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Milla Natasha Jovovich was born on
December 19, 1975 in Kiev, Ukraine. Her mother is
the Ukrainian actress Galina Loginova and her father
is the Yugoslavian doctor Borgi Jovovich. Milla, an
only child, spent the first five years of her life
shuttling between the grim environs of what was then
the Soviet Union and London, where her father was in
medical school. Not suprisingly, her earliest
memories of America are of "green trees and
mountains and lakes. Big dogs." To ease the
feeling of alienation brought on by her peers, Milla
developed a fertile imagination and fantasy life,
heightened, no doubt, by the majestly of the
Sacremento forest and fascination with things
mythical and magical. "I was obsessed with
fairies," she recalls. "I loved them. And
I felt like I belonged to the forest. Life, I
thought, would be so much cooler as a wood
nymph!" She moved to the U.S. with her parents
when she was five years old. When she was nine,
Milla, started into acting which led to modeling at
age eleven.
On 1988, she first stared in "Two Moon
Junction" and "The Night Train to
Katmandu" (TV Movie). Since then she has been
in many movies. In 1991 she acted on
"Idols" a TV special, but on the same year
she did her first big scream movie "Return to
the Blue Lagoon". In 1992 she stared
"Chaplin" and "Kuffs". In 1993
she was in "Dazed and Confused" and,
finally, in 1997 she did "The Fifth
Element". She is also a model, so she has been
in many ads, both print and television. She's been
in Calvin Klein and dozens of other high profile
ads, and in all the major glamour magazines. As
singer, Milla has an album "The Divine
Comedy" released in 1994, at age 18. It is a
very good CD and she sings so well as she acting and
modeling. Milla says she gained musical inspiration
from Pink Floyd, Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins. Milla
is a totally self driven artist, above all, being
true or as she puts it in one interview
"brutally honest" with herself.
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