WIkipedia: Milla Jovovich
02.20.2006 - 6:00 pm

Milla Jovovich (Serbian: Милица Јововић (Milica Jovović) Russian: Милица Йовович, born December 17, 1975), is an actress, musician, and model currently living and working in the United States.

Early life
Jovovich was born Milica Jovović in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) to a Serbian doctor Bogić Jovović and Ukrainian actress mother Galina Loginova Jovović. The family moved to London, and then in 1981 to Sacramento, California when Milla was five years old. Seven months later they settled in Los Angeles, California.

At the age of just eleven, she was spotted by the photographer Richard Avedon who featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In October 1987, she was featured on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine Lei which was to be the first of her many cover shoots. She continued to model, and released a music CD prior to appearing in her first film Two Moon Junction in 1988. Her appearance in Return to the Blue Lagoon in 1991 led to inevitable comparisons between her and another child model-turned-actress, Brooke Shields (who had starred in the original Blue Lagoon eleven years earlier). Most of her early appearances were in supporting or cameo roles.

Career
By the late 1990s, she was receiving top billing and entered the world of action heroes with her performances in The Fifth Element and in two popular movies based upon the survival horror series, Resident Evil (she has reportedly signed for two more films in this series for release in 2006 and 2007). In 1994, Jovovich, billed under her first name, Milla, released her critically acclaimed first musical album, The Divine Comedy. Featuring many original songs, the album led to comparisons with Tori Amos and Kate Bush. Though she began to concentrate more on her acting than her musical career, her vocals appeared on the 2004 album Legion of Boom by The Crystal Method.

Personal life
Jovovich married Shawn Andrews in October of 1992 during the filming of Dazed and Confused; the marriage was annulled a month later. She later married The Fifth Element director Luc Besson in 1997, but they later divorced in 1999. She dated Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante for some time, but they were together for several years. She was briefly engaged to writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson (Resident Evil) in 2003.

Jovovich is multilingual and speaks Serbian[1], Russian, French and English fluently, and is of Ukrainian nationality.

Family history
Her family is Montenegrin in origin, their estate being at Metohija in Zlopek near Peć. Her great-grandfather Bogić Camić Jovović was flag-bearer of the Vasojevići tribe, and officer of the guard of the King Nicholas I of Montenegro; his wife's name was also Militza. Her grandfather Bogdan Jovović was a commander in the Pristina military area, and later investigated finances in military areas of Skopje and Sarajevo, where he uncovered massive gold embezzlement. He was punished for refusing to convict his friend for the crime. Later, the communist government imprisoned him on Goli Otok. When he feared that he could be arrested again, he escaped to Albania and later came to the Soviet Union, in Kiev. Another version of the story claims that he actually was the one to have taken the gold. Milla's father, Bogić Jovović, later joined her grandfather in Kiev, where he and his sister graduated in medicine.[2]

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