Izabella Miko

Born to a pair of Polish actors Grazyna Dylag and Aleksander Mikolajczak Izabella Anna Mikolajczak made her first appearance in Lodz Poland on January 21 1981 at 315 am When she was ten years old she auditioned for the National Ballet School in Warsaw At the age of 14 Izabella left Warsaw for Biennale to study ballet in a summer workshop where an American choreographer discovered her and invited her to NYC to study ballet on a scholarship On her fifteenth birthday Izabella left Warsaw Poland for New York New York Izabella auditioned for the highly acclaimed SAB School of American Ballet and soon after her acceptance moved into the SAB dormitory After two and onehalf years at the SAB Izabella suffered an injury to her vertebrae She quit dancing and returned to Poland  Casting directors calling with jobs for her parents offered Izabella a role in a silent made for television movie called Lithuania You Are My Motherland directed by Tadeusz Bystram The movie was shot on location in Poland Russia and Lithuania Izabella rejoiced Acting filled the void that dancing had left behind Izabella studied acting at Strassberg and began modeling with Q models but acting lessons and modeling does not an actor make To act one needs an agent and agents live in LA Once in the City of Angels Izabella became a prisoner of public transportation and her snickers walking to almost all of her appointments While in Los Angeles She began to work unofficially with a huge agent this in turn led to her first audition for Jerry Bruckheimers Coyote Ugly Slew of films followed in years ahead utilizing Izabellas all or nothing attitude Izabella lives in Los Angeles and New York respectively