Occupation: Actress, Model, Singer, Songwriter
Date of Birth: December 19, 1975
Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine, USSR
Sign: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Cancer
Relations: Galina Loginova (actress); father: Borgi Jovovich (doctor); husband (separated): Luc Besson (director)
Education: High school
MILLA JOVOVICH PERSONIFIES perfection. She is a musician, actress, model and overall ingénue. Not only does Milla act, but much of her life resembles a drama, coupled with action. Milla’s mother is an actress and her father is a physician, currently in prison for laundering money for the Russian mafia. Milla is an only child. The family moved to sunny California from Ukraine when Milla was five. Within six years, she was on the covers of fashion magazines all over the world.
But Beauty was not enough for the Russian. Her first attempt at the silver screen was to fill in for Brooke Shields’ sequel of Return to the Blue Lagoon, a part nobody wanted. A year later, she played the girlfriend of Christian Slater in Kuffs.
It wasn't until Milla took a minor but important role in Richard Linklater's stoner classic Dazed and Confused, that people started to take notice of her acting potential. She landed her breakthrough role as a "perfect being" in Luc Besson's kooky sci-fi action and winner of the1998 Canne Festival The Fifth Element. Director Besson's interest in Milla didn't end at the wrap party - they were married in Las Vegas several months later. Continuing their on-and off-screen partnership, Jovovich took the title role in Besson's next big film, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.
At 24, Milla is a supermodel, actress, wife of a famous director and has signed a record deal with EMI. She also has a best-selling CD out, The Divine Comedy. Perfect or what?!
Movies:
1999 The Boathouse
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 The Million Dollar Hotel
1998 He Got Game
1997 The Fifth Element
1993 Dazed and Confused
1992 Kuffs
1992 Chaplin
1991 Return to the Blue Lagoon
TV:
1991 Idols
1988 The Night Train to Kathmandu
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