IZABELLA SCORUPCO made her Hollywood debut in Martin Campbell's GoldenEye, playing Natalya Simonova, a beautiful and resourceful Russian computer specialist.

Polish-born Scorupco has been living in Sweden since 1978. At the age of 17, she starred in a Swedish film, No One Can Love Like Us. She worked as a photographic model and appeared in television commercials in Sweden and Italy while also working in films and television series. With the help of some musician friends, she started singing for fun. She recorded a pop single, "Substitute," in 1989, which became a gold record in Sweden. Her album IZA, released shortly after, and a 1991 single, "Shame, Shame," also went gold.

In 1994, she played the lead role in a Swedish medieval drama, St. Peter's Tears, directed by Erich Hortnagl. She played the part of Carla Marcellini, who lives her life as a man in order to survive.

She starred in the Polish hit With Fire and Sword and The Diver, which completed shooting in Sweden just four days before she started on Vertical Limit.

Scorupco lives in Sweden and has a two-year-old daughter, Julia.

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