Milla Jovovich

She married thrice; her first marriage was to Shawn Andrews in 1992 though it ended in an annulment two months later. Her second marriage was to director Luc Besson in 1997; the couple divorced two years later.

She married the film director and writer, Paul W. S. Anderson on 22nd of August 2009. The couple has a daughter, Ever Gabo Anderson.

Milla Jovovich was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Serbian doctor, Bogdanovitch Jovovich and a Russian actress, Galina Loginova Jovovich. Jovovich’s family moved to Sacramento in California when she was five years old. She completed her education from Excelsior High School in Los Angeles.

She started modeling at a very young age and her initial assignment was with Revlon,shot by the iconic photographer, Richard Avedon.

At the age of 11, she posed for her first magazine cover, for an Italian magazine, ‘Lei’.

She marked her entry into films when at the age of fifteen she played the lead role in ‘Return to the Blue Lagoon’, released in 1991.

She also played small but memorable roles in films including Charlie Chaplin's child-bride in ‘Chaplin’ (1992) and a guitar-playing hippie in ‘Dazed and Confused’ (1993).

As a singer and songwriter, she came up with her debut album, ‘The Divine Comedy’, released in 1994, when she was just eighteen.

She took a small break from acting to focus on her music career and returned to the big screen in 1997 with a lead role in Luc Besson directed science fiction film 'The Fifth Element', alongside Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman. She played the orange haired Leeloo, a genetically engineered woman with supernatural powers and revealing costumes.

She worked with Besson once again in the 1998 historical drama, ‘The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc’. The film had extensive battle scenes and Jovovich had to cut her hair short for the role.

‘The Divine Comedy’ is her first and only studio album which was released in 1994. The album earned positive reviews and its single, "Gentleman Who Fell", charted at number 21 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

‘The Peopletree Sessions’ is an electronic or folk or rock album by Emit Bloch and Milla Jovovich, released in 1998/1999. In 2000, the album was chosen as the 'CD of the Week' and was given 4/5 stars by the Guardian newspaper.

‘Resident Evil’, one of the highly successful movies which she starred in, earned her great worldwide fame and she became one of the A-list action stars in Hollywood.