Resident Evil : Afterlife 3D | About the Cast | Milla Jovovich

MILLA JOVOVICH (Alice) has successfully established herself as a highly regarded, international model and actress.  Jovovich, (pronounced "mee-luh" "yo-vo-vitch") has transitioned effortlessly to a full time actress, starring in over two dozen films.

Star of the Resident Evil franchise, Jovovich will reprise her role as “Alice” in the fourth installment of the film for Sony Screen Gems. In Resident Evil: Afterlife, Alice is on a mission to save survivors in from falling victim to the Undead in a world ravaged by a virus infection.  Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the film will be released nationwide on September 10, 2010.

In October 2010, Jovovich will star alongside Academy Award® winner Robert DeNiro and Academy Award® nominee Edward Norton in Stone. In the film, Jovovich portrays the wife of a convicted arsonist (Edward Norton) who is deployed in a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with his parole officer (Robert De Niro).  The Overture film is directed by John Curran.

Jovovich recently wrapped two independent films, including Faces in the Crowd, a psychological thriller centering on a woman (Jovovich) who barely survives an attack by a serial killer and wakes up in hospital with a head injury that leaves her "face-blind" (prosopagnosia). No longer able to recognize faces, she must navigate a world in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them. All the while the killer is closing in, determined to eliminate the potential witness. Julian McMahon also stars.  In Dirty Girl, Jovovich stars alongside William H. Macy and Juno Temple. “Dirty Girl” is a comedic story of the search for identity and the redemptive power of unexpected friendship. Danielle (Temple) is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.

In July 2010, Jovovich will portray the lead in Bringing Up Bobby, the directorial debut of actress Famke Janssen. Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist (Jovovich) and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life. The film will shoot over the course of one month in Oklahoma.

Upon wrapping Bringing Up Bobby, Jovovich will commence production on The Three Musketeers, reteaming with director Paul W.S. Anderson.  Jovovich will portray Milady de Winter alongside a cast which also includes Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans and Mads Mikkelson. Filming begins in September in Europe.

At the age of eleven, Jovovich was spotted by photographer Richard Avedon, who featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In October 1987, she was on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine Lei, her first of many covers. In 1988, she signed her first professional modeling contract.

Milla has appeared in hundreds of magazines and on dozens of covers. She has been featured in ad campaigns for several brands, including Banana Republic, Christian Dior, Damiani, Donna Karan, Gap, Versace, Mango, Etro. Milla has been an international spokesmodel for L'Oréal cosmetics since 1998. In addition to L'Oréal, Milla has been in campaigns for L'Oréal, ICB, Ann Taylor, and Mercedes-Benz recently.

Milla's early modeling led to acting roles, and in 1988 she appeared in her first film role in the romance thriller Two Moon Junction. Her first leading role was in Return to the Blue Lagoon in 1991, for which she was nominated for the "Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture" in the 1991 Young Artist Awards. She appeared on some TV shows around this time and also in the films Kuffs (1992), Chaplin (1992), and Dazed and Confused (1993).

Milla's breakout role was as Leeloo, the perfect being in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). She later starred in several other action movies besides the Resident Evil trilogy such as Ultraviolet (2006), A Perfect Getaway (2009), and The Fourth Kind (2009).

Milla has also been in several comedies and dramas, including Spike Lee's He Got Game (1998), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), The Claim (2000), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), Zoolander (2001), Dummy (2003), No Good Deed (2003) and You Stupid Man (2003).

In 1994, Milla released her critically acclaimed folk album, The Divine Comedy. Inspired by a love of "elves and magic trees", Milla wrote the lyrics at 15 and recorded the album when she was just 16. Acoustic, folky, and hard to categorize, the eleven songs on The Divine Comedy are laced with Slavic sadness and X-istential self-doubt. "In a Glade" is a beautiful traditional Ukrainian folk song that Milla sings in her native tongue.

Milla led a band called Plastic Has Memory which played about a dozen shows in Los Angeles and New York City in 1999. Although Plastic Has Memory never released a record, they did contribute one song, "On the Hill", to Hollywood Goes Wild, a benefit CD for The Wildlife Waystation.

Milla performed the song "Left and Right" at Fashion Rocks in London, England in October 2003 (MP3). She has also had songs on several albums, including 2 cover versions of Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love" on the The Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack (2000), "Rocket Collecting" on the “Underworld” soundtrack (2003), and "Shein Vi Di L'Vone" & "Mezinka" (Yiddish Klezmer songs) on the Dummy soundtrack (2003).

Milla has collaborated with Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan of Tool and A Perfect Circle) several times. She sang on "Rev 22:20" on the Underworld soundtrack (2003) and also on the Renholder remix of The Cure's "Underneath The Stars" on the Underworld: Rise of the Lycans soundtrack (2009).  Milla also sings on "The Mission" and performed live with Puscifer at The Pearl in Las Vegas on February 13, 2009.  Milla sang on "We Are Family" (2001) (American Red Cross benefit CD), "Former Lover" from Deepak Chopra's album, A Gift of Love II: Oceans of Ecstasy (2002), and "I Know It's You" by The Crystal Method (2004).  Milla continues to write demos. These demos are available here for free. Fans are encouraged to enjoy them and remix them, but may not sell them.

Jovovich-Hawk was a fashion line founded by Milla and Carmen Hawk in 2003. Jovovich-Hawk was a finalist in 2006 for the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)/Vogue Fashion Fund initiative. The popular fashion chainMango released a Jovovich-Hawk for MNG collection in 2007. Jovovich-Hawk ended in 2008.

Milla is an ambassador for amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) and also supports several other charities, including OCRF (Ovarian Cancer Research Fund), The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Wildlands Project, and UNESCO World Heritage Centre.

When she is not in production, Milla resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter, Ever.