Milla Jovovich played a role.
Milla Jovovich . 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 . 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 ) .