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Video: James Bond girl - 50: How she conquered the world of cinema and why the personal life of the refined beauty Isabella Skorupko did not work out
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The heroine of our today's review is a famous Polish-Swedish film actress, Isabella Skorupko, which, despite her 50s, still delights the audience with refined beauty and grace. At one time, she conquered the world with her acting skills in the role of a James Bond girl, as well as Elena Kurtsevich's pannochka in the film epic "With Fire and Sword". And these are not all the talents of the actress, worthy of admiration.
Isabella was born in Poland, spent her childhood in Sweden, has lived in America for many years … She changed not only her place of residence, but also her hair color, men and occupation - she was a model, singer, actress, even a screenwriter. The only thing that remained completely unchanged was her incredible beauty. In the ranking of the most beautiful Polish actresses, her name is in the forefront. However, good looks are only half of what has led Isabella to incredible success and worldwide popularity. Her talent as an actress, singer, model is no less admirable.
Turning the pages of a biography
Movie star Isabella Dorota Skorupko was born on June 4 in 1970 in the Polish city of Bialystok. However, only her early childhood passed in Poland. Isabella's parents divorced when the baby was only a year old. In 1978, the girl's mother remarried and took her to Stockholm.
In Sweden, the future actress graduated from high school, mastered Swedish, English and French, began to sing, dance and even write scripts. She entered the university, where she was noticed by representatives of a modeling agency, who offered the girl lucrative contracts. And the spectacular slender blonde became a model. She participated in shows in many European cities, starred for glossy magazines. It was in Sweden that her film debut took place - at the age of eighteen she played the main character in the film "Nobody can love like us." True, the tape did not have much success. And young Isabella decided to take up vocals.
As a pop singer, Isabella recorded her first music album "IZA", the track list of which included fourteen songs, and it became "gold" in Sweden. However, the first disc remained the only one - Skorupko returned to the cinema and began acting in television series and films.
Along with filming, she worked as a model. Her parameters were 88-62-89 with a height of 175 cm and a weight of 55 kg. And, of course, with such external data Skorupko was a very popular model. She has appeared on the covers of various magazines, including the Italian one - "Vogue".
However, the actress gained wide popularity when, in 1995, the seventeenth Bond film, Golden Eye, was released on screens all over the world. Isabella became the first Polish girlfriend of Agent 007, playing the hot and dangerous Natalia Simonova, a Russian programmer. Of the hundreds of applicants, the producers chose her. And everyone won. Working in this large-scale and iconic project instantly brought the actress worldwide popularity. The tandem with Pierce Brosnan was an overwhelming success.
Four years later, the name of the actress again thundered all over the world. This time Isabella was fully lucky to reveal her acting talent in the image of the beautiful Elena Kurtsevich in the historical film "With Fire and Sword" by Jerzy Hoffmann based on the famous novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. And here the tandem of Isabella Skorupko with the famous Polish actor Michal Zhebrovsky was a resounding success. By the way, actors from both Russia and Ukraine, represented by Alexander Domogarov, Bogdan Stupka, Ruslana Pysanka, were involved in this film.
For more information about making a film, about the actors, about what's left behind the scenes, read: What and why the director Hoffman changed in the popular novel "With Fire and Sword" while shooting the film.
Isabella Skorupko's model career also developed successfully - in 1999 she signed a contract with the famous Swedish company Oriflame, a giant of the cosmetics industry, and became the face of the company.
In 2000, Isabella starred as mountain climber Monique Obertin in Martin Campbell's adventure film Vertical Limit. In 2002, she became the heroine of Rob Bowman's adventure fantasy thriller The Power of Fire. In 2004, she starred in the horror film "The Exorcist: The Beginning" by Rennie Harlin. In 2005, Isabella appeared in Jay Jay Abrams' science fiction series The Spy. After that, the actress again turned to work in Swedish cinema. In 2007, the girl starred in Leif Lindblom's detective thriller "Solar Storm", and in 2010 - in the drama "Guardian Angel" by Johan Brisinger. And this is not the whole list of films by actress Isabella Skorupko.
Personal life of the actress
Unfortunately, the actress's personal life was more and more complicated. Having married at the age of 26 to the Polish hockey player Mariusz Cherkawski, she moved to live in America. A year later, she gave birth to a daughter, Julia, and a year later, she and her husband divorced, remaining good friends.
Two years after the divorce, the actress began to appear in the company of the Hollywood handsome Matthew McConaughey. They starred together in the fantasy action movie "The Power of Fire". However, the beautiful novel remained only a novel in Isabella's life.
The second time the actress tried to find female happiness in marriage in 2002, she married the American Jeffrey Raymond. In 2003 she gave birth to a son, Jacob. Unfortunately, this marriage also ended in divorce, and today Isabella is a free woman.
And if her personal life did not really stick together, then her career, on the contrary, was rapidly going uphill. She was invited by various film studios in Scandinavia, Sweden and Poland. She starred a lot in Hollywood. Over time, Isabella became the star of not only European but also world cinema.
Despite her not young age, Isabella looks great, she is still in demand in the film industry. The actress herself believes that age is only a figure in the passport. Once during an interview, Isabella was asked:
In 2018, Skorupko's films Hidden (Held) and The Disbelief of Anna Bell Zeigler (Harriet Zeigler) were released.
The actress lives in Los Angeles and New York. She looks great, she is still called to appear for glossy magazines.
Polish cinema is one of the most developed in Eastern Europe, and Polish actresses, according to many, are considered the most beautiful. This is confirmed by the famous film by Jerzy Hoffmann "The Witch Doctor", with Anna Dymna in the title role. Read our review about it: Offscreen secrets of the film "Witch Doctor": How much was a gorgeous bouquet of roses thrown at the feet of the main character.
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