Milla Jovovich

Personal context

Summary

Milla Jovovich is an actor, producer, model, and musician known for The Fifth Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, and the Resident Evil films, where she often plays unconventional or action-oriented women. She has said she wanted to show women could take on roles beyond the femme fatale or a male lead’s girlfriend, and has criticized the limited opportunities for female-led action films. In 2019, she publicly opposed restrictive abortion laws, sharing her own emergency abortion experience and calling for women’s access to safe abortion. She is a longtime amfAR ambassador and supports HIV/AIDS and other charitable organizations; no public statements on DEI or party politics are on record.