Victoria Silvstedt, is a Swedish model, actress and singer. She is also a radio and TV hostess, a published singer, and a former national-level skier in Sweden.
Karen Victoria Silvstedt is a Swedish model, a Playboy Playmate of the Year and an actress. She is also a radio and TV hostess, a published singer, and a former national-level skier in Sweden. Like many glamour models and Playmates before her, she is trying to branch out into acting and business. Silvstedt claims that her favorite hobby is singing, and in 2001 she recorded an album called Girl On the Run, released by EMI, which achieved gold record status in Sweden with the hit singles, "Rocksteady Love" featuring Turbo B and "Hello, Hey".
Izabella Dorota Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish actress who is most famous for appearing as Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is the first Polish-born actress to play a Bond girl.She worked as a model and in 1989 she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the movie Ingen kan älska som vi (Nobody loves like us). In the early nineties, she also had a brief but successful career as a pop singer, releasing an album which went gold in Sweden.
Silvstedt was the first runner-up in the Miss Sweden pageant which was won by Johanna Lind.After losing that she was then signed by a Parisian modeling agent and began a career in high fashion, working for various companies including Chanel, Christian Dior, Loris Azzaro, Givenchy, Valentino, and Giorgio Armani.In 1993, Silvstedt appeared in Girls of Northern Europe , in which she was photographed in frontal nudity three years before appearing in Playboy in 1996. After being approached by Hugh Hefner to be recruited as a Playboy centerfold, she appeared as the Playmate of the Month in the December 1996 issue of Playboy, and she was soon selected as the Playmate of the Year in 1997. She has been featured in numerous magazines, including GQ, Maxim, FHM, Gear, and Nuts, where in 2005 she came in second to actress Jennifer Ellison in a competition to find the Sexiest Blonde in the World.