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Milla Jovovich
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- #001
For The Fifth Element (1997), the production decided to dye Jovovich's hair from its natural brown to the orange that became her character's signature. Because the bright color had to be redyed regularly to be maintained, Milla's hair was damaged and broke so quickly that it could not withstand the dye. Most of Milla's hair fell out, and a wig matching the color and style of Leeloo's hair was eventually created and used for the rest of the production.
- #002
Her name is pronounced Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.
- #003
During the filming of Dazed and Confused (1993), she ran away to Las Vegas, Nevada, with actor Shawn Andrews. It was 1992, a few months before she turned 17. Because she was still only 16 at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.
- #004
Although she appeared on the posters, most of Milla's scenes in Dazed and Confused were cut from the finished film. Upset by this, she decided to take a break from acting for the next 3 years to focus on her music career. She did not act again until she was cast in the lead role of The Fifth Element.
- #005
She has claustrophobia. She has said that the most terrifying thing she has done was the scene in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) in which her character had to be inside a small tank.
- #006
She has said that she did Resident Evil (2002) because her brother was a big fan of the video game.
- #007
She performed almost all of her own stunts in Resident Evil (2002).
- #008
Within three months of attending public school, she began speaking fluent English.
- #009
She enjoys martial arts and practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
- #010
She attended high school with Christina Applegate and later appeared as a guest actor on the series Married… with Children (1987). Both were raised by single mothers.
- #011
She has said that the romantic sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) is the worst film she has ever made.
- #012
With her husband Paul W. S. Anderson, she has daughters Ever Anderson (b. 3 November 2007), Dashiel Edan Jovovich-Anderson (b. 1 April 2015) and Osian Lark Elliot Jovovich-Anderson (b. 2 February 2020).
- #013
Her ethnicity is half Serbian (on her father's side) and half Russian (on her mother's side).
- #014
Her favorite horror film is The Shining (1980).
- #015
As a young girl she lived with her single mother because her father had spent seven years in prison and her parents had divorced.
- #016
On 22 August 2009, she married her boyfriend of 7 years, Paul W. S. Anderson, after a 6-year engagement. Together they have a 21-month-old daughter, Ever.
- #017
For Zoolander (2001), she based her performance as Katinka on her mother, Galina Jovovich.
- #018
She is good friends with Michelle Rodriguez.
- #019
In the film Million Dollar Hotel, her character goes through the entire film barefoot. To prepare for the role, she walked around barefoot for two months beforehand.
- #020
Milla Jovovich was bullied at school because she was from the Soviet Union.
- #021
Milla Jovovich once fronted a band called Plastic Has Memory.
- #022
Milla Jovovich has said she was rebellious as a teenager, using drugs, committing shopping mall vandalism and credit card fraud.
- #023
Milla Jovovich has a sibling, a half-brother named Marco (born 1988).
- #024
Milla Jovovich appears in a small role in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), shown starring in a TV commercial that Jeff Bridges' character watches at the beginning of the film.
- #025
Milla Jovovich was named Sexiest Female Movie Star by Australian Empire magazine.
- #026
Milla Jovovich owns a 5,559-square-meter home in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, which she bought in 1998 for $775,000; a 4,026-square-meter home in Beverly Hills for which she paid $2,223,000 in 2004; and a 3,010-square-meter home in the Doral Isles Saint-Croix development in Doral, Florida (just outside Miami), which she bought in 2005 for $910,000 (2009).
- #027
Milla Jovovich divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
- #028
Milla Jovovich sold her four-bedroom, 3,582-square-meter home in Beverly Hills, California, for $2.750 million. She had first bought the house in late 2001 for $1.8 million (2009).
- #029
Milla Jovovich does not remember her life in Ukraine at all.
- #030
Milla Jovovich has appeared alongside five actors from the Avengers films: Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin (1992); Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Skarsgård in No Good Deed (2002); Thomas Kretschmann in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004); and Chris Hemsworth in A Perfect Getaway (2009).
- #031
Milla Jovovich frequently attends major show-business events such as celebrity parties, galas, premieres, fashion shows and award ceremonies. As a result, she is a fixture in celebrity paparazzi segments.
- #032
Milla Jovovich ranked 65th on VH1's list of the 100 Hottest Celebrity Bodies.
- #033
Milla Jovovich directed the music video for singer Christopher Michael Taylor's "Signal."
- #034
Milla Jovovich speaks English and Russian well.
- #035
Milla Jovovich holds American and Russian passports.
- #036
Milla Jovovich had a stand-in for her nude scene in Chaplin because she was only 16 at the time.
- #037
Milla Jovovich was named the 43rd Sexiest Woman in the Spanish edition of DT magazine (2011).
- #038
Milla Jovovich ranked 82nd on Maxim magazine's 2005 list of the Top 100 Women.
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