Milla Jovovich

Modeling

At the age of eleven, Jovovich was spotted by the photographer Richard Avedon, who featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In October 1987, she was featured on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine Lei, which was the first of her many cover shoots. In 1988, she also made her first professional model contract. Later she made it to the cover of The Face, which led to new contracts and covers of the Vogue and Cosmopolitan.

Jovovich is also an "international spokesmodel" for L'Oreal cosmetics and was the highest paid supermodel in 2004. In 2006 Jovovich was picked up by Spanish clothing line Mango as their new spokesmodel and is currently featured in ads for Engo told Vogue.com that Jovovich is "the image of the woman that [we] wish to dress: a very modern woman, with personality and self-confidence". She has said that she enjoys having both a modelling and an acting career, and that she is "very grateful for [her] looks", which allow her to "make really great film choices".

Acting

Jovovich's mother was directing her in her artistic career and had "raised [her] to be a movie star." She enrolled Jovovich to an actors' school in California; she finished as the best pupil, as she did in the ballet school. She continued to act and in 1988, appeared in her first film role, the romance thriller Two Moon Junction. In 1991, Jovovich had a starring role in the romance adventure sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon, opposite Brian Krause, which led to comparisons between her and child model-turned-actress, Brooke Shields (who had starred in the original Blue Lagoon). For her role, she was nominated for both 'Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture' in the 1991 Young Artist Awards, and 'Worst New Star' in the 1991 Golden Raspberry Awards. Most of Jovovich's film appearances during the late 1980s and early 1990s were in supporting or cameo roles in shows such as Married with Children. Also notable was her role in Dazed and Confused in 1993 wherein she sang lines from "The Alien Song" from her album The Divine Comedy.

Jovovich received top billing by entering the world of action heroes, with her performances in The Fifth Element (1997) and in three popular films based upon the survival horror series, Resident Evil. Jovovich's film, the science fiction/action thriller Ultraviolet, was released on March 3, 2006. It was not screened for critics, but when reviewed, it was critically panned. It has grossed $17 million at the domestic box office. She stars in the third film in the Resident Evil series titled Resident Evil: Extinction; her latest film. The film was the #1 movie at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend, grossing an estimated $24 million in 2,828 theaters. It opened stronger than the previous film, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which opened with $23 million in 3,284 theaters (over 450 more theaters than Extinction).

Music

In 1994, Jovovich, billed under her first name, released her critically acclaimed first musical album, The Divine Comedy. Featuring unique-sounding songs that fused pop with traditional Ukrainian folk music influences, the album led to comparisons with musicians Tori Amos and Kate Bush.

1998 saw the release of The Peopletree Sessions, a CD of "electronic folk music". Jovovich now claims that she did not authorize this CD, but its producer counters that she personally approved the CD and the liner notes and photos in its packaging, and authorized its release to the "underground" market (online and indie record shops). The CD featured electronic beats merged with scattered lyrics, a big change from her wistful first release.

Jovovich also led a band called Plastic Has Memory that played about a dozen shows in Los Angeles and New York City in 1999. Though Plastic Has Memory was featured on Hollywood Goes Wild, a benefit celebrity compilation CD, the group never formally released a record and is no longer together.

Jovovich recorded the single Rocket Collecting, which appeared on the soundtrack for the film Underworld. Her vocals also appeared on the 2004 album Legion of Boom by The Crystal Method.

Milla continues to write songs, which she calls "demos". These demos are provided for free in MP3 format on her website and Jovovich provides license to freely download and remix the tracks, but reserves the right to sell and issue them.

Jovovich has reportedly been working with Maynard James Keenan of Tool on his side project Puscifer, so far having contributed vocals to the track "REV 22:20"