Milla Jovovich Biography
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Milla Jovovich (Serbian: Милица Јововић (Milica
Jovović) Russian: Милица Йовович, born December 17, 1975, is an actress,
musician, and model currently living and working in the United States.
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Early life
Jovovich was born Milica Jovović in Kiev,
Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) to a Serbian doctor Bogić
Jovović and Ukrainian actress mother Galina Loginova Jovović. The family
moved to London, and then in 1981 to Sacramento, California when Milla
was five years old. Seven months later they settled in Los Angeles,
California.
Career
At the age of just eleven, she was spotted
by the photographer Richard Avedon who featured her in Revlon's "Most
Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In October 1987, she
was featured on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine Lei which was
to be the first of her many cover shoots. She continued to model, and
released a music CD prior to appearing in her first film Two Moon
Junction in 1988. Her appearence in Return to the Blue Lagoon in 1991
led to inevitable comparisons between her and another child
model-turned-actress, Brooke Shields (who had starred in the original
Blue Lagoon eleven years earlier). Most of her early appearances were in
supporting or cameo roles.
By the late 1990s, she was receiving top
billing and entered the world of action heroes with her performances in
The Fifth Element and in two popular movies based upon the survival
horror series, Resident Evil (she has reportedly signed for two more
films in this series for release in 2006 and 2007).
In 1994, Jovovich, billed under her first
name, Milla, released her critically acclaimed first musical album, The
Divine Comedy. Featuring many original songs, the album led to
comparisons with Tori Amos and Kate Bush. Though she began to
concentrate more on her acting than her musical career, her vocals
appeared on the 2004 album Legion of Boom by The Crystal Method.
Personal life
Jovovich married Shawn Andrews in October
of 1992 during the filming of Dazed and Confused; the marriage was
annulled a month later. She later married The Fifth Element director Luc
Besson in 1997, but they later divorced in 1999. She was briefly engaged
to writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson (Resident Evil) in 2003.
Jovovich is multilingual and speaks
Serbian, Russian, French and English fluently, and has the Ukrainian
nationality.
Family history
Her family is Montenegrin in origin, their
estate being at Metohija in Zlopek near Peć. Her great-grandfather Bogić
Camić Jovović was flag-bearer of the Vasojevići tribe, and officer of
the guard of the King Nicholas I of Montenegro; his wife's name was also
Militza. Her grandfather Bogdan Jovović was a commander in the Pristina
military area, and later investigated finances in military areas of
Skopje and Sarajevo, where he uncovered massive gold embezzlement. He
was punished for refusing to convict his friend for the crime. Later,
the communist government imprisoned him on Goli Otok. When he feared
that he could be arrested again, he escaped to Albania and later came to
the Soviet Union, in Kiev. Another version of the story claims that he
actually was the one to have taken the gold. Milla's father, Bogić
Jovović, later joined her grandfather in Kiev, where he and his sister
graduated in medicine
Filmography
Year Movie Role Other notes
2007 Resident Evil 4 Alice (announced)
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction Alice
(pre-production)
2006 .45 Unknown (post-production)
2006 Ultraviolet Violet
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse Alice
2002 You Stupid Man Nadine
2002 No Good Deed Erin
2002 Resident Evil Alice
2002 Dummy Fangora 'Fanny' Gurkel
2001 Zoolander Katinka Ingabogovinanana
2000 The Claim Lucia
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel Eloise
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of
Arc Joan of Arc
1998 He Got Game Dakota Burns
1997 The Fifth Element Leeloo
1993 Dazed and Confused Michelle Burroughs
1992 Kuffs Maya Carlton
1992 Chaplin Mildred Harris
1991 Return to the Blue Lagoon Lilli
Hargrave
1988 The Night Train to Kathmandu Lily
McLeod (TV)
1988 Two Moon Junction Samantha Delongpre
Discography
The Divine Comedy - released April 1994
(single: "Gentleman Who Fell")
The People Tree Sessions - unauthorized
1998 release that still turns up with Amazon and other retailers
Compilations that include Milla:
The Million Dollar Hotel - "Satellite of
Love"
Hollywood Goes Wild benefit compilation -
"On the Hill" by her band, Plastic Has Memory
Underworld - "Rocket Collecting"
The Prince and Me - "Separate Worlds"
The Rules of Attraction - "The Gentleman
Who Fell"
Trivia
She has bluish-green eyes and brown hair.
Her last name is pronounced Yov-o-vitch (/ˈjovoviʧ/
in IPA).
She is an "international spokesmodel" for
L'Oreal cosmetics.
She once fronted a band called Plastic Has
Memory.
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