2011-10-25

Things Must Know About Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich name pronounced Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.

She has bluish-green eyes and brown hair originally.


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.

Her native language is Ukrainian.

It was announced that she is currently engaged to Resident Evil (2002) and Mortal Kombat (1995) director Paul W.S. Anderson (March, 2003).

Voted the Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.

Measurements: 34B-22-33, as a 16-year-old model. But since matured to a 35B. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

While filming the movie Dazed and Confused (1993), she eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas. It was 1992 and a few months before she turned seventeen. Since she was only sixteen at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.

Performed almost all of her own stunts in Resident Evil (2002).

Went to high school with Christina Applegate; then later made a guest appearance on "Married with Children" (1987).

Her music video, "The Gentleman Who Fell" is based on Maya Deren's short film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).

Ranked #98 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World (2005).

She was #65 on VH1's 100 Most Hottest Celebrity bodies

Named #82 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.

At the age of just eleven, she was used in Revlon's "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 also fluent in Serbian, English and French.

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.

Daughter, Ever Anderson, born 3 November 2007. Father is her fiancé, Paul W.S. Anderson.

Divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles.

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 St. Croix development in Doral, Florida (just outside Miami) that she purchased in 2005 for $910,000. [2009]

Sold her four-bedroom, 3582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $2.750 million. She originally purchased the house in late 2001 for $1.8 million. [2009]

Returned to work four months after giving birth to her daughter Ever in order to begin filming A Perfect Getaway (2009).

Milla is left-handed but she plays guitar and shoots right-handed.

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

Named one of the "Twenty Most Beautiful People of the Decade" by Interview magazine (2009).

Named #43 Sexiest Woman by the Spanish version of DT magazine (2011).