Trivia

Her name is pronounced Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.

For The Fifth Element (1997), the production decided to dye Jovovich's hair from its natural brown color to her character's signature orange color. However, due to the fact that her hair had to be redyed regularly to maintain the bright color, Milla's hair quickly became too damaged and broken to withstand the dye. Most of Milla's hair fell out and eventually a wig was created to match the color and style of Leeloo's hair, and was used for the remainder of the production.

While filming the movie Dazed and Confused (1993), she eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas, Nevada. It was 1992 and several months before she turned 17. Since she was only 16 at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.

Despite being on the posters, most of her scenes from Dazed and Confused were cut from the finished product. Upset at this, Milla decided to take a break from acting for the next 3 years to focus on her music career. She didn't act again until she was cast in the title role for The Fifth Element.

She's claustrophobic. She said the scariest thing she had done was the scene in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) where her character had to be in a small tank.

Became fluent in English within three months of attending public school.

She said the reason she did Resident Evil (2002) was because her brother was a huge fan of the video game.

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

She enjoys martial arts and she practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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

Mother, with husband Paul W.S. Anderson, of daughters Ever Anderson (b. November 3, 2007), Dashiel Edan Jovovich-Anderson (b. April 1, 2015), and Osian Lark Elliot Jovovich-Anderson (b. February 2, 2020).

She said the romance sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) was the worst film she has ever done.

As a teenage girl, she lived with her single mother, because her father spent seven years in prison, and her parents divorced.

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

Her favorite horror movie is The Shining (1980).

(August 22, 2009) Married her boyfriend of 7 years Paul W.S. Anderson following a 6-year-long engagement. They have 21-month-old daughter Ever together.

For Zoolander (2001), she based her performance of Katinka on her mother Galina Jovovich.

At the age of just 11, she was used in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, which were shot by Richard Avedon.

She was bullied in school for being from the Soviet Union.

Good friends with Michelle Rodriguez.

Father is a Serbian pediatrician, from Belgrade Serbia, who moved to Russia and married her mother there.

In the movie Million Dollar Hotel,her character spend the entire movie barefoot.To prepare for the role,she went in bare feet for two months straight beforehand.

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

Once fronted a band called Plastic Has Memory.

She has said she was rebellious during her early teens, engaging in drug use, shopping mall vandalism, and credit-card fraud.

Milla's surname meant "son of Jovan".

Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ever in order to begin filming A Perfect Getaway (2009).

Has one sibling, a half-brother named Marco (born 1988).

Voted the Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire magazine. (September 2002)

Has small cameo in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), she is shown starring in a TV commercial that Jeff Bridges' character is watching in the beginning of the film.

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

Divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles, California.

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

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

Has starred with five actors from The Avengers movies: 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).

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.

Voted #65 on VH1's 100 Most Hottest Celebrity Bodies.

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

Ranked #98 in the 2005 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Directed the music video "Signal" for singer Christopher Michael Taylor.

Named #82 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.

She had a body double for her nude scene in Chaplin because she was only 16 at the time.