Still, she’s determined to fulfill her destiny as the Fifth Element. She doesn’t seem to fully understand her purpose, having the mind of a newborn. She hasn’t been alive very long, but so far she has only found real comfort in the company of the gruff cab driver, Korben Dallas.Ĭhallenge… saving humanity from the Great Evil. She is a beautiful specimen, described by scientists as “perfect,” who isn't receptive to romantic advances, unleashing kung-fu fury if touched without her express permission. She can learn languages quite quickly, and by watching documentary footage she comes to understand much of human history, including the great atrocities humanity has committed. Leeloo is totally fresh to the world, but seems to be able to process information at an incredible rate. Leeloo is essentially a weapon, but she might prove to be more than her simple, destructive purpose. Leeloo’s purpose is to interact with the other four elements and destroy the Great Evil. She crashes through the top of his flying cab in what she describes as a “bad badaboom.” Speaking very little English, Leeloo is at the mercy of Dallas, who miraculously manages to help her find Cornelius, a priest who believes that Leeloo is the Fifth Element: the human element needed to destroy the Great Evil, which now threatens the Earth, and all other living beings. Leeloo falls into his cab by chance while escaping the facility where she has been recreated. Living… in the hands of Korben Dallas, a cab driver in the year 2263. In the wake of the Mondoshawan’s destruction, a group of scientists manage to find a human hand, which they are able to clone into the new and confused Leeloo. Unfortunately, while journeying to Earth to gather the five elements to stop the Great Evil, their ship was attacked, resulting in the death of everyone on board. Her original version lived among the Mondoshawan, an extraterrestrial race dedicated to saving earth from a Great Evil that appears once every 5000 years. See, Leeloo wasn’t truly born, she was cloned. Jovovich has her own production company, Creature Entertainment.Grew Up… in seconds. In 2003, she and model Carmen Hawk created the clothing line Jovovich-Hawk. She continues to release demos for other songs on her official website and contributes to film soundtracks. Jovovich released an album, The Divine Comedy, in 1994. Though the films have been critically panned, they have been commercially successful. Jovovich is also well known for playing Alice, the leading character in the Resident Evil film series, adapted from the video game series of the same name. She starred as the heroine and martyr in Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). She and Besson married that year, but soon divorced. She was considered to have a breakthrough with her role in the 1997 French science-fiction film The Fifth Element written and directed by Luc Besson. Jovovich gained attention for her role in the explicit 1991 romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon, as she was then only 15. In 1988, Jovovich had her first acting role in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu, and that year also appeared in her first feature film, Two Moon Junction. Milla during filming of The Fifth Element Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In 1987, she began modeling at the age of 12 when Herb Ritts photographed her for the cover of the Italian magazine Lei. She has appeared in numerous science fiction and action films, leading the music channel VH1 to deem her the "reigning queen of kick-butt" in 2006. Born in Kyiv, Jovovich emigrated with her parents to the United States when she was five. Milla Jovovich (/ˈjoʊvəvɪtʃ/ yoh-və-vitch) is a Ukrainian-born American actress, model, musician, and fashion designer.
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