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48 years old (Born on December 17, 1975)

model and actress; She is famous from The Fifth Element and Resident Evil.

Frequently attends big show business events such as celebrity parties, premieres, openings, fashion shows, and awards shows. Is a fixture in magazine paparazzi sections because of this. Once fronted a band called Plastic Has Memory. Daughter, Ever Anderson, born 3 November 2007. Father is her fiancu00e9, Paul W.S. Anderson. Her native language is Russian. Besides Russian, she`s also fluent in French, English, and Serbian.

Voted the Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.

Named #82 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.

Has been on the cover of more than one hundred magazines worldwide.

Name pronounced Mee-la Yo-vo-vitch.

At the age of just eleven, she was used in Revlon`s "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, which were shot by Richard Avedon.

As a teenage girl she lived with her single mother, because her father spent seven years in prison, and her parents divorced.

Performed almost all of her own stunts in Resident Evil (2002).

Mother is Russian actress Galina Jovovich.

Has one sibling, a half-brother named Marco.

She was #65 on VH1`s 100 Most Hottest Celebrity bodies

It was announced that she is currently engaged to Resident Evil (2002) and Mortal Kombat (1995) director Paul W.S. Anderson (March, 2003).

She has bluish-green eyes and brown hair originally.

Went to high school with Christina Applegate; then later made a guest appearance on "Married with Children" (1987).

Ranked #98 in FHM`s 100 Sexiest Women in the World (2005).

Measurements: 34B-22-33, as a 16-year-old model. But since matured to a 35B. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

She enjoys martial arts and she practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Father is a Serbian pediatrician, from Belgrad Serbia, who moved to Russia and married her mother there.

Her music video, "The Gentleman Who Fell" is based on Maya Deren`s short film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).

While filming the movie Dazed and Confused (1993), she eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas. It was 1992 and a few months before she turned seventeen. Since she was only sixteen at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.