Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French model and actress
Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko (Ukrainian: Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко; Russian: О́льга Константи́новна Куриле́нко; born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian-French actress and model. She started her acting career in 2005. She first found success as an actress for her role as Nika Boronina in the film adaptation of the video game Hitman (2007). She is best known as Bond girl Camille Montes in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008) and as the supervillain Taskmaster in the Marvel Studios film, Black Widow (2021).
She also notably starred in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Seven Psychopaths (2012), the Tom Cruise science fiction film Oblivion (2013), Armando Iannucci's political satire film The Death of Stalin (2017), and Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).
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Events on 1979
- 1Feb
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile. - 11Feb
Ruhollah Khomeini
The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. - 16Mar
People's Liberation Army
Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war. - 15Jul
Malaise speech
U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". - 16Dec
OPEC
Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.