Milla started acting when she was 11 years old. Her first appearance on the 'Silver Screen' was
Two Moon Junction. There are 21 entries on this page.
| Film: | Two Moon Junction |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Character: | Samantha, younger sister of April. |
| Plot: | April (Sherilyn Fenn) is supposed to marry a man her snobby parents like, but then she falls in love with a blue-collar stud named Perry. April must reconcile the expectations of her family and her fiancee with the love she feels for Perry. |
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VHS: Sam Goody ($9.99) DVD: Sam Goody ($21.49) |
| TV Movie: | The Night Train to Kathmandu |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Character: | Lily McLeod |
| Plot: | Milla plays Lily McLeod, the daughter of two American professors in search of an ancient jewel in Kathmandu. Lily and her little brother Andrew befriend Prince Joharv, a magical prince from another world. He needs the jewel to get back to his world. However, there is a greedy villain who wants it strictly for it's monetary value. |
| TV Show: | Paradise |
| Year: | 1988 |
| TV Show: | Married...With Children |
| Episode: | 'Fair Exchange' |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Character: | Yvette, French exchange student |
| Plot: | Al's joins a Foreign Exchange Student program because they will give him $200/month to let a student live with his family (she ends up in the garage). Yvette (Milla) becomes the most popular girl in school and steals all of Kelly's boyfriends. Bud drills holes in the wall so he can watch her dress, and she says something like "It's ok Bud, I don't mind if you peek." |
| TV Show: | Parker Lewis Can't Lose |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Character: | Robin Fecknoids |
| Film: | Return to the Blue Lagoon |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Character: | Lilli |
| Note: | Their was some controversy over her casting in this movie because she was only 15 at the time. |
| Plot: | A young boy named Richard (Brian Krause) and girl (Milla) are stranded together on a tropical island for a number of years and must teach themselves and each other about life, love, and survival. |
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VHS: Sam Goody ($9.99) |
| Film: | Kuffs |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Character: | Maya Carlton, girlfriend |
| Plot: | Milla plays Maya Carlton, George Kuffs' (Christian Slater) girlfriend. The title character addresses the camera throughout the film in a Ferris-Bueller-meets-Alf style. George loses his job and skips town when he finds out that Maya is pregnant. He tries to get a loan from his older brother Brad but Brad is promptly murdered and George is suddenly the owner of Brad's security agency business. Adapted from the Plot description at millaJ.com |
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VHS: Sam Goody ($9.99) |
| Note: |
This movie is going to be on USA on Dec. 27. 11:00am Eastern Thu Dec 27 11:00A USAE- USA Network |
| Film: | Chaplin |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Character: | Mildred Harris, 2nd wife of Charlie Chaplin |
| Plot: | Milla plays Mildred Harris, the second wife of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr.) This film is the biography of the legendary silent film comedian. She's in the film for about 15 minutes, but once she and Chaplin separate she's not seen again. |
| Film: | Dazed and Confused |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Plot: | Blink and you might miss her in Dazed and Confused. Aside from a scene in which Milla sings a couple of lines from The Alien Song (from her 1994 album The Divine Comedy) she is all but non-existent in Richard Linklater's cult classic tale of 1970's high school slackers. This was undoubtedly the low point of Milla's acting career - she was used extensively in the promotion of the film and was promised a much larger role. Discouraged, she took a temporary hiatus from acting. From millaJ.com |
| Film: | The Fifth Element |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Character: | Leeloo |
| Plot: | Milla returned with a bang in her next film. Set in New York City in 2214, it's a futuristic science-fiction movie complete with wild looking villains, funky weapons, a healthy dose of explosions, and the typical Besson humor. Starring opposite Bruce Willis, Milla's portrayal of the "perfect being" Leeloo received high praise from fans and critics. Adapted from millaJ.com |
| Film: | He Got Game |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Character: | Dakota Burns |
| Plot: | Milla plays a prostitute in this film. The movie is about a high school basketball player names Jesus Shuttleworth (Rat Allen). His father is serving a life sentence for killing Jesus' mother. His father is released on parole with the condition that he gets his son signed to the Governor's university to play basketball. |
| Film: | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Character: | Joan of Arc |
| Plot: | The film follows Joan's short but incredible life - her rise from peasanthood to hero as she led the French Army against the invading British in early 15th century France. Joan was made a Saint 500 years later in 1920. |
| Film: | The Million Dollar Hotel |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Character: | Eloise |
| Plot: | The movie starts when a billionaire's son dies in a skid row hotel and a federal agent (Mel Gibson) turns the lives of the miscreant residents upside down to find out if it was suicide or murder. The name of the film is the nickname for the LA flophouse which was featured in the U2 video, Where the Streets Have No Name. The premiere was February 9, 2000 at the 50th Berlin Film Festival. |
| Film: | The Claim (originally Kingdom Come) |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Plot: | It is a female version of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, then epic love story set in California in the 1850s. |
| Film: | Zoolander |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Character: | Katinka |
| Plot: | Based upon a character Ben Stiller created for skits shown during the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards. Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a shallow, self-obsessed male model who has lost his position as the #1 model, being brainwashed by the mysterious dominatrix-like character Katinka (Milla) into assassinating the president of Malaysia. Meanwhile, he also has to deal with nemesis (Wilson), a younger, blonde model who is now the #1 model. |
| Film: | You Stupid Man |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Character: | Katinka |
| Plot: | A man who can't get over his suddenly famous ex-girlfriend agrees to go on a blind date with one of her friends (Milla) who has been helping him get over his ex. Sure enough, after they fall in love the ex's show gets canceled and she wants him back. From the Internet Movie Database |
| Film: | Dummy |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Plot: | An aspiring singer in a dysfunctional household finds her niche in Yiddish music, while her friend tries to make it as a ventriloquist, saddled with a dummy who embodies his inner doubts. From the Internet Movie Database |
| Film: | No Good Deed |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Plot: | Thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson & Stellan Skarsgard in which Milla plays an international bond thief. From the Internet Movie Database |
| Film: | Resident Evil |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Plot: | Based on the popular series of Survival Horror games. Spoiler!!!An underground research lab called "The Hive", which is owned and operated by Umbrella, and monitored by a supercomputer (with A.I.) called the "Red Queen". The T-Virus escapes into the air so the Red Queen kills everyone in the lab. While it does so, it releases a nerve gas into the mansion which is the emergency entrance into the hive. Alice (Milla) is stationed in the mansion to guard the entrance. Unfortunately, one of the side effects of the gas is memory loss. So Alice wakes up and has no memory of her life or what she is doing. Then the team shows up and jumps in through the windows. Since she is working with them (even if she can't remember it), they take her with them into the hive on a train below the mansion. They go into the hive... you'll have to watch it to find out the rest. Even though I put a spoiler warning, some people can't help themselves... ;) |
| Film: | Red America |
| Year: | Not Yet Set |
| Plot: | Don't know yet, but it will have the Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov in it. |
| Film: | American Heroes |
| Year: | Not Yet Set |
| Plot: | Don't know yet. |