Izabella Scorupco Pictures, Biography, Images, Videos, News

Izabella Dorota Scorupco was born on June 4th, 1970 in Bialystok, Poland, a northeastern town near the Russian border. When she was a young child, her mother, a doctor, and father, a musician, divorced, and 8-year-old Izabella moved with the former to Stockholm, Sweden. There, she took music and acting classes, and at age 17, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand. After her 1988 film debut in his Only We Can Love Like This, Izabella was off to a great start.

Despite the early film work, Izabella found most of her early success in modeling. Her first film made her a teenage star and brought the fashion world to her door. She quickly found herself in Italy, shooting a cover for Italian Vogue.

However, after a year of intensive modeling, Scorupco began to dislike the profession. She found that models weren't respected and weren't included enough in the creative process, so she returned to one of her first loves: music. She recorded a single, "Substitute" and an album, Iza (her nickname). Both went gold in Sweden, prompting a bigger fan base for the follow-up single, "Shame, Shame, Shame." Izabella's music has been characterized as disco-inspired and ABBA-like.