Izabella Scorupco

Polish/Swedish actress. Izabella Dorota Scorupco (born June 4, 1970 in Białystok, Poland, original last name was Skorupko) is a Polish/Swedish actress who is most famous for appearing as Bond girl <i>Natalya Simonova</i> in the 1995 James Bond film <i>GoldenEye</i>. She is the first Polish-born actress to play a Bond girl.

Scorupco was born in Białystok, Poland to Lech and Magdalena. When she was only one year old her parents split up and Izabella came to live with her mother. In 1978 the two moved to Stockholm, Sweden. Coming to Sweden as an 8 year old, she learned to speak Swedish and English, in addition to her native Polish.