Milla Jovovich do me dal diqka shqiptare Milla Jovovich was born in 1975 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, former Soviet Union, the daughter of Bogić Jovović, a Serbian pediatrician,[11][12] and Galina Jovovich (née Loginova), a Russian stage actress.[13][14] She was raised in the Russian Orthodox religion.[15] She identifies as both Russian and Serbian,[16] and also Ukrainian.[17][18] Millas paternal familys estate was in Zlopek near Peć. Her paternal great-grandfather, Bogić Camić Jovović, was a flag-bearer of the Vasojevići clan and an officer in the guard of King Nicholas I of Montenegro; his wife was Milica, after whom Milla was named. Her paternal grandfather Bogdan Jovović was a commander in the Pristina military area. He investigated finances in Skopje and Sarajevo, where he uncovered massive gold embezzlement by the military. He was punished for refusing to testify against a friend charged in the crime. This resulted in the government briefly imprisoning Jovović in Goli otok. Fearing arrest again, he escaped to Albania and later moved to Kiev. (A different version of the story claims that he was the one who took the gold.) Millas father Bogić and his sister later joined their father Bogdan in Kiev, where both siblings graduated in medicine.[19] Her mother Galina Loginova was born in Tuapse (now in Russia) but moved with her family in childhood to Dnipropetrovsk (now in Ukraine).[20] Her mother acted in several films, including Vykrutasy (a.k.a. Lucky Trouble), a Russian romantic comedy released in 2011, starring her daughter Milla and actor Konstantin Khabenskiy. In 1980, when Milla was five years old, her family left the Soviet Union for political reasons[21] and moved to London. They subsequently immigrated to Sacramento, California, settling in Los Angeles seven months later. Millas parents divorced soon after their arrival in Los Angeles. In 1988, her father had a relationship with an Argentine woman, and they had a son, Marco Jovovich.[22][23] Due to her parents divorce years before, Milla saw little of her half brother.[24] In Los Angeles, Galina Jovovich tried to support her and Milla by acting jobs, but found little success because of language barriers, and eventually resorted to cleaning houses to earn money. Both parents served as cooks and housekeepers for director Brian De Palma.[25] Millas father was convicted and imprisoned for participating in an illegal operation concerning medical insurance; he was given a 20-year sentence in 1994,[26] but was released in 1999 after serving five years.[27] According to Milla, Prison was good for him. Hes become a much better person. It gave him a chance to stop and think.[28] Milla attended public schools in Los Angeles, becoming fluent in English in three months.[29] In school, she was teased by classmates for coming from the Soviet Union: I was called a commie and a Russian spy. I was never, ever, ever accepted into the crowd.[30] At age 12, Milla left seventh grade to focus on modeling, which she had started at age nine.[31] She has said she was rebellious during her early teens, engaging in drug use, shopping mall vandalism, and credit-card fraud.[28] In 1994, she became naturalized as a U.S. citizen at the age of 19.[32]
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