Izabella Anna Mikolajczak (born January 21, 1981), better known as Izabella Miko, is a Polish actress and model. Miko was born in Lodz, Poland to Grazyna Dylag and Aleksander Mikolajczak, 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 traveled 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. She also played the role of Sara Johnson in Save The Last Dance 2. Miko was ranked #48 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001.

She also played roles in films like Minimal Knowledge (2002), Bye Bye Blackbird (2005), The Shore (2005) and Save the Last Dance 2 (2006), The House of Usher, Flakes (2006), Crashing (2006), Park (2006) and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008).

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