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Milla's family
is Montenegrin in origin, their estate being at
Metohija in Zlopek near Pec. Her great-grandfather
Bogic Camic Jovovic was flag-bearer of the Vasojevici
tribe and officer of the guard of the King Nicholas
I of Montenegro; his wife's name was also Militza.
Her grandfather Bogdan Jovovic was commander of
the Pristina military area and later led finances
in military areas of Skoplje and Sarajevo where
he uncovered massive gold embezzlement; refusing
to convict his friend for that, he was punished.
Later, the communist government imprisoned him
on Goli Otok. When he feared that he could be
arrested again, he escaped to Albania and later
came to the Soviet Union, in Kiev. Bogic, Milla's
father, later joined him in Kiev where he and
his sister graduated in medicine.
Milla Jovovich in the first Resident Evil film.The Jovovics
later moved to London and in 1981, when Milla
was five years old, to Sacramento, California;
just seven months later they settled in Los Angeles,
California. She has done extensive modeling since
she was eleven years old. She speaks Serbian,
Russian, French and English fluently. |
She became a film actress
in the late 1980s as a teenager and gained popularity
through her appearance in Return to the Blue Lagoon
(1991) which led to inevitable comparisons between
her and another child model-turned-actress, Brooke
Shields (who had starred in the original The Blue
Lagoon 11 years earlier). Most of her early appearances
were in supporting or cameo roles, but by the
late 1990s she was receiving top billing and entered
the world of action heroes with her performances
in two films based upon the video game series,
Resident Evil.
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