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Milla Jovovich (1975) is an American actress, supermodel and musician of Serbian and Russian descent. She is best known for her roles in Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (1997) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), and especially for the action horror film franchise Resident Evil (2002-2016).

Milla Jovovich was born Milica Bogdanovna Yovovich in 1975 in Kyiv, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and now Ukraine. She is the daughter of Bogdan Jovović, a Serbian doctor and Galina Loginova Jovović, a Russian actress. When Jovovich was five years old, her family emigrated from the Soviet Union to London in 1981 for political reasons. They then moved to the United States and lived in Sacramento, California, before moving to Los Angeles seven months later. A short time later, her parents separated. They eventually divorced, because her father was arrested and spent several years in prison. In Los Angeles, her mother tried to get acting jobs but failed because of language barriers. She eventually resorted to cleaning houses to earn money. Milla’s mother supported her in her plans to become an actress, and so Jovovich enrolled at a professional acting school in California in 1985. When she was 11, Jovovich was noticed by photographer Richard Avedon and left seventh grade to focus on modelling. In October 1987, she appeared on the cover of Italian fashion magazine Lei, photographed by Herb Ritts. This was the first of many covers in her career. In 1988, she played her first professional role in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu (Robert Wiemer, 1988) as Lily McLeod. In the same year, she had a small role as Samantha Delongpre in the erotic thriller Two Moon Junction (Zalman King, 1988) starring Sherilyn Fenn. When she was 15, Jovovich had a leading role in the romantic South Seas adventure Return to the Blue Lagoon (William A. Graham, 1991), a sequel to The Blue Lagoon (Randal Kleiser,1980) starring Brooke Shields. The role was controversial as, like Shields, Jovovich appeared nude in the film. The film was not financially successful, grossing just $2.8 million on an $11 million budget. Like its predecessor, it received negative reviews from critics. In 1992, she starred alongside Christian Slater in the action comedy Kuffs (Bruce A. Evans, 1992) and landed a small role as Mildred Harris in the biopic Chaplin (Richard Attenborough, 1992) starring Robert Downey Jr. The following year, she starred in the cult film Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) as Michelle Burroughs, the girlfriend of Pickford (Shawn Andrews). During filming, Andrews also became her boyfriend in real life. The 16-year-old Jovovich married him, but the marriage was annulled less than two months later at her mother's request. Strongly featured in promotions for the film, Jovovich was upset to find her role much reduced in the released film. Milla decided to take a break from acting for the next 3 years to focus on her music career. Jovovich became a US citizen in 1994. In the same year, she was signed to EMI Records. She released her first album ‘The Divine Comedy’ under this label, which she had already written at the age of 15 and recorded at 16. It received some good reviews but fell short of expectations. A concert in Austin, Texas, on 16 December 1994 - the day before her 19th birthday - was recorded live.

Milla Jovovich made her breakthrough in the cinema as Leeloo in the French Science Fiction film Le cinquième élément/The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) alongside Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Chris Tucker. For the role, Besson and Jovovich co-developed an alien language that had only 400 words. Besson and Jovovich held conversations and wrote letters to each other in the language as practice. By the end of filming, they were able to have full conversations in this language. Jovovich wore a costume that became known as the ‘ACE-bandage’ costume. It consisted of a revealing full-body suit made of medical bandages and was designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. At the time, Le cinquième élément/The Fifth Element was the most expensive film ever produced outside of Hollywood The film was the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival and grossed a total of US$263 million, more than three times its budget of $80 million. Jovovich was nominated for several awards including the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Scene but also a Golden Raspberry. In an interview in 2003, she revealed that the role of Leeloo was her favourite role. In 1997 she married Luc Besson. She played abused prostitute Dakota Burns in Spike Lee's drama He’s Got Game (1998) opposite Denzel Washington. Besson directed her as the French national heroine and saint in Jeanne d'Arc /The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Luc Besson, 1999), but later that year the couple divorced. Although she received good reviews for the film overall, she was also nominated for a Golden Raspberry for her role. Jovovich played the troubled Eloise opposite Mel Gibson in Wim Wenders' thriller The Million Dollar Hotel (Wim Wenders, 2000), based on a screenplay by Bono of the band U2 and Nicholas Klein. Jovovich also sang some of the songs on the film's soundtrack. She then played the bar owner Lucia in the British Western The Empire and the Glory (Michael Winterbottom, 2000) and the diabolical Katinka in the comedy Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001). This satire on the fashion industry was both a critical and box-office success. Jovovich had a huge success as the star of Resident Evil (2002), based on the popular video game series. She played Alice who fights against zombies and the diabolical Umbrella Corporation. She took on the role because she and her brother were fans of the video game series. She did most stunts herself and trained in karate, kickboxing and other martial arts for the film. Resident Evil grossed 102 million US dollars.

Since 2002, Milla Jovovich has been with director Paul W.S. Anderson, who she met on the film set of Resident Evil. They got engaged in 2003 and married in 2009. They have three daughters Osian Lark Elliot Jovovich-Anderson, Dashiel Edan Anderson and Ever Anderson. Milla appeared in ad campaigns for Chanel, Versace, Emporio Armani, Donna Karen, and DKNY. In 2004, she made $10.4 million, becoming the highest-paid supermodel in the world. Modelling and advertising work gave her the financial security she needed to make critically acclaimed films such as the crime thriller No Good Deed (Bob Rafelson, 2002) with Samuel L. Jackson, and the romantic comedy-drama Dummy (Greg Pritikin, 2003) with Adrien Brody. She returned as Alice in the sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt, 2004). It is set directly after the events of the first film, where Alice escaped from an underground facility overrun by zombies. She now bands together with other survivors to escape the zombie outbreak. The sequel received worse reviews than the first part but had greater commercial success. Next, she appeared in the Science Fiction film Ultraviolet (Kurt Wimmer, 2006) which performed poorly at the box office. The third instalment of the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy, 2007) grossed $24 million on its opening weekend in the United States and $147 million worldwide against a $45 million budget. She then played Lucetta, the wife of an imprisoned arsonist (Edward Norton), in the psychological thriller Stone (John Curran, 2010) alongside Robert De Niro. She returned as Alice in the fourth instalment of the Resident Evil saga. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W. S. Anderson, 2010), produced by her husband Paul W. S. Anderson. It was the first film in the series to be shot entirely in 3D. Jovovich starred as Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (Paul W. S. Anderson, 2011), which was also produced by her husband. Jovovich appeared as a Ukrainian con artist in Famke Janssen's directorial debut film Bringing Up Bobby (2011) and played a leading role in the Russian relationship comedy Vykrutasy/Lucky Trouble (Levan Gabriadze, 2011). This was followed in by Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2012), another instalment in the Resident Evil saga. Since 2014, she appeared in at least one film every year. Jovovich once again played the lead role in the sixth and final instalment of the Resident Evil series Resident Evil: Retribution (2016). The Final Chapter was the highest-grossing film in the franchise, earning over US$312 million worldwide. Time Out: "While the franchise has slackened into dependably dumb post-apocalyptic thrills, star Milla Jovovich has only gotten better, seasoning her long-legged athleticism with a commanding stare". Lately, Milla Jovovich could be seen in the American Science Fiction thriller Breathe (Stefon Bristol, 2024) also starring Jennifer Hudson.

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American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, CA, no. Personality # 11, 1977, no. C31775. Photo: Douglas Kirkland / Contact.

American model and actress Margaux Hemingway (1954-1996) was the granddaughter of author Ernest Hemingway She gained success as a supermodel in the mid-1970s and later starred in several films.

Margot Louise Hemingway was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1954. Hemingway was the second of three daughters born to Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway, the eldest child of writer Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway. Actress Mariel Hemingway was her younger sister. She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Ketchum, Idaho. When she learned that she was named after the wine Château Margaux, which her parents drank on the night she was conceived, she changed the spelling from "Margot" to "Margaux" to match. She attended the Catlin Gabel School in Portland for her junior year. Margaux struggled with a variety of disorders beginning in her teenage years, including alcoholism, depression, bulimia, and epilepsy. In the 1990s, Margaux reported that she had been sexually abused by her father as a child. Margaux worked various jobs in the Sun Valley area before travelling to New York City in the mid-1970s. With her striking beauty, she quickly made a name for herself as a model. In 1975, the perfume manufacturer Fabergé Inc. signed her for one million US dollars as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume. This was the first million-dollar contract ever awarded to a fashion model. The 1 September 1975, cover issue of Vogue called Hemingway "New York's New Supermodel". She also appeared on the covers of magazines including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and Time. She was a regular attendee of New York City's exclusive discothèque Studio 54 and began to use alcohol and drugs. In 1976, she made her film debut in the rape and revenge drama Lipstick (Lamont Johnson, 1976), alongside her 14-year-old sister Mariel, and Anne Bancroft. In it, she plays a fashion model who is terrorised by a rapist. The film's violent depiction of rape led it to be labelled an exploitation film, though in later years it had success as a cult film. She followed this with a supporting role in the Italian-French-Brazilian Horror film Killer Fish (Antonio Margheriti, 1979), opposite Lee Majors and Karen Black.

Margaux Hemingway's following film project was the action-comedy They Call Me Bruce? (Elliott Hong, 1982), which starred Johnny Yune. In 1984, Hemingway appeared in Over the Brooklyn Bridge (Menahem Golan, 1984), opposite Elliott Gould and Shelley Winters. Her two marriages, with Erroll Weston and French filmmaker Bernard Faucher at the end of the 1970s, failed. After a skiing accident in 1984, Hemingway gained 75 pounds (34 kg) and became increasingly depressed. In 1987, she checked into the Betty Ford Center. As a result, she suffered increasingly from her alcoholism. The attempt to overcome her addiction failed and Hemingway became increasingly lonely. Attempting to make a comeback, she appeared on the cover of Playboy in May 1990. Hemingway's budding film career began to falter, and she took roles in several B-movies, including Inner Sanctum (Fred Olen Ray, 1991) with Tanya Roberts and A Woman's Secret (Joe D'Amato, 1992). In 1996, she ended her life in Santa Monica at the age of 42. She lived alone in a studio apartment, with no children, no lover, and only a few friends. After neighbours had not seen her for several days, the police broke open a window to her flat and found Hemingway dead. Dental records had to be used to confirm her identity. It was a day before the death anniversary of her grandfather, who also committed suicide 35 years earlier. Her final film, the thriller Backroads to Vegas (Kirsten Bulmer, 1996) with Casper Van Dien, was released in 1999, and a scheduled biopic was shelved.

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American model and actress Suzy Parker (1932–2003) was known in the 1950s as the most photographed woman in the world and is now considered as the very first Supermodel. The red-headed beauty defined glamour in the 1950s and in 1956, at the height of her modelling career, became the first model to earn $100,000 per year. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Parker also became the glamorous star of several Hollywood productions.

In 1932, Suzy Parker was born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker in Long Island City, New York, to George and Elizabeth Parker. George disliked the name Cecilia and called her Susie, a name which Parker would retain throughout her life. A French Vogue photographer later changed the spelling to Suzy. Parker's family moved to Highland Park, New Jersey, and then to Florida. When Parker was 15, sister Dorian (Leigh Parker), herself one of the top models of the era, introduced her to Eileen Ford. In the period just after World War II, models were becoming celebrities and Suzy would become even more famous than Dorian. A photo of the 15-year-old appeared that year in Life magazine and one of her first magazine advertisements was for DeRosa Jewelry. While still in high school in Jacksonville, Fla., she modeled in the summers for Ford Models, and after graduation went to work full time for the agency. Although she still lived with her parents in Florida, she stayed in New York City with Dorian when she had modeling assignments there. Dorian introduced Parker to her fashion-photographer friends, Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, John Rawlings, and a young Richard Avedon. Parker became Avedon's muse and the so-called signature face of the Coco Chanel brand. Along with other models like Dovima and Lisa Fonssagrives, Parker signified a postwar world of stylish promise for all. She was the first model to earn $200 per hour and $100,000 per year (ca. 900,000 today). Vogue declared her one of the faces of the confident, post-war American woman. She worked also non-stop for Vogue, Revlon, Hertz, Westinghouse, Max Factor, Bliss, DuPont, Simplicity, Smirnoff, and Ronson shavers. Parker also was on the covers of about 70 magazines around the world, including Vogue, Elle, Life, Look, and Paris Match. In the mid-1950s she abandoned being a cover girl for a few years to be a photographer herself, apprenticing with Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and working for the French edition of Vogue.

Suzy Parker's next step was a Hollywood career. Photographer Richard Avedon recommended her for a fashionable cameo in Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957), starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Douglas Martin in the New York Times: "Parker's trademark in photographs and later on the movie screen was icy sophistication, often likened to that of Grace Kelly, but in person she exuded a girl-next-door prettiness and a sort of wacky loquaciousness. Audrey Hepburn's role in Funny Face, as a fast-talking beatnik who somewhat unwillingly becomes a world-famous model, was inspired by her". Suzy herself was on screen for just two minutes in a musical number described as 'Think Pink number'. But director Stanley Donen then gave her a leading role in his comedy Kiss Them for Me (Stanley Donen, 1957), opposite Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield. However, the film was a disappointment and Parker's acting got negative reviews. Parker got better reviews for her next appearances in the dramas Ten North Frederick (Philip Dunne, 1958) with Gary Cooper, and The Best of Everything (Jean Negulesco, 1959). During the shooting of the British war film A Circle of Deception (Jack Lee, 1960), she met future husband Bradford Dillman. Her later films include Flight from Ashiya (Michael Anderson, 1964) with Yul Brynner, and Chamber of Horrors (Hy Averback, 1966). She also played dramatic roles in TV shows such as Burke's Law (1963) plus appearances as herself on a number of quiz shows such as I've Got a Secret. Her most famous television appearance was in a 1963 episode of Twilight Zone in which she played six different parts. Parker's last role was in a 1970 episode of Night Gallery. She did, in a way, make one other film 'appearance' in The Beatles' documentary film Let It Be (1970), in which the band performed their song Suzy Parker. The song, one of the few credited as written by all four Beatles, was part of their Academy Award-winning score for the original songs they performed in the film. Suzy Parker was married three times. In 1950, she married her high-school sweetheart, Ronald Staton, and divorced him in 1953. In 1955, Parker married French journalist Pierre de la Salle with whom she had a daughter, Georgia. They divorced in 1961. In 1963 she became Suzy Parker Dillman. After a car accident in 1964, Parker mostly retired from modeling and focused on her family. She had three more children with Bradford: daughter Dinah (born 1965) and sons Charlie (1967) and Christopher (1969). The family lived in Bel Air, Los Angeles, until Dinah was bitten by a rattlesnake in the yard and almost died.They then moved to Montecito in the Santa Barbara area, where Suzy Parker remained until her death in 2003. She was 69.

Sources: Douglas Martin (New York Times), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Tyra Banks (1973) is an American television personality, actress and a former Supermodel. She appeared in films like Higher Learning (1995) and Coyote Ugly (2000). From 2003 on, she had a long-running smash hit as creator and presenter of the reality TV series America's Next Top Model.

Tyra Lynne Banks was born in Inglewood, California in 1973. Her mother, Carolyn London (now London-Johnson), is a medical photographer, and her father, Donald Banks, is a computer consultant. Her mother would later works as her manager. In 1979, when Banks was six years old, her parents divorced. Tyra began her career as a model at the age of 15, while attending school in Los Angeles. She was rejected by four modeling agencies before she was signed by L.A. Models. She switched to Elite Model Management at age 16. Banks was one of only a few Black models to achieve Supermodel status. In the mid-1990s, Banks returned to America to do more commercial modeling. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, she was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition. She was captured in a red/pink polka dot bikini by Australian photographer Russel James for the issue that went on to become one of the best-selling covers ever for the magazine. By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the world's top-earning models. In 1993, Tyra Banks began acting on television in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which she played lead character Will Smith's old friend Jackie Ames. She made her film debut in Higher Learning (John Singleton, 1995). In 2000 she had major roles such as Eve, a doll who comes to life in the Disney TV film Life-Size (Mark Rosman, 2000) and as Zoe in the box-office hit Coyote Ugly (David McNally, 2000). She had small roles in the romantic film Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2000) and the horror film Halloween: Resurrection (Rick Rosenthal, 2002), with Jamie Lee Curtis. She also appeared in the TV series Gossip Girl (2010-2011) and Glee (2013). In 2018, she returned on TV as the character Eve in the sequel Life-Size 2, (Steven Tsuchida, 2018).

In 2003, Tyra Banks created and began presenting the long-running reality television series America's Next Top Model, which she executive produced and presented for the first twenty-two seasons until the series' cancellation in October 2015. She remained executive producer for the revival of the series, and enlisted Rita Ora as host for the twenty-third cycle before reassuming the duties herself for the twenty-fourth cycle. Banks was the co-creator of True Beauty, and had her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show, which aired on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy awards for Outstanding Talk Show Informative. She co-hosted the talk show FABLife for two months. In 2017, Banks replaced Nick Cannon as host of America's Got Talent for its 12th season. In 2010, she published a young adult novel titled Modelland, based on her life as a model which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine. Tyra Banks had a four-year relationship with banker John Utendahl (2007-2011) and dated Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during the 2010s. In January 2016 they had a biological son born via surrogacy.

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Grace Jones (1948) is a Jamaican singer, supermodel, and actress. Classic is her album Nightclubbing (1981) and unforgettable are her hits La Vie en Rose, Pull Up to the Bumper and I've Seen That Face Before. She was also memorable as a James Bond villain in A View to a Kill (1985). But foremost, the unusual, androgynous, bold, dark-skinned artist was a style icon for the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Beverly Grace Jones was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, in 1948. Her parents were Marjorie (née Williams) and Reverend Robert W. Jones, a local politician and Apostolic clergyman. Her grandfather (on her mother's side) was a musician who traveled with Nat 'King' Cole. As her parents were working in the United States, Grace and her siblings were raised by her grandparents. Jones had a strict upbringing under the influence of Jamaica's Pentecostal church and went to church three times a week. At 13 she moved to her parents' home in Syracuse, New York. She studied theatre (some sources say Spanish) at Syracuse University. Halfway through college, a drama professor proposed her to work with him in a play he was putting on in Philadelphia, she accepted. At 18, she moved back to New York, and signed on as a model with Wilhelmina Modelling agency. Her androgynous, dark-skinned looks were not successfully received in the USA, and in 1970, she moved to Paris, just like Josephine Baker had done 50 years before her. In Paris, the fashion scene was receptive to Jones' unusual, bold appearance. Yves St. Laurent, Claude Montana, and Kenzo Takada hired her for runway modelling, and she appeared on the covers of Elle, Vogue, and Stern working with Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer. Jones frequented Club Sept, one of Paris's most popular gay clubs of the 1970s and 1980s, and socialised with Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld. She also became one of the faces of New York City's hedonistic Studio 54 disco scene.

Grace Jones' statuesque and flamboyant look was such a hit in the New York City nightclub scene that she was signed by Island Records. They put her in the studio with disco record producer, Tom Moulton. In 1977 the album Portfolio,was released, which featured a seven-minute reinterpretation of Édith Piaf's La Vie en rose and finished with I Need a Man, Jones' first club hit.The artwork to the album was designed by Richard Bernstein, an artist for Interview magazine. In the following years, she made two more disco albums, Fame (1978) and Muse (1979). These two albums failed to break the singer commercially, but Jones amassed a substantial following among gay men with her sexually charged live show, leading to her title at the time of 'Queen of the Gay Discos.' In 1980 Jones transitioned into New Wave music with the album Warm Leatherette, on which she collaborated with the Compass Point All Stars. The album included covers of songs by The Normal (Warm Leatherette), The Pretenders (Private Life), and Roxy Music (Love is the Drug). The 1981 release of Nightclubbing included Jones' covers of songs by Iggy Pop/David Bowie ("Nightclubbing") and Ástor Piazzolla ("I've Seen That Face Before"). Jones herself co-wrote Pull Up to the Bumper and Sting wrote Demolition Man. The strong rhythm of the album was produced by Compass Point All Stars, including Sly and Robbie. The album entered in the Top 5 in four countries, and became Jones' highest-ranking record in the US .She scored Top 40 hits with Pull Up to the Bumper, and I've Seen That Face Before. Another popular album was Slave to the Rhythm (1985), the last of her recordings for Island. In 1983, Jones's One Man Show was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long-Form Music Video. 1986's album Inside Story; with production chores by Chic's Nile Rodgers, spawned one of Jones' last successful singles, I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You).

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Grace Jones appeared in some low-budget films. In the U.S., she appeared in the action film Gordon's War (Ossie Davis, 1973) starring Paul Winfield, and in Italy, she played a club singer in the Poliziottesco (Italian crime film genre) Quelli della Calibro 38/Colt 38 Special Squad (Massimo Dallamano, 1976) starring Marcel Bozzuffi and Carole André. Her first mainstream film role was Zula the Amazonian in the fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer (Richard Fleischer, 1984) alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was followed by her turn as May Day, henchman to villain Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) in the 14th James Bond film A View to a Kill (John Glen, 1985), featuring Roger Moore. With her boyfriend Dolph Lundgren, Jones posed nude for Playboy. In 1986 she played as Katrina, an Egyptian queen vampire in the vampire film Vamp (Richard Wenk, 1986). The following year, Jones appeared in two films, Straight to Hell (Alex Cox, 1989), and Siesta (Mary Lambert, 1989) for which Jones was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress. She also acted in and contributed a song to the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin, 1993) and played in the Science Fiction film Cyber Bandits (Erik Fleming, 1995), starring Martin Kemp of the Band Spandau ballet. A decade later, she appeared as Christoph/Christine, an intersexed circus performer in the horror thriller Wolf Girl (Thom Fitzgerald, 2001) with Tim Curry. As a style icon, Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s. She has been an inspiration for artists including Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Björk, Madonna, and Róisín Murphy. Through her relationship with long-time collaborator Jean-Paul Goude, Jones has one son, Paulo. From Paulo, Jones has one granddaughter. Jones married Atila Altaunbay in 1996.

Sources: Greg Prato (AllMusic), Tony R. Vario (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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