Milla Jovovich played a role.
Milla Jovovich . Jovovich gained attention for her role in the explicit 1991 romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon , as she was then only 15 . 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 . She starred as the heroine and martyr in Besson 's The Messenger : The Story of Joan of Arc ( 1999 ) . In 2002 , Jovovich starred in the science fiction horror film Resident Evil , adapted from the video game series of the same name . She reprised her role in five sequels , all in the apocalyptic fiction action horror genre , made between 2004 and 2016 .