Izabella Scorupco

Izabella Scorupco is an actress, singer and model from Poland and Sweden whose best known role is the Bond girl Natalya Simonova in GoldenEye (1995). Born in Białystok, she started out in the late 1980s as a model traveling around Europe and appeared on the cover of Vogue. Director Staffan Hildebrand discovered her in 1987, and she starred that year in Ingen kan älska som vi. In the early 1990s she turned to pop music, releasing the album IZA, certified gold in Sweden in 1991, while her 1992 recording of Shame, Shame, Shame became a hit in several European countries. She sang again in 2011, duetting with Peter Jöback on Jag Har Dig Nu, and starred in his short film La vie, L'amour, La mort. In 2012 she hosted a series of Sweden's Next Top Model, and she took a lead, alongside David Hellenius, in the Swedish romantic comedy Micke & Veronica, which premiered on 25 December 2014.