Milla Jovovich (pronounced "mee-luh" "yo-vo-vitch") was born December 17, 1975 in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine to father Bogdanovitch Jovovich (Serbian doctor) and mother Galina Loginova Jovovich (Russian actress). In 1981, Milla and her family left the Soviet Union and moved to London, England and then to Sacramento, California, ultimately settling in Los Angeles.
Milla married director Paul W.S. Anderson (director/writer of the Resident Evil series) on August 22, 2009. They have a daughter together, Ever Gabo J. Anderson (born 11.03.07).
Milla and Paul have worked together on the Resident Evil franchise and will team up again for the 3-D version of The Three Musketeers (2011).
Modeling
At the age of eleven, Jovovich was spotted by photographer Richard Avedon, who featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In October 1987, she was on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine Lei, her first of many covers. In 1988, she signed her first professional modeling contract.
Milla has appeared in hundreds of magazines and on dozens of covers. She has been featured in ad campaigns for several brands, including Banana Republic, Christian Dior, Damiani, Donna Karan, Gap, Versace, Mango, Etro and several others (see "Gallery" dropdown menu above). Milla has been an international spokesmodel for L'Oréal cosmetics since 1998. In addition to L'Oréal, Milla has recently been in campaigns for ICB, Ann Taylor, Mercedes-Benz, Metrocity, and Jacob & Co. Milla stars in two 2012 calendars: Campari and Pirelli.
Milla's early modeling led to acting roles, and in 1988 she appeared in her first film role in the romance thriller Two Moon Junction. Her first leading role was in Return to the Blue Lagoon in 1991, for which she was nominated for the "Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture" in the 1991 Young Artist Awards. She appeared on some TV shows around this time and also in the films Kuffs (1992), Chaplin (1992), and Dazed and Confused (1993).
Milla's breakout role was as Leeloo, the perfect being in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). She later starred in several other action movies, including Ultraviolet (2006), A Perfect Getaway (2009), and The Fourth Kind (2009).
Milla and husband Paul W.S. Anderson have made 5 Resident Evil films to date: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012).
Milla has also been in several comedies and dramas, including Spike Lee's He Got Game (1998), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), The Claim (2000), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), Zoolander (2001), Dummy (2003), No Good Deed (2003), You Stupid Man (2003), a faux trailer for a non-existent remake of Caligula (2005), .45 (2006), Palermo Shooting (2008), Stone (2010), and Vykrutasy (2011).
In 1994, Milla released her critically acclaimed folk album, The Divine Comedy. Inspired by a love of "elves and magic trees", Milla wrote the lyrics at 15 and recorded the album when she was just 16. Acoustic, folky, and hard to categorize, the eleven songs on The Divine Comedy are laced with Slavic sadness and X-istential self-doubt. "In a Glade" is a beautiful traditional Ukrainian folk song that Milla sings in her native tongue.
Milla led a band called Plastic Has Memory which played about a dozen shows in Los Angeles and New York City in 1999. Although Plastic Has Memory never released a record, they did contribute one song, "On the Hill", to Hollywood Goes Wild, a benefit CD for The Wildlife Waystation.
Milla performed the song "Left and Right" at Fashion Rocks in London, England in October 2003 (MP3). She has also had songs on several albums, including 2 cover versions of Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love" on the The Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack (2000), "Rocket Collecting" on the Underworld soundtrack (2003), and "Shein Vi Di L'Vone" & "Mezinka" (Yiddish Klezmer songs) on the Dummy soundtrack (2003).
Milla has collaborated with Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan of Tool and A Perfect Circle) several times. She sang on "Rev 22:20" on the Underworld soundtrack (2003) and also on the Renholder remix of The Cure's "Underneath The Stars" on the Underworld: Rise of the Lycans soundtrack (2009).
Milla also sings on "The Mission" [ listen at puscifer.com ] and performed live with Puscifer at The Pearl in Las Vegas on February 13, 2009 [ video ].
Milla released the single "Electric Sky" on May 18, 2012 and performed it the following night in Vienna, Austria at the Life Ball. [ Amazon ]
Milla will be releasing an EP soon!
Milla sang on "We Are Family" (2001) (American Red Cross benefit CD), "Former Lover" from Deepak Chopra's album, A Gift of Love II: Oceans of Ecstasy (2002), and "I Know It's You" by The Crystal Method (2004).
Milla continues to write demos. These demos are available here for free. Fans are encouraged to enjoy them and remix them, but may not sell them.
Fashion Design
Jovovich-Hawk was a fashion line founded by Milla and Carmen Hawk in 2003. Jovovich-Hawk was a finalist in 2006 for the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)/Vogue Fashion Fund initiative. Milla's character Alice wore Jovovich-Hawk clothing in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). Mango released a Jovovich-Hawk for MNG collection in 2007. CNN interviewed Milla and Carmen for a feature on Jovovich-Hawk in 2007 (video). Jovovich-Hawk ended in 2008.
Philanthropy
Milla is an ambassador for amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) and also supports several other charities, including OCRF (Ovarian Cancer Research Fund), The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Wildlands Project, and UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Marc Jacobs/Milla Skin Cancer Awareness T-shirt Campaign (to benefit the NYU Cancer Institute:
2009: Milla attended the Montblanc Signature for Good opening event for the official unveiling of her portrait along with 11 other actresses on February 20, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. Milla posed as Esmeralda from Victor Hugo's classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame to raise funds for United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Milla's print was sold for $20,000 USD in September 2009!
Milla was one of the featured artists in a global campaign titled "tck tck tck: Time for Climate Justice" addressing climate change headed by Bob Geldof. The campaign features a collaborative single recording a reworded version of Midnight Oil's 1987 protest song "Beds are Burning". The single, available as a free download from iTunes is designed to both to raise awareness and act as a "giant digital petition" by those who download it.
2010: Milla was photographed by Helena Christensen for the Tommy Hilfiger Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign. Milla: "As a devote supporter of charitable causes, I really am grateful to be the ambassador for Tommy Hilfiger's initiative to support Breast Health International. To be a part of such an inspirational initiative is an incredible honor, and I hope that through our partnership we can help make a difference in the thousands of lives touched by the horrible disease."
2010: Milla decorated a t-shirt designed by Isabel Marant for auction to benefit Crafts for a Cause.
2012: Representing the US AIDS research foundation amfAR, Milla will join former US president Bill Clinton and others for this year's 20th edition of the Life Ball in Vienna, Austria on May 19, 2012 to benefit AIDS charities. Milla will also be performing her new single, "Electric Sky"
Milla is part of Got Your 6, "a campaign led by the entertainment industry that will help create a new conversation in America, one where veterans and military families are perceived as both leaders and civic assets." Filmography
Past Films
Resident Evil: Retribution
... Milla returns as Alice in Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), the fifth Resident Evil film
... Sequel to Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), and Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
... Amazon: DVD / Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray DVD Box Set of all 5 Resident Evil films
Bringing Up Bobby
... Milla will star in Bringing Up Bobby, the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby who find themselves in Oklahoma trying to escape her past
... Written and directed by Famke Janssen
... Amazon: DVD
The Three Musketeers
... Milla plays Milady de Winter in husband Paul W.S. Anderson's 3-D version of The Three Musketeers (2011)
... Based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas [ Amazon ]
... Trailer
... Amazon: DVD / Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D
Dirty Girl
... Milla appears in Dirty Girl (2011), the story of 2 teenagers on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship
... Trailer
... DVD: Amazon
Faces in the Crowd
... Milla appears in Dirty Girl (2011), the story of 2 teenagers on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship
... Trailer
... DVD: Amazon
Faces in the Crowd
... Milla stars in Faces in the Crowd (2011), a psychological thriller about a woman with prosopagnosia
... Amazon: DVD / Blu-ray
Vykrutasy
... Milla stars in Russian film Vykrutasy (2011) with her friends Ivan Urgant and Timur Behkmambetov (producer)
... Trailer
Resident Evil: Afterlife
... Milla returns as Alice in Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), the fourth Resident Evil film
... Sequel to Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
... DVD: Amazon (DVD) / Amazon (Blu-ray)
Stone
Stone
... Milla co-stars in Stone (2010) with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton
... Trailer
... DVD: Amazon (DVD) / Amazon (Blu-ray)
Blood Into Wine
... Milla appears in Blood Into Wine (2010), a documentary about Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan's vineyard, Caduceus Cellars
... Release date: February 19, 2010
... Milla appears in Blood Into Wine (2010), a documentary about Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan's vineyard, Caduceus Cellars
... Release date: February 19, 2010
The Fourth Kind
... Milla stars in The Fourth Kind (2009), a fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska
... Trailer
... DVD: Amazon (DVD) / Amazon (Blu-ray)
A Perfect Getaway
... Milla stars in A Perfect Getaway (2009), directed by David Twohy
... Release date: August 7, 2009
... DVD: Amazon (DVD) / Amazon (Blu-ray)
Palermo Shooting
... Milla appeared as herself in Palermo Shooting (2008)
... Directed by Wim Wenders
... Palermo Shooting premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2008
Resident Evil: Extinction
... Milla appeared as herself in Palermo Shooting (2008)
... Directed by Wim Wenders
... Palermo Shooting premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2008
Resident Evil: Extinction
... Milla reprises her role as Alice in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), the third Resident Evil film
... Sequel to Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil (2002)
... DVD: Amazon
.45
... .45 follows Milla after her drug-dealing boyfriend (Angus McFadyen) abuses her one too many times, so she seduces her friends into killing him
... DVD: Amazon
Ultraviolet
... Milla stars as Violet, a vampire in Kurt Wimmer's Ultraviolet (2006). She plays a vampire in a civil war in the late 21st century between humans and a subculture turned into vampires. Violet is forced into protecting a young boy amidst the tumult of war.
... DVD: Amazon
Caligula
... Milla stars as Violet, a vampire in Kurt Wimmer's Ultraviolet (2006). She plays a vampire in a civil war in the late 21st century between humans and a subculture turned into vampires. Violet is forced into protecting a young boy amidst the tumult of war.
... DVD: Amazon
Caligula
... Milla plays Caligula's sister Durscilla in a faux trailer for a non-existent remake of Caligula (2005) directed by Francesco Vezzoli
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
... In Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) the nightmare isn't over. Alice (Milla) and Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) team up to battle Matt Addison, who has mutated into a seemingly unstoppable creature, Nemesis (Eric Mabius).
... Sequel to Resident Evil (2002)
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
No Good Deed
... Milla plays Erin, a sultry thief in No Good Deed (2003), a thriller with Samuel L. Jackson & Stellan Skarsgard. The film is based on Dashiell Hammett's short story, "The House on Turk Street".
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Dummy
... In Dummy (2003), Milla plays Fangora, an aspiring singer in a dysfunctional household who finds her niche in Yiddish music while her friend (Adrien Brody) tries to make it as a ventriloquist.
... Milla sings 2 Yiddish Klezmer songs, "Shein Vi Di L'Vone" & "Mezinka", on the Dummy soundtrack
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
... CD: Amazon
You Stupid Man
... In You Stupid Man (2003), a man (David Krumholtz) who can't get over his suddenly famous ex-girlfriend (Denise Richards) agrees to go on a blind date with her friend Nadine (Milla) who has been helping him get over his ex. After they fall in love the ex's show gets canceled and she wants him back.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Resident Evil
... The video game turned movie Resident Evil (2002) focuses on a military unit that fights a powerful super computer that is out of control. To save the world, the military unit led by Alice (Milla) and Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) must combat hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating undead due to a laboratory accident.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Zoolander
... Milla plays the mysterious Katinka in the fashion industry spoof, Zoolander (2001). Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a shallow, self-obsessed male model who has lost his position as the top male model. He is brainwashed by the dominatrix-like Katinka (Milla) into assassinating the president of Malaysia.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
The Claim
... Milla portrayed Lucia in The Claim (2000), a female version of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge: an epic love story set in California in the 1850s. Fans are once again treated to hearing Milla sing, this time performing a fado (Portugese equivalent of the blues).
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
The Million Dollar Hotel
... Milla plays a troubled, damaged, yet brilliant character named Eloise in Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel (2000). The movie starts when a billionaire's son dies in a skid row hotel and a federal agent (Mel Gibson) turns the lives of the miscreant residents upside down to find out if it was suicide or murder.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
... CD: Amazon / Amazon UK
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
... Milla played the title role in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). Luc Besson's unique directing focuses on Joan's visions far more than any previous version. The film follows Joan's short but incredible life - her rise from peasanthood to hero as she led the French Army against the invading British in early 15th century France.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
He Got Game
... Milla played a prostitue in Spike Lee's He Got Game (1998). The film is about Jesus Shuttleworth (Ray Allen), the top high school basketball player in the country. His father, Jake (Denzel Washington) is serving a life sentence for murdering Jesus' mother. Jake is released on parole with one condition - he must persuade his son to sign with the governor's alma mater university.
The Fifth Element
... Milla's breakout film was director Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). Set in New York City in 2214, it's a futuristic sci-fi action movie complete with wild looking villains, funky weapons, a healthy dose of explosions, and the typical Besson humor. Starring opposite Bruce Willis, Milla's portrayal of the "perfect being" Leeloo received high praise from fans and critics.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Dazed and Confused
... Milla appeared briefly in Richard Linklater's cult classic tale of 1970's high school slackers, Dazed and Confused (1993). She impressed audiences by singing a couple of lines from "The Alien Song" from her 1994 album The Divine Comedy. Her image was used extensively in the promotion of the film and she was promised a much larger role but unfortunately her role in the final cut was drastically reduced. Discouraged, she took a temporary hiatus from acting.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Chaplin
... Milla plays Mildred Harris, the second wife of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr.) in Chaplin (1992), the biography of the legendary silent film comedian. She's in the film for about 15 minutes, but once she and Chaplin separate she's not seen again.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Kuffs
... Milla played Maya Carlton, George Kuffs' (Christian Slater) girlfriend in Kuffs (1992). George loses his job and skips town when he finds out that Maya is pregnant. He tries to get a loan from his older brother Brad but Brad is promptly murdered and George is suddenly the owner of Brad's security agency business.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
Return to the Blue Lagoon
... Amidst some controversy (she was just 15 years old), Milla played Lilli in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), the sequel to Brooke Shields' 1980 classic The Blue Lagoon. The story is similar: Richard (Brian Krause) and Lilli are stranded together on a tropical island for a number of years and must teach themselves and each other about life, love, and survival.
... DVD: Amazon / Amazon UK
The Night Train to Kathmandu
... In the made-for-TV movie The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988), Milla plays Lily McLeod, the daughter of two American professors in search of an ancient jewel in Kathmandu. Lily and her little brother Andrew befriend Prince Joharv, a magical prince from another world. He needs the jewel to get back to his world...but there's a greedy villain involved who wants to profit from it.
... VHS: Amazon
Two Moon Junction
... Milla's first role was in Two Moon Junction (1988) as Samantha, April's younger sister. April (Sherilyn Fenn) is to marry a man her snobby parents like but then falls in love with a blue-collar stud named Perry. April must reconcile the expectations of her family and her fiancee with the passion she feels for Perry.
... DVD: Amazon
TV Shows
... Milla has appeared on several TV shows, including Paradise (1988), Married...With Children (1989) as Yvette, a French exchange student who becomes the center of attention at Kelly's high school, and as Robin Fecknoids in the pilot episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990). Milla also provided the voice for Serena in the 7th season premiere of King of the Hill (2002), and appeared on Cirque du Soleil: Solstrom (2004).
... Married...With Children (1989) Season 4 DVD: Amazon
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