Galina Aleksandrovna Loginova (; born 28 October 1950) is a Russian-American actress. She was famous in the

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for her roles in movies, and then gained additional popularity for being the agent for her daughter, actress and model

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. She currently acts in American and Russian movies. She appeared in the American

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''Silent Life'' (2014), portraying legendary

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silent movie star

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alongside Vlad Kozlov and

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, based on the life of Hollywood icon

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Life and career

Galina Aleksandrovna Loginova was born on 28 October 1950 in

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, located on the

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, to a Russian family from Tula. Her father was a

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officer and her mother was a homemaker. Her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother in Ukraine. After graduating from high school in

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(then a city in the

, now in Ukraine) she studied acting in her native Tuapse, then moved to

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and attended the prestigious acting school at VGIK (All Soviet State Institute of Cinematography, now

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). In 1971, while still a student, she made her film debut in the popular TV series ''Teni ischezayut v polden'' (English: ''Shadows Disappear at Noon''). In 1972, she graduated from VGIK as an actress, from the master-class of

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. She worked on stage as well as in film and on television in the Soviet Union. Her most notable roles were roles as

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in ''

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'' (1973), a film adaptation of

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's play of the same name, and as Molly in the criminal drama ''

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'' (1980), based on Alan Winnington's novel of the same name. In 1973, she left Moscow and returned to Ukraine on assignment as a staff actress with the Dovzhenko Film Studio in

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. There, in a popular Ukrainian restaurant called Libed (Swan), she met a Serbian medical doctor, Bogdan Jovović, and struck up a romance with him. She was later interrogated by

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officers, who insisted that she must end her relationship with a foreigner. However, Loginova and Jovović were married, and on 17 December 1975, she gave birth to their daughter,

, in Kiev. In 1980, Galina Loginova-Jovovich, together with her family, emigrated from the Soviet Union. The Soviet authorities immediately banned all films featuring her for a period of six years, so that she could not earn any royalties from her works made in the Soviet Union. For a few years she lived with her family in

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, England, then moved to

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, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. There she raised her daughter, Milla. During the 1980s, she also worked as a housekeeper at the home of

director

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. Eventually, Loginova became her daughter's agent and was instrumental in building Milla's successful career. She holds Russian and American citizenship and also continues to act in Russian and American films.

Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jovovich, Galina 1950 births People from Tuapse Living people Soviet film actresses Russian film actresses Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Soviet emigrants to the United States