Kristina Koz-Gotlib

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Kristina Koz-Gotlib, a 25-year old model and student stand 1.75 m, won the finals of Miss Ukraine Universe 2009. The ceremony had reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela as special guest.

Koz-Gotlib will represent the Ukraine at the 2009 Miss Universe pageant to take place in July/August.

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Olga Kurylenko – Ukrainian model and actress

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Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (born November 14, 1979) is a Ukrainian model and actress. She is best known for being the Bond girl in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

Personal life

Olga Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) on November 14, 1979 to a mother of Russian descent and father of Ukrainian descent. When Olga was three years old her parents divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother. Olga rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time when she was 8 years old, and later again when she was 13. In 2000, Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric Van Mol, but the couple divorced four years later. In 2006 she married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabriel Neufeld. They divorced in late 2007. Kurylenko has lived in Paris since leaving Ukraine in 1996 to pursue her modeling career.

The fact she is the first Bond girl from a post-Soviet state got mixed reactions in the post-Soviet countries. The Saint-Pete

rsburg based Communist group KPLO has accused her of “moral and intellectual betrayal” in starring in a film about the “enemy of the Soviet people” (meaning James Bond), but the mayor of Berdyansk has suggested naming a street after her and she met Ukraine’s First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko in President Yushchenko’s family country house.

Career

She was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of thirteen. When she was 17 she signed a contract with the Paris-based Madison modeling agency. By the age of 18 she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle.

In 2005 Kurylenko began her film career in France. She received the certificate of excellence award at the 20

06 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L’Annulaire, and also starred in the Paris, je t’aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood. In 2007, Kurylenko starred in Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant. She played Bond girl Camille in the latest 007 film, Quantum of Solace, the 22nd film in the Bond Series.

Olga was featured on the cover of Maxim magazine’s December 2008 issue.

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