They subsequently emigrated to Sacramento, California, settling in Los Angeles seven months later. In 1980, when Jovovich was five years old, her family left the Soviet Union and emigrated to London. While she has no memories of her early years in Ukraine, Jovovich says she "remembers a lot" about her life in Russia. She spent most of her early childhood in Moscow, Russian SFSR, her mother's native city, and says she was born in Ukraine "pretty much by accident". Her maternal ancestors were from the Russian city of Tula. Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975, in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, the daughter of Galina ( née Loginova), a Russian actress, and Bogdan Jovović, a Serbian doctor. Jovovich has her own production company, Creature Entertainment. In 2003, model Carmen Hawk and she created the clothing line Jovovich–Hawk, which ran until 2008. She continues to release demos for other songs on her official website and frequently contributes to film soundtracks. Jovovich released a debut album, The Divine Comedy, in 1994, and a follow-up, The People Tree Sessions, in 1998.
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From 2002 to 2016, Jovovich portrayed Alice in the action horror film franchise Resident Evil, which became the highest-grossing film series to be based on video games. She starred as the heroine and martyr in Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). She and Besson married that year, but soon divorced. She was considered to have a breakthrough with her role in the 1997 French science-fiction action film The Fifth Element, written and directed by Luc Besson. Jovovich gained attention for her role in the 1991 romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon, as she was 15 years old at the time. In 1988, Jovovich made her screen debut in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu and appeared in her first feature film, Two Moon Junction. Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. īorn in Kyiv and raised in Los Angeles, Jovovich began modeling when Herb Ritts photographed her for the cover of the Italian magazine Lei in 1987. In 2004, Forbes determined that she was the highest-paid model in the world. Her starring roles in numerous science-fiction and action films led the music channel VH1 to deem her the "reigning queen of kick-butt" in 2006. Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich ( / ˈ j oʊ v ə v ɪ tʃ/ YOH-və-vitch born December 17, 1975), known professionally as Milla Jovovich ( MEE-lə), is an American actress and model.
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