Izabella Scorupco

First Name: Izabella
Last Name: Scorupco
Nationality: Swede (Polish)
Full Name: Izabella Dorota Skorupko
Date of Birth: 4 June 1970
Birthplace: Bialystok
Height: 5'6½" (169cm)
Star Sign: Gemini

Profession: Actress and Singer

Biography:
Scorupco was born on June 4, 1970, in Bialystock, an industrial town in northeast Poland, to Madgelena and Lech Scorupco. Her mother, a doctor, and her father, a jazz musician, divorced when she was one (her father died 18 years later). In 1978, Scorupco and her mother relocated to a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. There, Scorupco took various singing and acting courses and began composing her own plays, which she would bully her classmates into performing. From ages 12 to 13, she visited a Catholic convent to study French. Though she claims to have spent most of her time there frequenting
nightclubs, French is one of several languages that she speaks fluently. Scorupco's big break came at 17 when Swedish
film director Staffan Hildebrand stopped at her school while on a promotional tour. Determined to get the filmmaker's
attention, Scorupco bombarded Hildebrand with questions and then convinced him that the plot of his next film, about a
child of divorce who wants to travel north to see her father, mirrored her own life experience. Impressed, Hildebrand
cast her in the film, 1988's Ingen Kan Älska Som Vi (There Is No Love Like Ours), which made her a teenage idol.

After graduation, Scorupco traveled throughout Europe, acting in television commercials and modeling (she even appeared
on the cover of Italian Vogue). In her spare time, she would sing with friends who were musicians and eventually decided
to make a record. In 1989, Scorupco released the ABBA-inspired song "Substitute." The single went gold in Sweden, along
with its album, IZA (released in the States as Independence by IZA). In 1991, she followed up her success with a second
album and the pop single "Shame, Shame, Shame." That same year, Scorupco returned to acting for the television miniseries V Som I Viking (The Single Mother). She also met and fell in love with Polish ice hockey player Mariusz Czerskawski. In 1994, after Scorupco finished filming her role in the medieval drama Petri Tårar (The Tears of Saint Peter) (1995), Czerskawski began playing for the National Hockey League and the couple relocated to the United States.

Filmography:

2010 Änglavakt
2007 Solstorm
2007 Cougar Club
2005 Alias - Die Agentin
2004 Exorzist: Der Anfang
2002 Die Herrschaft des Feuers
2000 Vertical Limit
2000 Dykaren
1999 Ogniem i mieczem
1995 James Bond 007 - GoldenEye
1995 Petri tårar
1995 Det var en mörk och stormig natt
1994 Bert
1991 V som i viking
1988 Ingen kan älska som vi

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