Milla Jovovich's 10 Best Movies
Celebrating model, actress, and musician Milla Jovovich's 47th birthday with a list of her greatest on-screen moments.
As a woman who’s held the titles of Forbes’ highest-paid model in the world and VH1’s “reigning queen of kick-butt,” it’s clear that Milla Jovovich excels in whatever she does. The American actress-model-musician hybrid began modeling at the age of 12 and appeared in her first feature film, Two Moon Junction, the next year. Now, Jovovich has firmly cemented a career as an actress and made a significant impact on the action genre—hence VH1’s generous title. To celebrate her birthday, L'OFFICIEL rounds up her top 10 best movies.
In this biographical comedy-drama about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jovovich plays Mildred Harris, Chaplin's first wife. They meet at a party and soon begin dating. As Chaplin's career skyrockets, he marries Harris, only for the two to separate after the premature death of their only child.
This classic stoner film starring Jovovich, Ben Affleck, and Matthew McConaughey, among others, is one of those movies about nothing. It has no real plot, but follows a group of Texas teenagers during their last day of school in 1976. A period piece about teenage life in the '70s, the memorable characters in the film helped it earn critical acclaim. Jovovich plays Michelle Burroughs, the girlfriend of Shawn Andrews as Kevin Pickford.
In addition to her recurring role in the Resident Evil franchise, Jovovich's role as Leeloo in The Fifth Element is perhaps how most film fans recognize her. This sci-fi action film follows cab driver Korben Dallis (Bruce Willis) and Leeloo, an alien, on a journey to save Earth from an impending cosmic entity.
Spike Lee wrote, produced, and directed this film in which the convicted father of a top-ranked basketball prospect is released on parole for one week in order to convince his son to play for Big State, the governor's alma mater. The father, Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington), stays in a hotel during his release and Jovovich plays Dakota Barns, a prostitue staying in the room next to him. The two develop a romantic relationship as he helps her deal with abuse at the hands of her pimp.
This historical film portrays the story of Joan of Arc, a French war heroine and religious martyr. A 24-year-old Jovovich plays an iron-clad Joan, cast by her husband at the time, Luc Besson, who also directed The Fifth Element.
In this romantic film, Jovovich plays Lucia, the Portuguese love interest of the main male character. Dillon (Peter Mullan) is a rich pioneer who runs a mining town called Kingdom Come, and Lucia runs a saloon/brothel, the only business in Kingdom Come that Dillon doesn't own.
Jovovich tries her hand at comedy in this classically funny film, but she plays the story's villain, Katinka Ingabogovinanana. International male supermodel Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is manipulated into a plot to kill Malaysia's prime minister by designer Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell). Katinka is Mugatu's henchwoman whose role is to make sure the plan runs smoothly.
In this comedy-drama film, Adrien Brody stars as Steven, an aimless and unemployed 30-something who decides to attempt ventriloquism. Jovovich plays Fanny, his equally lost best friend, who aspires to be a punk rock singer.
Jovovich's role as Alice in the Resident Evil action horror film franchise is one of her most famous. Loosely based on the video game series of the same name, Resident Evil follows Alice, an amnesiac, as she attempts to contain the outbreak of a genetically-engineered virus called the T-virus. The 2002 film was followed by five sequels, the final of which premiered in 2016.
Jovovich joins Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, and Steve Zahn to play a group of two vacationing couples who find danger rapidly approaching as murders begin to occur on the Hawaiian island they thought would be paradise.
