American actress, model, and singer Milica Bogdanivna Jovovich, better known by her stage name Milla Jovovich, was born on December 17, 1975. She was dubbed the “reigning queen of kick-butt” by the music channel VH1 in 2006 as a result of her leading parts in several science-fiction and action movies. She was ranked as the highest-paid model in the world by Forbes in 2004.
When Jovovich was five years old, her parents moved from her birthplace of Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, to London, Sacramento, California, and eventually Los Angeles. When Herb Ritts took her picture for the cover of the Italian magazine Lei in 1987, she was just 12 years old and had already started modeling. She was portrayed by Richard Avedon in Revlon’s “Most Memorable Women in the World” commercials. In the 1988 television movie The Night Train to Kathmandu and her first feature film, Two Moon Junction, Jovovich made her acting debut.
Jovovich, who was just 15 at the time, rose to fame for her part in the 1991 romantic comedy Return to the Blue Lagoon. Her performance in the 1997 French science-fiction action picture The Fifth Element, which was written and directed by Luc Besson, was seen as a career-defining moment for her. That year, she wed Besson, but they soon got divorced. In the Besson film The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, she played the martyred and heroic lead (1999). The action-horror series Resident Evil, which became the highest-grossing film franchise based on video games, featured Milla Jovovich as Alice from 2002 to 2016.
The Divine Comedy, Jovovich’s debut album, was published in 1994. The People Tree Sessions, her second album, was released in 1998. She routinely contributes to movie soundtracks and keeps releasing song demos on her own website. She founded the apparel business Jovovich-Hawk with model Carmen Hawk in 2003; it was in operation until 2008. The production firm owned by Jovovich is called Creature Entertainment.
- Body dimensions
- Height: 174 cm or 5 feet 8 inches (1.74 m)
- 64 kilograms (141 pounds)
- 34-inch breast circumference
- 32B bra size
- B-sized cup
- Body Dimensions: 86.36-63.5-86.36 cm or 34-25-34 inches
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- Early careers and breaks (1985–1996)
Her mother “raised her to be a movie star,” claimed Jovovich. Jovovich began taking acting lessons in 1985 when she was just 10 years old with Galina Loginova, and as her acting work increased, she switched to acting school rather than a conventional one. In the 1988 romantic suspense picture Two Moon Junction, Jovovich played Samantha Delongpre in her first professional acting job. She played Lily McLeod in the made-for-television movie The Night Train to Kathmandu later that year. She played a number of characters in many television programs, such as Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (1989), Married… with Children (1989), and Paradise (1988).
She was cast as the lead alongside Brian Krause in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) when she was 15 years old. She was frequently compared to Brooke Shields, another child model-turned-actress who had appeared in The Blue Lagoon, because of her age and beauty (1980). Like Shields, Jovovich’s performance in the movie featured naked scenes, therefore the part was divisive. Jovovich was nominated for “Worst New Star” at the 1991 Golden Raspberry Awards as well as “Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture” at the 1991 Young Artist Awards. Christian Slater and Milla Jovovich co-starred in the comedy Kuffs in 1992. She played Mildred Harris in the Charlie Chaplin biopic Chaplin later that year. She appeared in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater. She portrayed Michelle Burroughs, Pickford’s on-screen girlfriend (played by her then-boyfriend Shawn Andrews). Jovovich was disappointed to learn that her involvement in the finished picture was far smaller than it had been in the film’s publicity. She moved to Europe and took a break from performing after becoming discouraged.
- Clothing design
In 2003, Jovovich and model Carmen Hawk debuted the Jovovich-Hawk clothing brand. On September 13, 2005, the duo inaugurated a showroom in Greenwich Village, New York City. She and her partner Carmen Hawk created every outfit for the Jovovich-Hawk brand. Although the atelier is situated in Los Angeles, its products may be found in more than 50 shops across the world, including Harvey Nichols and Fred Segal in the same city. The collection has achieved a “girl-about-town cult status other designers spend years attempting to acquire,” according to Vogue. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and US Vogue put Jovovich-Hawk forth for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award in November 2006. Jovovich-Hawk was a finalist nominee, but Doo-Ri Chung won the award.
In Resident Evil: Extinction, Jovovich and Hawk created the character’s attire in 2007. The “Alice Star” Shorts from the Spring 2007 collection are a version on the shorts worn by her Resident Evil persona. Later, Jovovich-Hawk, following in the footsteps of Luella, Paul & Joe, and Proenza Schouler, agreed to create a diffusion collection for Target’s Go International campaign. Due to rising demands on their time, Jovovich and Hawk mutually decided to dissolve the firm in late 2008. Jovovich clarified: “I’m a creative. I’m not the type of person who can cope with taxes and delivery costs”.
