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Ukrainian Star Olga Kurylenko Contracts Coronavirus


Mon 16 Mar 2020 | 02:41 PM
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The Ukrainian-born and French actress Olga Kurylenko announced on Monday that she has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.

On her Instagram account, the world-renowned actress, who starred in 2008's James Bond film 'Quantum of Solace' and 2013's sci-fi movie 'Oblivion' revealed that has contracted coronavirus, advising her fans to take care of themselves and take this seriously.

She added that she has been ill for a week now, pointing out that fever and fatigue were her main symptoms.

Kurylenko has recently finished shooting her upcoming movie The Bay Of Silence.

Kurylenko is the latest name from international entertainment industry to have contracted the COVID-19, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) last week.

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson became the first major Hollywood celebrities to contract the virus.

The couple were taken to hospital in Australia where Hanks had been filming an Elvis Presley movie directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Anyone who had come into contact with the couple during their stay in Australia was ordered into quarantine.

Facts about Olga Kurylenko:

Kurylenko was born in Berdiansk, Ukraine, then Ukrainian SSR. Her father, Konstantin, is Ukrainian, and her mother, Marina Alyabysheva, who teaches art and is an exhibited artist, was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is of Russian and Belarusian ancestry.

Her parents porced when she was three and she was raised by her single mother. Kurylenko rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time after the split when she was eight, and later when she was thirteen.

Olga starred opposite Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace as Bolivian secret agent Camille Montes, a role for which she did dialect training.

The Death Of Stalin actress, who was born in Soviet-era Ukraine but is now a French citizen, wrote her Instagram caption in both English and the Cyrillic alphabet.

Russian reports say she has lived in London for around a decade, but she did not say where she is undergoing quarantine.