Milla Jovovich

 Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich (/joUv@vItS/YOH-v@–vitch), also known as Milla Jovovich is an American actress. Her role as a model in numerous action and science-fiction movies have led VH1 to name her the "reigning queens of kick-butt". In 2006, Forbes ranked her the top model and actress in the United States. Jovovich was born in Kiev (now Kyiv), and started modeling in 1987 when Herb Ritts took a photo of her to use for the cover of the magazine. Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Famous women in the World" advertisements. Jovovich's debut on screen was in 1988 in The Night Train to Kathmandu. She was also in Two Moon Junction, her first feature film. Jovovich was only 15 when she appeared in the romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon. [8] Her role in The Fifth Element, a 1997 French science-fiction action movie directed and written by Luc Besson was considered a significant breakthrough. She and Besson married that year, however, they divorced shortly afterwards.