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Young Milla Jovovich was brought up by her single mother in Los Angeles. In addition to her native Russian, she also speaks Serbian and English. However, in spite of her cosmopolitan background, Milla was ostracized by some of her classmates, as a kid who emigrated from the Soviet Union amidst the paranoia of the Cold War. Many emotional scars had affected her behavior, but she eventually emerged as a resilient, multi-talented, albeit rebellious and risk-taking girl. She was coached by her actress mother since her childhood, first at home, then studied music, ballet, and acting in Los Angeles.
She shot to international fame after she was spotted by the photographer Richard Avedon at the age of 11, and was featured in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, and on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine 'Lei' which was her first cover shoot. She made her first professional model contract at the age of 12, and soon made it to the cover of 'The Face', 'Vogue', 'Cosmopolitan' and many other magazines. In 1994, she appeared on the cover of 'High Times' in the UK, at the age of 18. The total number of her magazine covers worldwide was over one hundred by 2004, and keeps counting. In 2004, she made $10.4 million, becoming the highest paid supermodel in the world.
Milla appeared in ad campaigns for Chanel, Versace, Emporio Armani, Donna Karen, DKNY, Celine, P&K, H&H, and continues her role as the worldwide spokesmodel for L'Oreal. Thanks to their continued success with Milla, Giorgio Armani chose her to be the face of his fragrance, Night. In addition to Armani's fragrance, Milla was the face for Calvin Klein's Obsession and Christian Dior's Poison for over 10 years and has most recently become the new face for Donna Karan's Cashmere Mist fragrance, which debuts in August 2009. Milla continues to shoot with the fashion industry's most sought after photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Mario Sorrenti, Craig McDean and Inez & Vinoodh.
Milla made her acting debut in the Disney Channel movie The Night Train to Kathmandu(1988) and she made guest appearances on television series including Matrimonio con hijos (1987) (in 1989 as a French exchange student), Paradise (1988) and Parker Lewis nunca pierde (1990). In 1988, at age 12, she made her film debut credited as Milla in a supporting role in Encrucijada de pasiones (1988) by writer/director Zalman King. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she played several supporting roles as a teenage actress in film and on television, then starred in Regreso al lago azul (1991). In 1997, she co-starred opposite Bruce Willis in the sci-fi blockbuster El quinto elemento (1997), then she starred as the title character of Juana de Arco de Luc Besson (1999).
In the early 2000s, Milla had a few years of uncertainty in her acting career due to the uneven quality of her films, as well as some hectic events in her private life. She appeared with Mel Gibson in Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. She went on to co-star with Wes Bentley and Sarah Polley in El perdón (2000) and in Ben Stiller's spoof of the world of models and high-fashion, Zoolander (Un descerebrado de moda) (2001).
Milla achieved box office success in the U.S. and around the world with the action-packed thriller, Resident Evil (2002), based on the wildly popular video game, Resident Evil. It was written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Milla reprised her role as the zombie slaying heroine, Alice, in Resident Evil 2: Apocalipsis (2004), Resident Evil: Extinción(2007), Resident Evil: Ultratumba (2010), and again in Resident Evil 5: Venganza (2012). A sixth resident Evil movie is in pre-production.
She received glowing reviews opposite Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Illeana Douglas in Dummy (2002) which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. In the spring of 2006, Milla returned to the big screen as action heroine, Violet, in the futuristic film Ultravioleta(2006) directed by Kurt Wimmer.
Focusing on her personal sense of style, her love of fashion led Milla and her friend and business partner, Carmen Hawk, to launch their Jovovich-Hawk clothing line, which achieved instant acclaim in the domestic and international fashion world. The fresh, unique line garnered the attention of red carpet watchers and fashion magazines, including American Vogue, who featured Jovovich-Hawk on their coveted list of "10 Things to Watch Out for in 2005." A student of voice and guitar since she was very young, Milla began writing songs for her first record at the age of 15.
Her first album, "The Divine Comedy", was released by EMI Records in 1994. Informed by her experiences as a child growing up as a Russian emigrant in the Red-bashing Reagan era, the introspective European-folkish debut drew favorable reviews for Milla's songwriting and performing. She continues to write music, and has had songs featured on several film soundtracks. She has been writing music and lyrics to her song-demos, playing her guitar and sampling other sounds from her computer, and allowing free download and remix of her songs from her website.
Charitable work also plays a major part in Milla's life. She has served as Master of Ceremonies and co-chaired with Elizabeth Taylor for the amfAR and Cinema Against AIDS event at the Venice Film Festival, and has been heavily involved with The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, as well as The Wildlands Project.
For many years Milla Jovovich has been maintaining a healthier lifestyle, practicing yoga and meditation, trying to avoid junk food, and cooking for herself. Since she was a little girl, Milla has been writing a private diary, a habit she learned from her mother. She has been keeping a record of many good and bad facts of her life, her travels, her relationships, and all important ideas and events in her career, planning eventually to publish an autobiography. After dissolution of her two previous marriages, Milla Jovovich became engaged to film director Paul W.S. Anderson; their daughter, Ever Anderson, was born on November 3, 2007. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov and Brad Cafarelli, Publicist
Spouse
Paul W.S. Anderson (22 August 2009 - present) (2 children)Luc Besson (14 December 1997 - 12 June 1999) (divorced)
Shawn Andrews (2 October 1992 - 25 November 1992) (annulled)
Trade Mark
Husky voiceFeline eyebrows
Brown hair, green-blue eyes and pale skin
Often cast by her husband Paul W.S. Anderson
Often dresses in red in her films and in real life
Hyperactive personality
Trivia
Her name is pronounced Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.Mother is Russian actress Galina Jovovich.
Father is a Serbian pediatrician, from Belgrade Serbia, who moved to Russia and married her mother there.
Frequently attends big show business events such as celebrity parties, premieres, openings, fashion shows and awards shows. Is a fixture in magazine paparazzi sections because of this.
Has been on the cover of more than one hundred magazines worldwide.
Once fronted a band called Plastic Has Memory.
Voted the Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine. [September 2002]
While filming the movie Movida del 76 (1993), she eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas, Nevada. It was 1992 and several months before she turned 17. Since she was only 16 at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.
Has performed almost all of her own stunts in Resident Evil (2002).
Went to high school with Christina Applegate; then later made a guest appearance on Matrimonio con hijos (1987).
Her music video "The Gentleman Who Fell" is based on Maya Deren's short film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).
Ranked #98 in the 2005 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Voted #65 on VH1's 100 Most Hottest Celebrity Bodies.
Named #82 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
At the age of just 11, she was used in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, which were shot by Richard Avedon.
Has one sibling, a half-brother named Marco (born 1988).
She is fluent in English, French, Serbian and Ukrainian.
As a teenage girl, she lived with her single mother, because her father spent seven years in prison, and her parents divorced.
She enjoys martial arts and she practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
She owns a 5559-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills that she purchased in 1998 for $775,000. A 4026-square-foot house in Beverly Hills that she paid $2,223,000 for in 2004. And a 3010-square-foot house in the Doral Isles Saint-Croix development in Doral, Florida (just outside Miami) that she purchased in 2005 for $910,000 (2009).
Sold her four-bedroom, 3582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, California for $2.750 million. She originally purchased the house in late 2001 for $1.8 million (2009).
Her ethnicity is half Serbian (paternal) and half Russian (maternal).
Named one of the "Twenty Most Beautiful People of the Decade" by Interview magazine (2009).
Named #43 Sexiest Woman by the Spanish version of DT magazine (2011).
Her favorite horror movie is El resplandor (1980).
She is claustrophobic. She said the scariest thing she had done was the scene in Resident Evil 2: Apocalipsis (2004) where her character had to be in a small tank.
For El quinto elemento (1997), the production decided to dye Jovovich's hair from its natural brown color to her character's signature orange color. However, due to the fact that her hair had to be redyed regularly to maintain the bright color, Milla's hair quickly became too damaged and broken to withstand the dye. Most of Milla's hair fell out and eventually a wig was created to match the color and style of Leeloo's hair, and was used for the remainder of the production.
Milla's surname meant "son of Jovan".
Has small cameo in "The Mirror Has Two faces" (1996), she is shown starring in a TV commercial that Jeff Bridges' character is watching in the beginning of the film.
She's afraid of needles.
She said the reason she did Resident Evil (2002) was because her brother was a huge fan of the video game.
She said the romance sequel Regreso al lago azul (1991) was the worst film she has ever done.
For Zoolander, she based her performance of Katinka on her mother Galina Jovovich.
(August 22, 2009) Married for the 3rd time her boyfriend of 7 years & father of her 21-month-old daughter Ever, Paul W.S. Anderson, following a 6-year-long engagement.
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 31, a daughter named Ever Gabo Anderson on November 3, 2007 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Child's father is her fiancé (now 3rd husband), Paul W.S. Anderson.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 39, a daughter named Dashiel Edan Jovovich-Anderson on April 1, 2015 at 5:45 am. She was 7 lbs., 10 oz. and 20 inches long at birth. Child's father is her 3rd husband, Paul W.S. Anderson.
Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ever in order to begin filming Escapada perfecta (2009).
Has starred with five actors from The Avengers movies; Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin, Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Skarsgard in No Good Deed, Thomas Kretschmann in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Chris Hemsworth in A Perfect Getaway.
Personal Quotes
I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.[on El quinto elemento (1997)] I worked like hell. No band practice, no clubs, no pot, nothing.
[on Resident Evil (2002)] If this movie was made in America they would have had a guy and we would have been his harem or entourage. Big studios don't trust that women will bring in that kind of audience, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) was really an exception to the rule. Most of the time, if you make a big action film there has to be a big action guy in it. It's very European to trust a woman to play that kind of a role.
I'm a dabbler.
About Madonna: Oh, my God! I used to ride my bicycle around for hours in the garage of our apartment building singing "Material Girl". (In Style magazine, September 2006).
[on Resident Evil (2002)] We've got really infantile mentalities on this movie. We're like: "It's gross - cool! It's disgusting - print it!". You have to think like a fifteen-year-old. Wet dress. Zombies. Guns. Cool!
To be an actor, you have to know yourself really well. That's been a major thing for me, to really understand why I do things.
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
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