The daughter of an actress and a physician (currently in prison for laundering money for the Russian mafia), only child Milla moved to sunny southern California from the not-sunny Ukraine at the age of five. Within six years her pre-pubescent mug was adorning the covers of fashion magazines the world over.

Alas, being entirely too young and beautiful wasn't enough for the Russian. A move to the silver screen was definitely in order. Her first attempt at big-screen acting was to fill Brooke Shields' coconuts in the sequel nobody wanted, Return to the Blue Lagoon. A year (and one noticeable growth spurt) later, she strutted her stuff as the girlfriend of pre-jailbait Christian Slater in Kuffs - her underwear clad dance being the high point of that film.

It wasn't until Milla took a minor (but important) role in Richard Linklater's stoner classic Dazed and Confused that folks started to take notice of her acting potential. She landed her breakthrough role as a "perfect being" (not too much of a stretch there) in Luc Besson's kooky sci-fi actioneer The Fifth Element. Director Besson's interest in Milla didn't end at the wrap party - they were married in Las Vegas several months later. Continuing their on- and off-screen partnership, Jovovich took the title role in Besson's next big film, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.

Supermodel, actress, wife of a famous director -- oops, we forgot to mention her record deal with EMI and best-selling CD, The Divine Comedy. And she's 24 years old. What have you done today?