Background
Galina Loginova was born on 28 October 1950 in Tuapse, located on the Black Sea. Her father was a Soviet Army officer and her mother was a homemaker.
Galina Loginova was born on 28 October 1950 in Tuapse, located on the Black Sea. Her father was a Soviet Army officer and her mother was a homemaker.
After graduating from high school in Dnipropetrovsk (then a city in the Soviet Union, now in the Ukraine) she studied acting in her native Tuapse, then moved to Moscow and attended the prestigious acting school at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (All Soviet State Institute of Cinematography now Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography).
She currently acts in American and Russian movies. Most recently she appeared in the American silent movie Silent Life, alongside Vlad Kozlov and Isabella Rossellini, based on the life of Hollywood icon Rudolph Valentino. She is portraying legendary Hollywood silent movie star Alla Nazimova in a film set for release in 2014.
In 1971, while still a student, she made her film debut in the popular television series "Teni ischezayut v polden" (English: "Shadows Disappear at Noon").
In 1972, Loginova graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography as an actress, from the master-class of V. Belokurov. She worked on stage as well as in film and on television in the Soviet Union.
Her most notable works were roles as Beatrice in Mnogo shuma iz nichego (1973), a film adaptation of Shakespeare"s Much Ado About Nothing, and as Molly in the criminal drama Milliony Ferfaksa (1980). In 1973 she left Moscow and returned to Ukraine on assignment as a staff actress with the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kiev.
There, in a popular Ukrainian restaurant called Libed, she met a Serbian medical doctor, Bogić Jovović, and struck up a romance with him.
She was later interrogated by Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) officers, who threatened to destroy her career and insisted that she must end her relationship with a foreigner. In 1980, Galina Loginova-Jovovich, together with her family, emigrated from the Soviet Union. Foreign a few years she lived with her family in London, England, then moved to Sacramento, and eventually settled in Los Angeles, California.
During the 1980s she also worked as a housekeeper at the home of Hollywood director Brian De Palma.
Eventually, Loginova became her daughter"s agent and was instrumental in building Milla"s successful career. She also continues to act in Russian and American films.