Milla Jovovich

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.

(September 2002) Voted the Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire magazine.

While filming the movie Dazed and Confused , 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 most of her own stunts in Resident Evil .

Attended high school with Christina Applegate ; then later made a guest appearance on "Married with Children" .

Her music video "The Gentleman Who Fell" is based on Maya Deren s short film Meshes of the Afternoon .

Ranked #98 in the 2005 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Voted #65 on VH1s 100 Most Hottest Celebrity Bodies.

Named #82 on Maxim magazines Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.

At the age of just 11, she was used in Revlons "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.

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.

Her ethnicity is half Serbian (paternal) and half Russian (maternal).

Named one of the "Twenty Most Beautiful People of the Decade" by Interview magazine.

Named #43 Sexiest Woman by the Spanish version of DT magazine.

Her favorite horror movie is The Shining .

Shes claustrophobic. She said the scariest thing she had done was the scene in Resident Evil: Apocalypse where her character had to be in a small tank.

For Le cinquime lment , the production decided to dye Jovovichs hair from its natural brown color to her characters signature orange color. However, due to the fact that her hair had to be redyed regularly to maintain the bright color, Millas hair quickly became too damaged and broken to withstand the dye. Most of Millas hair fell out and eventually a wig was created to match the color and style of Leeloos hair, and was used for the remainder of the production.

Millas surname meant "son of Jovan".

Has small cameo in The Mirror Has Two Faces , she is shown starring in a TV commercial that Jeff Bridges character is watching in the beginning of the film.

Shes afraid of needles.

She said the reason she did Resident Evil was because her brother was a huge fan of the video game.

She said the romance sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon 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 third time her boyfriend of 7 years and father of her 21-month-old daughter Ever, Paul W.S. Anderson , following a 6-year-long engagement.

Gave birth to her first child at age 31, a daughter named Ever Gabo Anderson on November 3, 2007 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Childs father is her fianc (now third husband), Paul W.S. Anderson.

Gave birth to her second child at age 39, a daughter named Dashiel Edan Jovovich-Anderson on April 1, 2015 at 5:45 a.m. She was 7 lbs., 10 oz. and 20 inches long at birth. Childs father is her third husband, Paul W.S. Anderson.

Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ever in order to begin filming A Perfect Getaway .

Has starred with five actors from The Avengers movies: Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin ; Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Skarsgrd in No Good Deed ; Thomas Kretschmann in Resident Evil: Apocalypse ; and Chris Hemsworth in A Perfect Getaway .

She has said she was rebellious during her early teens, engaging in drug use, shopping mall vandalism, and credit-card fraud.

She was bullied in school for being from the Soviet Union.

Became fluent in English within three months of attending public school.

She is a former smoker.

Despite being on the posters, most of her scenes from Dazed and Confused were cut from the finished product. Upset at this, Milla decided to take a break from acting for the next 3 years to focus on her music career. She didnt act again until she was cast in the title role for The Fifth Element.

[on Le cinquime lment (1997) ] I worked like hell. No band,practice, no clubs, no pot, nothing.

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.

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.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school. .