Bogich Jovovich, a doctor from Montenegro, and Galina Loginova, a Soviet actress, became the baby’s parents. Milla Jovovich spent her childhood in the Soviet Union, first went to kindergarten in Dnepropetrovsk, and then lived in Kiev. In 1980, the family emigrated to London, then to the United States. In Los Angeles, Galina Loginova tried to pursue an acting career, but due to the language barrier, she was unable to succeed, which is why she and her husband worked for some time as servants in the house of the famous American director Brian de Palma.
Unlike her mother, Mila quickly mastered English, but she was still treated with hostility in schools due to the fact that her parents were from the Soviet Union (which was associated with a new round of the Cold War). Milla Jovovich has been in the modeling business since she was nine years old, and her mother dragged her to auditions and auditions all the time. Mila first appeared on the cover of the Italian magazine Lei, after which Richard Avedon, the master of model photography, invited her to do a photo shoot for Mademoiselle magazine. When the editor of Mademoiselle magazine found out the real age of the model, he removed the photo of the young Jovovich from publication. But Avedon was too reputable in the modeling business, and the photo shoot was published and caused an incredible scandal in the United States.
The involvement of minors in show business and the sexualization of children has been the talk of American talk shows for several months. And Milla Jovovich, thanks to her scandalous fame, appeared on the covers of fifteen fashion magazines. 12-year-old Jovovich dropped out of school to finally focus on modeling. In 1994, Milla Jovovich, a former Soviet citizen, became a U.S. citizen.
Mila first appeared in films at the age of thirteen in Zalman King’s film “The Confluence of Two Moons”, released in 1988. At the age of sixteen, she starred in the title role in the film “Return to the Blue Lagoon.” In 1996, she joined the casting of director Luc Besson and on the second attempt got a role in the film “The Fifth Element”. In 1998, Jovovich appeared as a prostitute in Spike Lee’s film “His Game” with Denzel Washington. In 1999, she played the role of Joan of Arc in the film of the same name by Besson.
In 2000, the premiere of Wim Wenders’ film “Million Dollar Hotel” with Mila Jovovich took place at the Berlin Film Festival. The painting won the main prize of the Silver Bear. Jovovich starred in the title role (in all but the last) episodes of the horror film Resident Evil. Despite the negative reviews from critics, the series was very successful from a commercial point of view: the total box office receipts of the six episodes exceeded $ 1.2 billion with a budget of $ 288 million. Speaking about her upbringing, Milla Jovovich noted:
“I was raised by a Russian mother, she was a famous actress in the USSR. The first books I read were in Russian. I was brought up in the atmosphere of a Russian classical theater school. And modern cinema is based on the same principles. Besides, I always remember that I have Russian blood in my veins. When asked by the French edition of Purple if she feels Russian after leaving the USSR at such an early age, Jovovich replied: “Of course. I still communicate in Russian. I speak it with my daughter. I read her Russian poems and short stories. My roots are very important — they make me who I am. The actress said about herself: “I am Russian. Russian Russian parents raised me, I have many Russian friends, and my best friend is Russian. Of course, Russia is very close and dear to me. Russians Russians Russian Russian humor, Russian cuisine, Russian songs, and Russian churches. I understand that I grew up in America, but I still feel like a Russian. Disagreeing with those newspapers that called Jovovich a “Ukrainian actress,” her mother remarked: “My parents are Russians, from Tula. Mila is half-Russian, half-Black, but I think she considers herself Russian by origin. In 2017, Jovovich noted in an interview that her birth in Ukraine was “accidental.”
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