down villain Dominic Greene.

Quantum of Solace continued the trend of strong Bond girls and Kurylenko was able to show off an action side in this high octane movie.

But Quantum of Solace was a film that was made during the writer's strike and suffered for it. However it was a box office success as it took over $586 million worldwide.

This was a movie that really did put Kurylenko on the map and she has seen her career go only one way since, and that is up.

Olga Kurylenko in Quantum of Solace

Centurion (2010)

In 2010 she took on a very different project as she teamed up with director Neil Marshall for Centurion.

The movie was based in the second century AD and was loosely based on the massacre of the Ninth Legion in Caledonia.

Kurylenko took on the role of Etain in the movie, a warrior from the Brigantes tribe who is looking fo revenger against the Romans after the butchering of her family.

Centurion was a gritty and violent British movie that was a very different filming experience to what Kurylenko had had before.

Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Liam Cunningham and David Morrissey were all on the cast list alongside her for what was an action packed film.

Olga Kurylenko in Centurion

Seven Psychopaths (2012)

Kurylenko was back on the big screen last year as she teamed up with Colin Farrell for Seven Psychopaths.

The movie was the latest offering from director Martin McDonagh - he brought us In Bruges - and was a black comedy.

The role of Angela was only a small one for Kurylenko but the movie was a critical and box office success.

Seven Psychopaths saw Kurylenko on a cast list with Farrell. Sam Rockwell. Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken.

The movie went on to be nominated for Outstanding British Film alongside Anna Karenina, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Les Miserables and winner Skyfall.

Olga Kurylenko in Seven Psychopaths

To The Wonder (2013)

We have already seen Kurylenko on the big screen this year as she starred in Terrence Malick's latest film To The Wonder.

The movie was written and directed by Malick while Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem joined Kurylenko on the cast list.

To The Wonder is a movie that looks at the power and pain of love and all of the main cast gave strong and moving performances.

This was the most character driven movie of Kurylenko's American film career and it showed off a very different side to the actress.

Terrence Malick's movies have always divided opinion and To The Wonder did exactly that.

Olga Kurylenko in To The Wonder

Oblivion (2013)

She tackles the science fiction genre this week as she stars in Joseph Kosinski's movie Oblivion.

Kurylenko takes on the role of Julia in the movie - a woman who wakes after sevent years of cryosleep to find earth destroyed and her husband a different man.

There is great chemistry between Kurylenko and Cruise as together the pair figure out the truth about the war that destroyed the planet.

Olga Kurylenko in Oblivion

Oblivion is out now.


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