17 December 1975, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Birth Name
Milica Natasha Jovovich
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Mini Biography
Milla Jovovich is an Ukrainian-born actress, supermodel, appearance designer, accompanist and accessible figure, who was on the awning of added than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the 'Resident Evil' franchise.She was built-in Milica Natasha Jovovich on December 17, 1975, in Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Kiev, Ukraine). Her Serbian father, Bogdan Jovovich, was a medical doctor in Kiev. There he met her mother Galina Jovovich, a Russian actress. At the age of 5, in 1981, Milla with her parents emigrated from the Soviet Union, affective aboriginal to London, UK, again to Sacramento, California, and eventually acclimatized in Los Angeles. There her parents formed as house-cleaners for the domiciliary of administrator Brian De Palma. Her parents separated, and eventually divorced, because her ancestor was arrested and spent several years in prison.
Young Milla Jovovich was brought up by her distinct mother in Los Angeles. In accession to her built-in Russian, she additionally speaks Serbian and English. However, in animosity of her catholic background, Milla was abandoned by some of her classmates, as a kid who emigrated from the Soviet Union amidst the paranoia of the Cold War. Many affecting scars had afflicted her behavior, but she eventually emerged as a resilient, multi talented, admitting alienated and adventurousness girl. She was accomplished by her extra mother back her childhood, aboriginal at home, again advised music, ballet, and acting in Los Angeles. In 1994 she appeared on the awning of 'High Times' in the UK, at the age of 18.She attempt to all-embracing acclaim afterwards she was spotted by the columnist Richard Avedon at the age of 11, and was featured in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, and on the awning of the Italian appearance annual 'Lei' which was her aboriginal awning shoot. She fabricated her aboriginal able archetypal arrangement at the age of 12, and anon fabricated it to the awning of 'The Face', 'Vogue', 'Cosmopolitan' and abounding added magazines. The absolute cardinal of her annual covers common was over one hundred by 2004, and keeps counting. In 2004 she fabricated $10.4 million, acceptable the accomplished paid supermodel in the world.
Milla Jovovich was broken amid two professions, afore she eventually became one of the actual few supermodels who additionally developed a abiding and austere blur career. In 1988, at age 12, she fabricated her blur admission accustomed as Milla in a acknowledging role in Two Moon Junction (1988) by writer/director Zalman King. During the 1980s and aboriginal 1990s, she played several acknowledging roles as a boyish extra in blur and on television, again starred in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). In 1997 she co-starred adverse Bruce Willis in the sci-if blockbuster The Fifth Element (1997), again she starred as the appellation appearance of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). In the aboriginal 2000s, Milla had a few years of ambiguity in her acting career due to asperous affection of her films, as able-bodied as some animated contest in her clandestine life. However, she managed to affected her claimed crisis. With the arch role as Alice in Resident Evil (2002) and its two sequels, she accustomed herself as a blur star, and her success in acting career eventually akin her success as a supermodel.
Outside of her acting and clay professions, Milla Jovovich appear several alarmingly acclaimed agreeable recordings, authoritative her admission as a singer, songwriter and artist with the 1994 absolution of 'The Divine Comedy'. She additionally gave several alive performances with her bandage Plastic Has Memory and was featured on 'Hollywood Goes Wild'. Her articulate recordings appeared on soundtracks of several films. She has been autograph music and lyrics to her song-demos, arena her guitar and sampling added sounds from her computer, and acceptance chargeless download and remix of her songs from her website.
For abounding years Milla Jovovich has been advancement a convalescent lifestyle, practicing yoga and meditation, aggravating to abstain clutter food, and affable for herself. Since she was a little girl, Milla has been autograph a clandestine diary, a addiction she abstruse from her mother. She has been befitting a almanac of abounding acceptable and bad facts of her life, her travels, her relationships, and all important account and contest in her career, planning eventually to broadcast an autobiography. After dissolution of her two antecedent marriages, Milla Jovovich became affianced to blur administrator Paul W.S. Anderson; their daughter, Ever Anderson, was built-in on November 3, 2007.
Milla's advance starring role in motion pictures came in 'Luc Besson''s science fiction thriller, The Fifth Element (1997) adverse Bruce Willis. Her assuming of a "perfect being" who holds the key to preventing angry from antibacterial the apple won the hearts of admirers and critics alike. She followed that success with a role as a prostitute in Spike Lee's He Got Bold (1998) with Denzel Washington. Next, Milla followed in the footsteps of such awning legends as Ingrid Bergman and Jean Seberg to accomplish analytical acclamation as Joan of Arc in the appellation role of Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999).She abutting appeared with Mel Gibson in Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) which premiered at the Berlin Blur Festival. She went on to co-star with Wes Bentley and Sarah Polley in The Claim (2000) and in Ben Stiller's bluff of the apple of models and high-fashion, Zoolander(2001).
Milla accomplished box appointment success in the U.S. and about the apple with the action-packed thriller, Resident Angry (2002), based on the berserk accepted video game, Resident Evil. It was accounting and directed by 'Paul W.S. Anderson'. Milla reprised her role as the crank annihilation heroine, Alice, in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and afresh in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). She accustomed aglow reviews adverse Oscar-winnerAdrien Brody and Illeana Douglas in Dummy (2002) which premiered at the Toronto Blur Festival. In the bounce of 2006, Milla alternate to the big awning as activity heroine, Violet, in the affected blur Ultraviolet (2006) directed by Kurt Wimmer.Focusing on her claimed faculty of style, her adulation of appearance led Milla and her acquaintance and business partner, Carmen Hawk, to barrage their Jovovich-Hawk accouterment line, which accomplished burning acclamation in the calm and all-embracing appearance world. The fresh, different band garnered the absorption of red carpeting watchers and appearance magazines, including American Vogue, who featured Jovovich-Hawk on their coveted account of "10 Things To Watch Out For In 2005."
A apprentice of articulation and guitar back she was actual young, Milla began autograph songs for her aboriginal almanac at the age of 15. Her aboriginal album, "The Divine Comedy", was appear by EMI Records in 1994. Informed by her adventures as a adolescent growing up as a Russian alien in the Red-bashing Reagan era, the attentive European-folkish admission drew favorable reviews for Milla's songwriting and performing. Although, she has not appear a aftereffect album, she continues to address music, and has had songs featured on several blur soundtracks.
Charitable assignment additionally plays a above allotment in Milla's life. She has served as Master of Ceremonies and co-chaired with Elizabeth Taylor for the amfAR and Cinema Against AIDS accident at the Venice Blur Festival, and has been heavily complex with The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, as able-bodied as The Wildlands Project.
Spouse
Paul W.S. Anderson | (22 August 2009 - present) 1 child |
Luc Besson | (14 December 1997 - 12 June 1999) (divorced) |
Shawn Andrews | (2 October 1992 - 25 November 1992) (annulled) |
Trade Mark
Green-blue eyes
Husky voice
Trivia
Name arresting Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.She has bluish-green eyes and amber beard originally.
Mother is Russian extra Galina Jovovich.
Father is a Serbian pediatrician, from Belgrade Serbia, who confused to Russia and affiliated her mother there.
Frequently attends big appearance business contest such as celebrity parties, premieres, openings, appearance shows, and awards shows. Is a accoutrement in annual paparazzi sections because of this.
Has been on the awning of added than one hundred magazines worldwide.
Once fronted a bandage alleged Plastic Has Memory.
Her built-in accent is Ukrainian.
It was appear that she is currently affianced to Resident Evil (2002) and Mortal Kombat (1995) administrator Paul W.S. Anderson (March, 2003).
Voted the Sexiest Female Cine Star in the Australian Empire Annual September 2002.
While filming the cine Dazed and Confused (1993), she eloped with amateur Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas. It was 1992 and a few months afore she angry seventeen. Since she was alone sixteen at the time, her mother had the alliance annulled.
Performed about all of her own stunts in Resident Evil (2002).Went to aerial academy with Christina Applegate; again afterwards fabricated a bedfellow actualization on "Married with Children" (1987).
Her music video, "The Gentleman Who Fell" is based on Maya Deren's abbreviate blur Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).
Ranked #98 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World (2005).
She was #65 on VH1's 100 Most Hottest Celebrity bodies
Named #82 on the Maxim annual "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
At the age of aloof eleven, she was acclimated in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, which were attempt by Richard Avedon.
Has one sibling, a half-brother called Marco (born 1988).
She is additionally chatty in Serbian, English and French.
As a boyish babe she lived with her distinct mother, because her ancestor spent seven years in prison, and her parents divorced.
She enjoys aggressive arts and she practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Daughter, Ever Anderson, built-in 3 November 2007. Ancestor is her fiancé, Paul W.S. Anderson.
Divides her time amid New York City and Los Angeles.
She owns a 5559-square-foot abode in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills that she purchased in 1998 for $775,000. A 4026-square-foot abode in Beverly Hills that she paid $2,223,000 for in 2004. And a 3010-square-foot abode in the Doral Isles St. Croix development in Doral, Florida (just alfresco Miami) that she purchased in 2005 for $910,000. [2009]
Sold her four-bedroom, 3582-square-foot abode in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $2.750 million. She originally purchased the abode in backward 2001 for $1.8 million. [2009]
Returned to assignment four months afterwards giving bearing to her babe Ever in adjustment to activate filming A Perfect Getaway (2009).
Milla is awkward but she plays guitar and shoots right-handed.
Her ethnicity is bisected Serbian (paternal) and bisected Russian (maternal).
Named one of the "Twenty Most Beautiful People of the Decade" by Interview annual (2009).
Named #43 Sexiest Woman by the Spanish adaptation of DT annual (2011).
Personal Quotes
I anticipate that's one of the alone affidavit God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.I formed like hell {on The Fifth Element (1997)}. No bandage practice, no clubs, no pot, nothing.
"If this cine was fabricated in America they would accept had a guy and we would accept been his harem or entourage. Big studios don't assurance that women will accompany in that affectionate of audience, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) was absolutely an barring to the rule. Most of the time, if you accomplish a big activity blur there has to be a big activity guy in it. It's actual European to assurance a woman to comedy that affectionate of a role" [on Resident Evil (2002)].
I'm a dribbler. [really acceptation dabbler, English is not her aboriginal language, afterwards all]
About Madonna: "Oh, my God! I acclimated to ride my bike about for hours in the barn of our accommodation architecture singing 'Material Girl'" (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).
[on Resident Evil (2002)] We've got absolutely baby mentalities on this movie. We're like: 'It's gross - cool! It's abominable - book it!' You accept to anticipate like a fifteen -year-old. Wet dress. Zombies. Guns. Cool!".
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