Line #25 Creator/MillaJovovich


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3	->''"I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot."''
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5	Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich (born December 17, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is an American actress and musician of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Serbia}} Serbian]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} Ukrainian]] descent.[[note]]Born as Milica Jovović to a Serbian father and Russian mother.[[/note]] She's best known for her ActionGirl roles.
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7	In the midst of her modeling career, Milla Jovovich (pronounced mee-luh yo-vo-vitch) made waves in Hollywood with her roles as Michelle in ''Film/DazedAndConfused'', Leeloo in ''Film/TheFifthElement'', and Violet Song in ''[[Film/Ultraviolet2006 Ultraviolet]]''. Today she is best known for playing Alice in the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''.
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9	She tends to work a ''lot'' with her film director significant others, those being former husband Creator/LucBesson and current husband Creator/PaulWSAnderson. She and Anderson have three daughters - Creator/{{Ever\|Anderson}} (who became an actress), Dashiel, and Osian.
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11	She maintains her modeling and fashion designing career, and even had her own clothing line, Jovovich-Hawk, but it went under in 2008. She's also a singer, and although her last official album was released back in 1998, she continues to release demos, sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAl_SE-SOts folk songs]], and contribute to movie soundtracks. However, an as-yet untitled EP is forthcoming.
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13	!!Notable roles:
14	* Lilli Hargrave in ''Film/ReturnToTheBlueLagoon'' (1991)
15	* Mildred Harris in ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' (1992)
16	* Michelle Burroughs in ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' (1993)
17	* Leeloo [[note]]Full name "Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat"[[/note]] in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' (1997)
18	* Dakota Barns in ''Film/HeGotGame'' (1998)
19	* UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc in ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'' (1999)
20	* Katinka Ingaborgovinanana in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' (2001) and ''Film/Zoolander2'' (2016)
21	* Alice in the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''
22	** ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' (2002)
23	** ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' (2004)
24	** ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' (2007)
25	** ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'' (2010)
26	** ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'' (2012)
27	** ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter'' (2016)
28	* Nadine in ''Film/YouStupidMan'' (2002)
29	* Erin in ''Film/NoGoodDeed2002''
30	* Kat in ''Film/FortyFive'' (2006)
31	* Violet Song jat Shariff in ''Film/Ultraviolet2006'' (2006)
32	* Dr. Abbey Tyler in ''Film/TheFourthKind'' (2009)
33	* Milady de Winter in ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers\|2011}}'' (2011)
34	* Kate Abbott in ''Film/{{Survivor\|2015}}'' (2015)
35	* The Drug Lord in ''Film/{{Future World\|2018}}'' (2018)
36	* Nimue the Blood Queen in ''Film/{{Hellboy\|2019}}'' (2019)
37	* [[GenderBlenderName Senior Agent Bruce]] in ''Film/TheRookies'' (2019)
38	* Capt. Natalie Artemis in ''Film/{{Monster Hunter\|2020}}'' (2020)
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40	!!Tropes associated with Milla Jovovich's roles:
41	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Done with a nod to the audience in ''Film/TheFourthKind''. The film is presented as a dramatization of a real life incident ([[BasedOnAGreatBigLie it isn't]]), and footage of the 'real' Abigail Tyler is often shown in comparison with Milla, who is shown as more improbably attractive for a small town therapist.
42	* ActionGirl: A common role she's typecast in. Especially after her role in ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
43	* BarefootLoon: She played an eccentric perpetually barefoot girl called Eloise in Wim Wenders' "Million Dollar Hotel". She even walked barefoot for two months in real life to get used to the role.
44	* CostumeBacklash: She didn't like the skimpy costume she had for ''Film/TheFifthElement'', mostly because it meant she got lewd comments from the crew.
45	* CreatorBacklash: She has nothing nice to say about ''Return to the Blue Lagoon''. She also disliked ''Film/Ultraviolet2006''.
46	* CreatorCouple:
47	** She was Luc Besson's wife when he directed her in ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc''.
48	** Paul WS Anderson has directed her in the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''.
49	* CrossDressingVoices: She voiced a 10-year-old boy in the Russian CGI film ''A Hero's Tail''.
50	* DyeingForYourArt:
51	** She dyed her hair blonde in the first 3 Resident Evil movies.
52	** For ''Film/TheFifthElement'', Milla's hair was to be dyed from its natural brown color to her character's signature orange color. However, due to the fact that her hair had to be re-dyed regularly to maintain the bright color, Milla's hair quickly became too damaged and broken to withstand the dye. Eventually a wig was created to match the color and style of Leeloo's hair, and was used for the remainder of the production.
53	* FakeAmerican: Since she has an American accent naturally, she's often cast as them.
54	* FullFrontalAssault: She gets naked a LOT in her movies. Sometimes full frontal.
55	* GirlyBruiser: She's traditionally feminine and very beautiful and a highly skilled martial artist who is well versed in Wushu, Karate, Taekwondo and Brazilian JiuJitsu.
56	* LadyInRed: Most famously as Alice but she wears red a lot and [[MsFanservice looks very good doing so.]]
57	* LargeHam: She's so hyper, it's incredible. Most definitely in ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'', ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' and ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011''.
58	* LoopingLines: She redubbed her entire role in ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' to give Alice a lower vocal register.
59	* MethodActing: She trained for 3 months of fighting and using guns for the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' and ''Film/Ultraviolet2006''.
60	* MsFanservice: She's often the only reason people go to see her less-than-stellar movies. She knows it, and she's a good sport about it. Once when asked why people should see ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', she replied, [[{{Fanservice}} "I'm wearing a skimpy dress and holding a machine gun"]]. On the film's DVD commentary she's amazed her husband was able to talk about something completely unrelated while her nipple was visible.
61	* NoStuntDouble: She does many of her own stunts, particularly in the "Resident Evil" series.
62	* PromotedFangirl: She was a huge fan of ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' and Creator/LucBesson, so it was a big surprise for her to have been cast in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' by none other than Besson himself. She even married him (although it only lasted two years).
63	* PlayingAgainstType:
64	** [[spoiler:A VillainProtagonist]] in ''Film/APerfectGetaway''. Also, a punk rocker in ''Dummy'' and a cartoony Russian villainess in ''Zoolander''.
65	** Voicing a 10 year old boy in ''A Hero's Tail''.
66	** ''Film/TheFourthKind'' is a movie where she plays a therapist powerless to protect people from alien abductions.
67	* SensualSlav: In a few of her roles. It helps that she is from Eastern Europe.
68	* StatuesqueStunner: She's about 5'9 and very beautiful.
69	* TypeCasting: Following the ''Resident Evil'' movies, she's been getting a lot of ActionGirl roles, although she has played plenty of other types of characters. If she's not the action heroine, she's usually the seductress who gets naked a lot and does sex scenes. It's hard to find her in a movie where she does not take her clothes off (''Film/TheFourthKind'' is a rare movie where she isn't in ActionGirl or MsFanservice mode).
70	* UnbuiltCastingType: Before she was typecast as {{Action Girls}}, she starred in ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'', where she plays Jeanne as someone who's horrified by the bloodshed she takes part in, and suffers SanitySlippage as things continue.

Context Creator / MillaJovovich