Biography of Izabella ScorupcoIzabella Dorota Scorupco was born on June 4th, 1970 in Bialystok, Poland, a northeastern town near the Russian border. When she was a young child, her mother, a doctor, and father, a musician, divorced, and 8-year-old Izabella moved with the former to Stockholm, Sweden. There, she took music and acting classes, and at age 17, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand. After her 1988 film debut in his Only We Can Love Like This, Izabella was off to a great start.
woman of many trades
Despite the early film work, Izabella found most of her early success in modeling. Her first film made her a teenage star and brought the fashion world to her door. She quickly found herself in Italy, shooting a cover for Italian Vogue.
However, after a year of intensive modeling, Scorupco began to dislike the profession. She found that models weren't respected and weren't included enough in the creative process, so she returned to one of her first loves: music. She recorded a single, "Substitute" and an album, Iza (her nickname). Both went gold in Sweden, prompting a bigger fan base for the follow-up single, "Shame, Shame, Shame." Izabella's music has been characterized as disco-inspired and ABBA-like.
back to the acting board
But, true to form, Izabella yearned for something different. She appeared in a 1991 Polish miniseries, and then finally made the full leap back into acting with the lead role in the 1995 Scandinavian feature, Petri tårar. That same year, she struck gold when she starred in her first Hollywood blockbuster: GoldenEye. In Pierce Brosnan's first outing as James Bond, Izabella portrayed a particularly brainy Bond Girl.
Before returning to the Hollywood spotlight, Scorupco married NHL hockey player Mariusz Czerkawski in 1996 and had a daughter, Julia, in 1997. The two were divorced in 2000. Meanwhile, Scorupco starred in the Polish feature With Fire and Sword in 1999, and the Swedish film The Diver in 2000.
la vita izabella
In January 1999, Izabella became the spokesperson for Oriflame, a renowned cosmetics company. She served as a media representative for the company and took a firsthand role in charitable events. In 2000, Scorupco returned to Hollywood with a role in Vertical Limit (in which she had to spend lots of time rock climbing), followed by 2002's sci-fi adventure, Reign of Fire.
Izabella Scorupco still lives mostly in Europe, though she is becoming more open to Southern California. Expect to see more of this bombshell in future films.
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