Milla Jovovich

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Milla Jovovich is an American actress, model and fashion designer

Dec 17, 1975

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: December 17, 1975
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Left Handed, Fashion, Models, Actresses, Singers, ESTP
  • Spouses: Paul W. S. Anderson (m. 2009), Luc Besson (m. 1997–1999), Shawn Andrews (m. 1992–1992)
  • Known as: Milica Bogdanovna
  • Childrens: Ever Gabo Anderson
  • Universities:
    • public schools in Los Angeles

Milla Jovovich born at

Kiev

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Birth Place

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.

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Personal Life

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

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Personal Life

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.

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Childhood & Early Life

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

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Childhood & Early Life

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

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Childhood & Early Life

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.

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Career

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).

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Career

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

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Career

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.

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Career

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.

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Career

‘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.

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Major Works

‘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.

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Major Works

‘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.

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Major Works