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Izabella Miko Profile |
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Birth Date: January 21, 1981
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Birth Place: Lodz, Poland
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Birth Name: Izabella Anna Mikolajczak
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Biography |
Izabella Miko is
a Polish actress and model.
Miko was born in Łódź, Poland to Grażyna Dyląg and
Aleksander Mikołajczak, both of whom were actors. She grew
up in Warsaw, where she studied to be a ballerina. An
American choreographer invited her to study in New York City
on a scholarship, and she travelled there with her mother on
her fifteenth birthday.
Three of Miko's best-known roles are Cammie in Coyote Ugly
(2000), Carrie in HBO's Deadwood, and as a dancer in The
Killers video for Mr Brightside.
Izabella Anna Mikołajczak(artist name: Izabella Miko) began
her career as a ballerina. Izabella Miko moved between
Poland and America before launching herself in the Hollywood
scene with roles in such well-liked features as Coyote Ugly
(2000, playing Cammie) and The Forsaken (2001), and is
popular to TV audiences as Carrie in HBO’s “Deadwood”
(2005). She also played roles in films like Minimal
Knowledge (2002), Bye Bye Blackbird (2005), The Shore (2005)
and Steppin’ Up: Save the Last Dance 2 (2006). Miko’s
admirers should look forward to her performances in the
upcoming The House of Usher, Flakes (2006), Crashing (2006)
and Park (2006).
Wanting to become a ballerina, 7-year-old Izabella attended
Chopin Music School in Poland, where she studied ballet,
voice, and piano. This young girl was so good that a
choreographer invited her to come to New York City on a full
scholarship and study at the School of American Ballet when
she was 15. After knee and ankle injuries, she moved back to
her native country for recovery.
While in Poland, a casting director offered this aimless
teenager a part in TV movie Lithuania You’re My Motherland
and she received the offer. She soon found a click with
acting and then made her way back to America in the mid
‘90s, this time as an actor. Izabella was trained at The Lee
Strasberg Theatre Institute.
After finishing her acting training, Izabella Miko made her
Hollywood debut with a much sought after role in director
David McNally’s Coyote Ugly (2000), playing the heartbreaker
Cammie. The film was a hit and, as for Miko, she became an
instant star. In addition to securing more film roles, she
was featured on numerous magazine’s covers and billboards.
The musical film also starred Piper Perabo, Sanford Adam
Garcia, John Goodman and Maria Bello.
The actress’ sophomore effort came in the following year
when she was tapped by director J.S. Cardone to star
opposite Kerr Smith and Brendan Fehr in the horror movie The
Forsaken, as Megan, while in 2002, she was able to add
Minimal Knowledge (2002), written and directed by Gregory J.
Corrado, to her burgeoning acting resume.
Disappearing from the screen for some time, Izabella Miko
returned to make her Hollywood TV acting debut in 2005 with
a memorable recurring role, playing Carrie in the HBO
western series “Deadwood,” which starred Timothy Olyphant
and Ian McShane. The beautiful actress also found herself
costarring with hugely accomplished actors Derek Jacobi and
Michael Lonsdale in the drama film Bye Bye Blackbird (2005),
portraying circus trapeze artist in the early 1900s Alice.
Next up for Miko, she was the star of Dionysius Zervos’s The
Shore (2005), opposite Lesley Ann Warren and Ben Gazzara.
Izabella Miko recently starred with Jacqueline Bisset in the
Kwame Nyanning-written drama Steppin’ Up: Save the Last
Dance 2 (2006), and has four more films in productions. She
also plays the role of Jill Michaelson in the film
adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The House of Usher and will
be costarring along side Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel
in Michael Lehmann’s comedy Flakes (2006) before teaming up
with actor Campbell Scott and director-writer Gary Walkow in
the drama Crashing (2006). Miko also stars as Krysta in Park
(2006), a drama film helmed and written by Kurt Voelker |
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Other
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She loves learning new languages; and is currently learning
to speak Italian. She is already fluent in Polish, English
and French! |
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