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Pronunciation of her name is Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.
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During filming of Dazed and Confused 1993, she eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas in 1992, months before her 17th birthday. Her mother had the marriage annulled because she was only 16.
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For The Fifth Element 1997, the production dyed her naturally brown hair to Leeloo’s signature orange, but the regular dyeing caused severe damage, leading to significant hair loss. A wig was used for the remainder of filming.
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Despite being on posters, most of her scenes from Dazed and Confused were cut from the final film. Upset, she took a three-year break from acting to focus on music until she was cast in The Fifth Element.
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She is claustrophobic and described the scariest scene as being in a small tank for Resident Evil: Apocalypse 2004.
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She took the role in Resident Evil 2002 because her brother was a huge fan of the video game.
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She performed almost all her own stunts in Resident Evil 2002.
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She became fluent in English within three months of attending public school.
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She enjoys martial arts and practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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She attended high school with Christina Applegate and later made a guest appearance on Married… with Children 1987. Both were raised by single mothers.
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She considers the romance sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon 1991 the worst film she ever made.
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With husband Paul W.S. Anderson, she is mother 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.
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Her ethnicity is half Serbian paternal and half Russian maternal.
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As a teenage girl, she lived with her single mother because her father spent seven years in prison, leading to her parents’ divorce.
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Her favorite horror movie is The Shining 1980.
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On August 22, 2009, she married her boyfriend of 7 years, Paul W.S. Anderson, after a 6-year engagement. They have a 21-month-old daughter Ever.
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For Zoolander 2001, she based her character Katinka on her mother Galina Jovovich.
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At age 11, she was used in Revlon’s Most Unforgettable Women in the World advertisements, shot by Richard Avedon.
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She is good friends with Michelle Rodriguez.
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She was bullied in school for being from the Soviet Union.
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In Million Dollar Hotel, her character spends the entire movie barefoot. To prepare, she went barefoot for two months straight beforehand.
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Her father is a Serbian pediatrician from Belgrade, Serbia, who moved to Russia and married her mother there.
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Interview magazine named her one of the Twenty Most Beautiful People of the Decade in 2009.
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She has said she was rebellious during her early teens, engaging in drug use, shopping mall vandalism, and credit-card fraud.
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She once fronted a band called Plastic Has Memory.
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Her surname meant son of Jovan.
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She returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Ever to begin filming A Perfect Getaway 2009.
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She has one half-brother named Marco born 1988.
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Australian Empire magazine voted her the Sexiest Female Movie Star.
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She has a small cameo in The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996, appearing in a TV commercial watched by Jeff Bridges’ character.
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She owns a 5559-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills purchased in 1998 for $775,000; a 4026-square-foot house in Beverly Hills purchased in 2004 for $2,223,000; and a 3010-square-foot house in Doral, Florida purchased in 2005 for $910,000.
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She divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
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Her music video The Gentleman Who Fell is based on Maya Deren’s short film Meshes of the Afternoon 1943.
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She sold her four-bedroom, 3582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills for $2.75 million in 2009, which she had purchased in late 2001 for $1.8 million.
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She 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.
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She frequently attends big show business events such as celebrity parties, premieres, openings, fashion shows, and awards shows, and is a fixture in magazine paparazzi sections.
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VH1 ranked her #65 on its 100 Most Hottest Celebrity Bodies list.
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The Spanish version of DT magazine named her #43 Sexiest Woman in 2011.
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She directed the music video Signal for singer Christopher Michael Taylor.
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She does not remember her life in Ukraine at all.
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FHM ranked her #98 in its 2005 list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
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Maxim magazine named her #82 on its Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
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She had a body double for her nude scene in Chaplin because she was only 16 at the time.
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She speaks fluent English and Russian.
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She holds American and Russian passports.
