Milla Jovovich- Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Height, Ethnicity

Milla Jovovich, born Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich, is an American actress, model and musician. She is known for her roles in a number of science fiction and action films.

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Biography of Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, on December 17, 1975. She is the daughter of Galina, a Soviet-Russian actress, and Bogdan Jovovich, a Serbian doctor. Milla’s ancestors were from Montenegrin beautiful Vasojević family. They also stayed in Kosovo. She spent most of her childhood in Moscow, Russian SFSR, her mother’s hometown. Jovovich revealed that she was “accidentally” born in Ukraine. In 1980, she emigrated to the Soviet Union. Milla was only 5 years old then.

After that, she and her family moved to Sacramento, California. After seven months in California, they settled in Los Angeles. Milla’s parents soon separated. Her father started a relationship with another woman, which he persuaded his son, Marc Jovovich. Milla’s mother worked hard to get a job in the acting industry, but had only limited success. Her failure was primarily due to language barriers, which eventually forced her to earn a living by cleaning houses. Her mother worked in director Brian De Palma’s office.

Milla Jovovich Education

Milla Jovovich attended public schools in Los Angeles, where she significantly improved her English in less than three months. Her classmates bullied her at the beginning of school because she was from the Soviet Union. Milla was labeled a communist and detained as a Russian spy. She dropped out of seventh grade to pursue a modeling career. However, she started modeling at the age of nine. Jovovich became a naturalized American citizen when she was 19 years old.

How tall is Milla Jovovich?

This stunning actress is 45 years old. She is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 64 kg.

Milla Jovovich with her daughter (Source: Instagram)

Career

Galina Loginova enrolled Milla in acting classes in 1985. After choosing an acting career, she began attending acting schools instead of continuing her academic education. In 1998, she made her professional debut as Samantha Delongpre in the romantic thriller Two Moon Junction. In the same year, she starred in the film Night Train to Kathmandu as Lily McLeod. Her other TV shows include Paradise, Married… with Children, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and others.

She played the lead role in The Blue Lagoon (1991) opposite Brian Krause when she was 15 years old. People compared Jovovich’s looks to Brooke Shields because she was extremely beautiful and hot. It ended up being very controversial because Shields and Milla were shown in nude scenes. Milla Jovovich was nominated in 1991 for “Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture”.

Milla played Alice in almost the entire Resident Evil: Retribution film series. On September 14, 2012, she completed the fifth part of Resident Evil. In the 2018 film Future World, Jovovich played a drug lord opposite Tommy Lee Jones.

Her musical journey began in 1988 with the release of a music album. She was signed by SBK Records there. Milla claims in an interview from August 1990 that she started writing songs when she was about 15 years old.

Relationship and jobs

Paul WS Anderson, her husband, is a screenwriter and director. They got married on August 22, 2009. They met for the first time on the set of Resident Evil. Ever Anderson, Dashiel Edan and Osian Lark Elliot are Milla and Paul’s three daughters.

How rich is Milla Jovovich?

Milla Jovovich has a net worth of $50 million as of January 2024. Her wealth comes from her work in film, television, and modeling.

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