Name: Izabella Scorupco
Date: June 4 1970
Birth Place: Bialystok, Poland
Height: 5' 6 1/2''
Nationality: Polish
Claim to fame: as Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova in Goldeneye
(1995)
Occupation: Actress, Singer
Izabella Scorupco made her Hollywood debut in Martin
Campbell's GoldenEye, playing Natalya Simonova, a beautiful
and resourceful Russian computer specialist.
Polish-born Scorupco has been living in Sweden since
1978. At the age of 17, she starred in a Swedish film,
No One Can Love Like Us. She worked as a photographic
model and appeared in television commercials in Sweden
and Italy while also working in films and television
series. With the help of some musician friends, she
started singing for fun. She recorded a pop single,
"Substitute," in 1989, which became a gold
record in Sweden. Her album IZA, released shortly after,
and a 1991 single, "Shame, Shame," also went
gold.
In 1994, she played the lead role in a Swedish medieval
drama, St. Peter's Tears, directed by Erich Hortnagl.
She played the part of Carla Marcellini, who lives her
life as a man in order to survive.
She starred in the Polish hit With Fire and Sword and
The Diver, which completed shooting in Sweden just four
days before she started on Vertical Limit.
Scorupco lives in Sweden and has a two-year-old daughter,
Julia.