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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Milla Jovovich was born on 17 December 1975 in Kiev, Ukraine, Jovovich was raised by Bogich, a pediatrician, and Russian actress Galina Longinova. The family left Kiev in 1981, landing first in London and eventually settling in Sacramento, CA.
Her parents struggled to make ends meet in their new home, with her mother resorting to cleaning houses - among her clients was director Brian DePalma - when her Russian acting credits failed to find her roles in the States. Following a divorce with her mother in 1991, Jovovich's father was incarcerated for five years due to his role in an insurance fraud scheme; he was released in 1999.
Her mother also had photographs taken of Jovovich and submitted them to a modeling agency. Almost immediately, she was signed and began landing top print modeling jobs. Famed photographer Richard Avedon featured the 11-year-old unknown in his "Most Unforgettable Women of the World" spots for Revlon.
After marrying Paul W.S. Anderson, whom she had started dating in 2003 - only to break up briefly before reconciling - Jovovich starred as an Alaskan psychotherapist whose videotaped sessions with a patient offers compelling evidence of an alien abduction in "The Fourth Kind" (2009). The following year, she again played the zombie-killing Alice in the fourth installment of the series, "Resident Evil: Afterlife" (2010), which earned its requisite scathing reviews and yet success at the box office.
One lucky Marine in Afghanistan is shouting "Hoorah" right about now.That's because Mila Kunis, the sexy "Black Swan" actress, has accepted Marine Sgt. Scott Moore's invitation to be his date to the Marine Corps Ball in November.The actress said yes over the weekend, while doing press for her upcoming film, "Friends with Benefits," with co-star Justin Timberlake.
Last week, Moore, from the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, set up a YouTube page called Go With Me Mila and posted a video asking the 27-year-old starlet to accompany him to the ball on Nov. 18th in Greenville, N.C."Hey Mila, Sgt. Moore, but you can call me Scotty," the sergeant said in uniform and dark sunglasses outside his bunker in Afghanistan. "I just want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the Marine Corps Ball with yours truly. So take a second to think about it and get back to me. All right, bye now."
The 20-second video touched Timberlake, who vowed to make it happen when Fox411 asked Kunis about the invite."Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? You need to do it for your country," Timberlake asked Kunis.Then, in a message intended for Moore, Timberlake said, "I'm going to work on this, man. This needs to go down."Taking a second to confer with her publicist, Kunis agreed. "I'll go. I'll do it for you," she said before asking Timberlake if he was going as well?""They don't want me! They want you," Timberlake responded. "You need to do it for your country."
ABCNews.com did not get an immediate response from Kunis' rep. Nor did Moore respond immediately to e-mails.A lot of folks were cheering the Marine on his YouTube page Monday. "Ha! She said yes! Lucky sucker! Congrats man!" one person wrote.Like a lot of other people, that person may have been wishing he had come up with Moore's idea sooner.
