Izabella
Scorupco (Natalya Simonova)
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Datastream
Actress: Izabella Dorota Scorupco
Character: Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova
Movie: GoldenEye
Date of Birth: 4/06/70
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Place of Birth: Bialystok, Poland
Trivia: She claims to have gone without food for four months,
only drinking water, to get in shape for modeling.
Pleased To Meet You
Natalya Simonova first meets James Bond when the pair are
tied up in the stolen Tiger with the helicopter's missiles
set to destroy itself. By kicking and screaming she wakes
007 up from his slumber just in time for him to make good
their escape.
Caught In The Act
Natalya and Bond share their first intimate moments in a
Cuban beach house during a rest-bite before commencing the
search for Trevelyan's GoldenEye control facility.
Profile
Natalya Simonova is a level two programmer at the Severnaya
Space Weapons Control Centre before it is destroyed by a
blast from one of the two GoldenEye satellites set-off by
the Janus Crime Syndicate. She escapes as the only survivor,
but is double-crossed by Boris and is taken captive by Ourumov and Onatopp. |
Bond first meets Natalya when they are tied up in the stolen
Tiger helicopter, but the pair escape only to be captured
again by the Russian authorities. Forming an uneasy alliance
in the beginning, Bond comes to her rescue in a tank after
Ourumov disrupts the interrogation and flees in a car through
the streets of St. Petersburg. After Bond calls Trevelyan's
bluff on the train and shoots Ourumov, Natalya helps track
down Boris and the second GoldenEye control facility whilst
Bond makes good their escape. She accompanies Bond to Cuba
in search of Trevelyan and proves a useful ally when she
thwarts the computer system and causes the destruction of
the second satellite.
"Stop it, both of you. You
are like boys with toys!" |
Memorable Quotes
Natalya: How can you act like this, how can you be so cold?
Bond: That's what keeps me alive.
Natalya: No. That's what keeps you alone.
Natalya: Do you destroy every vehicle you get into?
Bond: Standard operating procedure. Boys with toys.
Natalya: What is it with you and moving vehicles?
Natalya: I'm not going on a helicopter with you. No plane. No
train. Nothing that moves.
Bond: Darling, what could possibly go wrong?
Natalya: This is not one of your games, Boris. Real people will
die, you pathetic little worm!
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Biography
Izabella Scorupco was born in the northern Polish
town of Bialystok in 1970. Her parents divorced when she
was a year old. She lived there with her mother, Magdelena
who was a doctor. In 1978 they moved to a Stockholm suburb
where she attended grade school there. She studied drama
and music and, at 17, was discovered by a Swedish film director
who cast her in the movie No One Can Love Like Us, which
made her a local teenage idol. Izabella turned modeling
in 1987 and has appeared in nearly every major European
magazine. She became a successful model both in Sweden and
throughout Europe, where she made good use of her fluency
in four languages.
In 1989, Scorupco displayed another facet of her talents,
launching her career as a pop singer with her first single,
Substitute. The single and subsequent album, IZA, both went
gold, and she followed them up with another hit single,
Shame, Shame, which she recorded in 1991. Returning to acting
in 1994, she immediately won the lead role in the Swedish
film Petri Tears. Scorupco starred as a woman who lives
her life as a man in the medieval drama, which was released
in August 1995. |
Her big break came when a Swedish casting
director recommended her to be in the James Bond film GoldenEye.
"This is politically correct. Bond doesn't fall in love
with my character (Natalya) for her looks. It's her intelligence,"
she said. Scorupco had to forgo the usual glamour of a Bond girl
in GoldenEye. Her character, Natalya Simonova, a computer
programmer, does not have much of a chance to relish the
good life with 007. Scorupco, though, saw the positive aspects.
"I think it's a fantastic opportunity. To be in a Bond film,
and at the same time to be able to do just a very human
character."
On Christmas Day in December 1996 Izabella married hockey
player Mariusz Czerkawski at the Little White Chapel in
Las Vegas. She gave birth to daughter Julia in September
1997, but later split with Czerkawski. She then moved to
Los Angeles and is currently dating Jeffrey Raymond, the
couple had a son, Jacob Martin Raymond, in July 2003.
Since her role in "GoldenEye", Scorupco turned
down the lead roles in "L.A. Confidential" (1997)
and "The Mask Of Zorro" (1998) directed by Martin
Campbell to take a break from her career, but she hooked
up with the Bond helmer for "Vertical Limit" in
2000.