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Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich : Biography

Milla has been acting since she was 11 years old. Her first taste of the silver screen came in Two Moon Junction (1988) as Samantha, April's younger sister. The basic plot is that 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. Next came the made-for-TV movie The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988) in which 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 it strictly for it's monetary value. Great line from Milla: "Well you certainly can't be in my bed without a ticket--and not even with one!!" Milla also appeared on the TV show Paradise (1988).
Before her next movie, Milla appeared on Married...With Children (1989) as Yvette, a French exchange student who becomes the center of attention at Kelly's high school. She also played played Robin Fecknoids in the pilot episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990). 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 basically the same: a young boy (Richard, played by Brian Krause) and girl are stranded together on a tropical island for a number of years and must teach themselves and each other about life, love, and survival.

Milla played Maya Carlton, George Kuffs' (Christian Slater) girlfriend in Kuffs (1992). The title character addresses the camera throughout the film in a Ferris-Bueller-meets-Alf style. 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. 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. Blink and you might miss her in Dazed and Confused (1993). Aside from a scene in which Milla sings a couple of lines from The Alien Song (from her 1994 album The Divine Comedy) she is all but non-existent in Richard Linklater's cult classic tale of 1970's high school slackers. This was undoubtedly the low point of Milla's acting career - she was used extensively in the promotion of the film and was promised a much larger role. Discouraged, she took a temporary hiatus from acting.

Milla returned with a bang in her breakout film, director Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). Set in New York City in 2214, it's a futuristic science-fiction 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" Lee-Loo received high praise from fans and critics. Milla married Luc Besson in December 1997. From perfect being to prostitute, Milla's next role was as Dakota Burns in director 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 but with one condition - in one week, he must persuade his son to sign with the governor's alma mater university, Big State.

Milla teamed up with Luc Besson once again as she played the title role in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). 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. Joan was made a Saint 500 years later in 1920. Milla & Luc divorced shortly after the film was released.

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. The name of the film is the nickname for the LA flophouse which was featured in the U2 video, Where the Streets Have No Name. The premiere was February 9, 2000 at the 50th Berlin Film Festival. Milla also filmed The Claim (2000) (formerly known as Kingdom Come) in 2000. It is a female version of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge: an epic love story set in California in the 1850s. US release was April 20, 2001.

Milla plays the mysterious Katinka in Ben Stiller's comedy Zoolander. Based upon a character Ben Stiller created for skits shown during the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards. Derek Zoolander (Stiller) is a shallow, self-obsessed male model who has lost his position as the #1 model, being brainwashed by the mysterious dominatrix-like character Katinka (Milla) into assassinating the president of Malaysia. Meanwhile, he also has to deal with nemesis (Wilson), a younger, blonde model who is now the hot stuff. In You Stupid Man, a man who can't get over his suddenly famous ex-girlfriend agrees to go on a blind date with one of her friends (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.

The video game turned movie Resident Evil focuses on a military unit that fights a powerful super computer that is out of control. In order 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. A sequel is being planned with Milla returning as Alice.

Filming for Dummy was completed in the summer of 2000. Milla plays 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 is also in No Good Deed, a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson & Stellan Skarsgard in which Milla plays an international bond thief. Milla will soon be filming Red America in which she stars opposite Russian star Vladimir Mashkov. Milla will also be in Rob Schmidt's American Heroes.

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