Early life

Miko was born Izabella Anna Mikołajczak in Łódź, Poland, the daughter of actors Grażyna Dyląg and Aleksander Mikołajczak. She grew up in Warsaw, where she studied to be a ballerina at the Chopin Music School. An American choreographer invited her to study in New York City on a scholarship with the School of American Ballet, and she later enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute to study acting. After sustaining a back injury, Miko left New York City and returned to Poland.

Career

In the late 1990s, Miko returned to the United States, and landed a role in the film Coyote Ugly in 2000. This was followed with a lead role in the 2001 vampire horror film The Forsaken, playing a young woman infected by a vampiric virus. In 2005, Miko appeared in a multi-episode story arc on the critically acclaimed HBO series Deadwood; the same year, she appeared in the music video for "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers (she would again collaborate with the band for the video of their 2012 single "Miss Atomic Bomb", breaking her foot during filming). In 2006, she had a lead role in Save the Last Dance 2, reprising the role of Julia Stiles in the original film.

Miko would appear in several independent films in the late 2000s, including Park (2007) opposite Melanie Lynskey, and the comedy Flakes (2007), opposite Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel, the latter of which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The following year, she appeared as a seductive nightclub singer in Dark Streets (2008), an adaptation of the play of the same name by Glenn M. Stewart. She also appeared in the crime thriller Double Identity (2009) in a lead role opposite Val Kilmer, and in the big-budget remake Clash of the Titans (2010) as Athena. She was also in a supporting role as an acrobat named Raia in the short lived television series The Cape, followed by a supporting role as a spy in the British war thriller Age of Heroes, based on the formation of Ian Fleming's No. 30 Commando during World War II.

In 2012, she appeared opposite Danny Huston and Sienna Miller in the period drama Two Jacks, directed by Bernard Rose, and in the South Korean dance film Make Your Move in 2013. Miko appeared in Billy Idol's music video for "Can't Break Me Down", and also had a supporting role in Step Up: All In, both in 2014. In 2015, Miko co-produced the autobiographical film Desert Dancer, which tells the story of Iranian choreographer Afshin Ghaffarian. The same year, she had guest appearances in the television series Blue Bloods, and Scorpion, as well as a recurring role in the NBC action-drama series Chicago Fire.

Personal life

Miko supports green politics and keeps a video blog titled Eko Miko to talk about her current concerns. She has supported Global Green USA, an environmentalist group and organization that constitutes the American branch of Green Cross International.

In 2008, Miko was romantically linked to Polish actor Maciej Zakościelny.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Mr. Blob in the Universe	The Girl with the Matches
1991	Niech zyje milosc	Kuba's Daughter
2000	Coyote Ugly	Cammie
2001	Forsaken, TheThe Forsaken	Megan
2002	Minimal Knowledge	Renee
2005	Bye Bye Blackbird	Alice
	Shore, TheThe Shore	Kaliope
2006	Park	Krysta
	House of Usher, TheThe House of Usher	Jill Michaelson
	Save the Last Dance 2	Sara Johnson	Video
2007	Crashing	Kristen
	Flakes	Strawberry
	Waiting	Young Woman	Short film
2008	Dark Streets	Madelaine
2009	Love and Dance	Hania
	Double Identity	Katrine
2010	Clash of the Titans	Athena
	Repo	Timmy
2011	Mother Nature: First MILF	Mother Nature	Video short
	Age of Heroes	Jensen
2012	Two Jacks	Dana
2013	Make Your Move	Tatianna
2014	Mundane Goddess, TheThe Mundane Goddess	Aphrodite	Short film
	Step Up: All In	Alexxa Brava
	Desert Dancer		Producer
2015	Frontier, TheThe Frontier	Gloria
2016	Rake, TheThe Rake	Cassie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Kuchnia polska	Zuzia Szymanko	TV miniseries
2004	Gramercy Park	Sophie Mansour	TV film
2005	Deadwood	Carrie	"Requiem for a Gleet", "Complications", "Something Very Expensive"
2008	Skip Tracer	Ludmila	TV film
2011	Cape, TheThe Cape	Raia	Recurring role
	Chaos	Greta	"Deep Cover Band"
	Love Bites	Audrey	"Boys to Men"
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Lena	"Russian Brides"
2014	Starving in Suburbia	Teagan / ButterflyAna	TV film
	Supernatural	Olivia	"Ask Jeeves"
	Anger Management	Mary Kathleen	"Charlie Gets Tied Up with a Catholic Girl"
	Sensitive Men	Jenn	TV film
2015	Blue Bloods	Milena	"Payback"
	Scorpion	Sonia Balasevic	"Cuba Libre"
	Chicago Fire	Katya	Recurring role
2016	Paradise Pictures	Norma Jean	TV film

Music videos

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	"Mr. Brightside" (The Killers)
2012	"Miss Atomic Bomb" (The Killers)	Miss Atomic Bomb
2014	"Can't Break Me Down" (Billy Idol)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]