Izabella Scorupco

Izabella Scorupco (born Izabela Dorota Skorupko; 4 June 1970) is a Polish-Swedish actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played a Bond girl, Natalya Simonova, in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is also known for her cover of the Shirley & Company song "Shame, Shame, Shame" which was released in 1992 and became a European hit.

Personal life Scorupco was born to Lech, a musician, and Magdalena Skorupko, a doctor, in Białystok, Poland, in 1970. When she was one year old, her parents separated, and she remained with her mother. In 1978, they moved to Bredäng in Stockholm, Sweden, where Scorupco learned to speak Swedish, English and French.

On 25 December 1996, Scorupco married Polish ice hockey player Mariusz Czerkawski. They had one daughter together. They divorced in 1998.

On 30 January 2003, Scorupco married an American, Jeffrey Raymond; they have a son, Jakob (born 24 July 2003). They divorced in 2015. She now lives in Los Angeles and New York City. Since 2017, Scorupco has been in a relationship with Karl Rosengren. They married on 6 October 2019. In 2014, Scorupco became an American citizen.

Career In the late 1980s, Scorupco travelled throughout Europe working as a model, and appeared on the cover of Vogue. In 1987, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the film Ingen kan älska som vi ("Nobody can love like us"). In the early 1990s, she had a brief but successful career as a pop singer, releasing the album IZA, which was certified gold in Sweden in 1991. Her 1992 cover version of "Shame, Shame, Shame" was a hit in several European countries.

In 2011, Scorupco reprised her singing career, duetting with Swedish musician Peter Jöback in his single Jag Har Dig Nu and featuring in the song's music video. She also starred in Jöback's short extension film La vie, L'amour, La mort. Scorupco went on to host the spring 2012 series of Sweden's Next Top Model but did not continue it for a second series.

Scorupco moved into comedy in July 2013 when she was named to a lead role in a Swedish romantic comedy film, Micke & Veronica, alongside David Hellenius. It premiered on 25 December 2014.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1988 Ingen kan älska som vi Annelie 1991 Bert Zindy Dabrowski V som i viking The Single Mother TV mini-series 1995 Det var en mörk och stormig natt Petronella Short Petri Tårar Carla GoldenEye Natalya Simonova 1999 With Fire and Sword Helena Kurcewiczówna 2000 Dykaren Irena Walde Vertical Limit Monique Aubertine 2002 Reign of Fire Alex Jensen 2004 Exorcist: The Beginning Sarah Novak 2005 Alias Sabina TV series, Season 4, Episode 15: "Pandora" 2007 Cougar Club Daniella Stack Solstorm Rebecka Martinsson 2010 Änglavakt Cecilia 2014 Micke & Veronica Veronica 2017 Sleepwalker Dr. Cooper 2018 Hidden Eldh TV series The Undreaming of Anna Bell Zeigler Harriet Zeigler 2023 Barracuda Queens Margareta Millkvist TV series

Discography Studio albums Title Album details Peak chart position SWE IZA Released: 1991 Label: Virgin/Warner Music Formats: CD, digital download 11

Singles Title Year Peak chart positions Album AUS AUT BEL(FL) GER NL NOR SWE "Substitute" 1990 — — — — — — 3 — IZA "I Write You a Love Song" 1991 140 — — 93 — — 10 — "Brando Moves" — — — — — — 37 — "Shame, Shame, Shame" 1992 — 22 4 37 7 2 3 39 "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.