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December 17th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Milla Jovovich!
By Allie | December 17, 2007
Milla Jovovich (Born on December 17, 1975) is an American supermodel, actress, musician, singer, and fashion designer.
She’s 32!
Jovovich has been featured in numerous high profile modeling campaigns as well as in Hollywood films.
Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science-fiction and action themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the “reigning queen of kick-butt”.
Jovovich had began modeling at eleven, when Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon’s “Most Unforgettable Women in the World” advertisements, and she continues her career with more notable campaigns for L’Oreal cosmetics, Banana Republic, Christian Dior, Donna Karan and Versace. In 1988, she had her first professional acting role in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu, and later that year she appeared in her first feature film, Two Moon Junction.
Following more small television and film roles, she gained notoriety with the romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), the sequel to The Blue Lagoon. Jovovich then acted along side Bruce Willis in the science fiction film The Fifth Element (1997), and later played the title role in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). In 2002, she starred in the video game adaptation, Resident Evil, which has gone onto spawn two sequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).
In addition to her modeling and acting career, Jovovich released the critically-acclaimed musical album, The Divine Comedy in 1994. She continues to release demos for other songs on her official website and contributes to film soundtracks as well; Jovovich has yet to release another album. In 2003, she and model Carmen Hawk created the clothing line Jovovich-Hawk. Now in its third season, the pieces can be found at Fred Segal in Los Angeles, Harvey Nichols, and over 50 stores around the world. Jovovich also has her own production company, Creature Entertainment.
In 1981, when Jovovich was five years old, her family left the Soviet Union for political reasons and moved to London. They subsequently lived in Sacramento, California, USA before settling in Los Angeles, California seven months later; Jovovich’s parents divorced soon after. Jovovich’s mother attempted to support the family with acting jobs, but found little success, and eventually resorted to cleaning houses to earn money. Both her father and mother provided house cleaning services for director Brian de Palma. Jovovich’s father was incarcerated for most of her childhood for an illegal operation with medical insurance; he was given a twenty year sentence in 1994, but was released in 1999 after serving five years in an American prison.
Jovovich has gone on to say that “Prison was good for him. He’s become a much better person. It gave him a chance to stop and think.” She attended public schools shortly after arriving in the United States, and learned fluent English in three months. During school, many of the students had teased her because she had immigrated from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Jovovich said, “I was called a Commie and a Russian spy. I was never, ever, ever accepted into the crowd”. In 7th grade, Jovovich left school to focus on her growing career. As a teenager before age 14, she claimed to be rebellious, engaging in drug-taking, shopping mall vandalism, and credit-card fraud. She also has a brother named Marco Jovovich, born in 1988.
Personal Life:
Jovovich currently resides in homes in Los Angeles and New York with fiance, film writer and director, Paul W. S. Anderson; the two met while working on Resident Evil which Anderson had directed and written. Anderson proposed to Jovovich in 2003, but the two separated for a period of time before becoming a couple again. On November 3, 2007, she gave birth to her and Anderson’s first child, a daughter, Ever Gabo J. Anderson. The child was born on at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, one day before Jovovich’s due date of November 4th. The couple has stated that they “would love to [get married], but maybe after the baby.” Wim Wenders, who directed Jovovich’s film The Million Dollar Hotel, is the baby’s godfather. She has also stated that she would like to have three children and adopt as well. Jovovich has two miniature Maltese dogs, Bubbles and Madness.
Previous to her relationship with Anderson, Jovovich married on screen boyfriend Shawn Andrews in 1992 while filming Dazed and Confused together. Andrews was twenty one, while Jovovich was sixteen; the marriage was annulled by her mother two months later. Shortly after the annulment, Jovovich moved to Europe and, from 1994 to 1996 when she resided in London, she had a relationship with Jamiroquai ex-bassist Stuart Zender. From 1996 to 1997, she dated photographer Mario Sorrenti. In a ceremony in Las Vegas, she married The Fifth Element director Luc Besson in 1997, however, the two divorced in 1999. Later in 1999, during the filming of The Million Dollar Hotel, Jovovich dated co-star Jeremy Davies from May, until the end of the year. Jovovich also dated her “idol” Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante for seven months in 2000.
In 2006, Jovovich mentioned her interest in publishing her private diaries as an autobiography. She had kept a diary since childhood, writing about the locations she has traveled and “all the mad things that I’ve done”. Jovovich views it as a a way to “get it all into a bookâlike an autobiography”, and it would have a “diary feel to it”. However, Jovovich also noted, “I’m not sure how interested anyone would be in publishing it, or reading it, for that matter.”
In addition to being a smoker, Jovovich believes in the legalization of Cannabis, and even appeared in a spread for High Times magazine. She practices yoga and meditates often in attempts to live a healthy lifestyle; although not affiliating with a certain religion, she prays and considers herself a “spiritual person”. She avoids junk foods and prefers to cook for herself. She practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in addition to other varieties of martial arts. Jovovich also enjoys playing the guitar, writing in a diary, and writing poems and lyrics for songs.
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Ernie Hudson-Actor -62
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Barry Livingston-Actor -54
Bill Pullman-Actor -54
Sean Patrick Thomas-Actor -37
Giovanni Ribisi-Actor -33
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