• Name: Mila Kunis
  • Date of Birth: August 14, 1983
  • Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Kiev, Ukraine)
Mini-bio: A petite actress with olive skin and pixie features, Russian-born Mila Kunis became a breakout teen star on the FOX sitcom That '70s Show, playing spoiled daddy's girl Jackie Burkhardt. The rare 15-ye... read morear-old actress to be cast as a 15-year-old character, Kunis also demonstrated her maturity by mastering accent-free English only a few years after immigrating. Her command of slang and teen vocal mannerisms won her work even when her appearance was not being utilized, as she voiced another all-American teen on FOX's animated envelope-pusher, Family Guy. Milena Markovna Kunis was born on August 14, 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine, then moved with her parents to Los Angeles when she was seven years old. Kunis credits listening to the simple vocabulary of Bob Barker on The Price Is Right with helping her develop a speedy fluency in English. She enrolled in acting classes at the Beverly Hills Studio, where she was discovered performing in a showcase. She quickly began appearing in commercials. Kunis filled out her early resume with such pit stops as Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997), Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), and the infamous WB ratings cellar-dweller Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1996). She also played a younger version of Angelina Jolie in the HBO movie Gia (1998). But it was her casting in Mark Brazill's That '70s Show that earned Kunis notice, as her petulant teen queen soon became a standout, able to range from endearing to grating. Her aggravated whining rung true enough to earn her a voice-over role on Family Guy, taking over for Lacey Chabert as Megan Griffin during the 2000 season. Kunis played a supporting role in the teen comedy Get Over It (2001) and a lead role as a deranged killer in the unlikely sequel American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002) while continuing as a TV regular. After seemingly languishing in a number of middling film projects between 2002 and 2007 Kunis regained prominence in 2008's Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Over the course of the next few years Kunis would not only continue to get attention for her comedic skills in Mike Judge's Extract (2009) and Date Night (2010) with Steve Carell and Tina Fey, but also for more physical roles, such as Mona Sax in the video game-based action film, Max Payne (2008), and along side Denzel Washington in the post apocalyptic The Book of Eli (2010). This range came to the forefront in 2010 with the role of Lily in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. As a sensual ballerina that competes with Natalie Portman's Nina in the film, Kunis also had to enter intensive physical conditioning and ballet training for the part. As advance buzz built around the film it did so in part because of a reported lesbian sex scene between the two characters. Whatever the draw, Black Swan was one of the most acclaimed films of the year, with Kunis receiving a number of accolades for her work, including a Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
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Mila Kunis Short Biography:

Mila Kunis (by her birth name Milena Markovna Kunis), is an american actress born inChernivtsi, Ukraine, USSR (now independent Ukraine).Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher and drug store manager, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer and cab company executive. She has an older brother, Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991, when she was seven years old. Kunis is Jewish and has cited antisemitism in the former Soviet Union as one of several reasons for her family's move to the U.S. She has said that her parents "raised me Jewish as much as they could", though religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union.Mila Kunis has improved her english by watching the tv-show, The Price is Right.
When she was seven years old, her family moved from the collapsed Soviet Union to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where she had an initially rough transition not knowing or understanding the language and the culture. At the age of 9, her father pushed her to follow acting classes at the Beverly Hills Studio, where she met her present manager, Susan Curtis.

FILMOGRAPHY
Following her small screen debut on a 1994 episode of "Days of Our Lives" (NBC, 1965- ), Kunis began landing work on television shows like "The John Larroquette Show" (NBC, 1993-96), "Unhappily Ever After" (The WB, 1995-99) and "Hudson Street" (ABC, 1995-96). Kunis graduated from guest star to recurring roles with "Nick Freno, Licensed Teacher" (The WB, 1996-98) and "7th Heaven" (The WB, 1996-2006), before playing a young version of Angelina Jolie's titular role in "Gia" (HBO, 1998), the critically acclaimed biopic about the life of doomed supermodel Gia Carangi.In a bold move, Kunis went on an audition for a role on the sitcom "That 70s Show" (Fox, 1998-2006) which required actresses be at least 18 years old; lying about her age - she was 14 at the time - Kunis managed to land the career-making role of Jackie Burkhart, a fast-talking, immature rich girl whose superficial advice occasionally turns out to be right. Eventually, producers figured out that she had fibbed about how old she was, but they also realized Kunis was the best actress to play the part, which she did over the course of the next eight years. Though she tired of playing the same character that long, Kunis nonetheless embraced the experience while continuing to branch out into other areas, including animation when she replaced Lacey Chabert in voicing Meg Griffin on Fox's "Family Guy." Though the series was initially cancelled in 2002, its popularity with viewers and performance in DVD sales led to the show's resurrection in May of 2005. Meanwhile, in 2001, Kunis graduated from Fairfax High School during the height of her sitcom's popularity and had a prominent supporting role in the teen comedy "Get Over It" (2001), starring Kirsten Dunst.

Continuing to branch out into other avenues, Kunis starred in the horror sequel "American Psycho II: All American Girl"Rachael ready to kill!!! (2002), playing the sole survivor of the first film's killer, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), who develops an unhealthy obsession with the serial killer mind and eventually becomes one herself. Disappointing to most fans of the original "American Psycho," Kunis' version was roundly panned by critics on its way to a straight-to-DVD release. So bad was the film that even the author of the source material, Bret Easton Ellis, denounced the sequel. In 2002, she began dating former child star, Macaulay Culkin, a relationship that became the subject of tabloid speculation, mainly over the idea of whether or not the two had been married, since they had been an exclusive item for so long. Meanwhile, she maintained a steady course in her acting career, playing the titular lead in "Tony N' Tina's Wedding" (2007), an adaptation of the long-running environmental theater comedy that was filmed three years earlier, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and finally received a limited theatrical release in 2007, only to quietly depart to DVD shelves soon after. Over the years, the raven-haired beauty appeared in several music videos, including Aerosmith's single "Jaded" (2001) and for The Strokes' single "The End Has No End" (2003). Following "That '70s Show" leaving the air in 2006, her film career began to take off, with major roles in movies like "After Sex" (2007) and the decidedly unfunny comedy "Moving McAllister" (2007), which also starred Jon Heder and Rutger Hauer. After starring in the straight-to-DVD thriller "Boot Camp" (2007), Kunis had a suitable role as a love-struck receptionist who falls for a slovenly television composer (Jason Segel) unable to get over his longtime girlfriend (Kristen Bell) in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (2008).


Turning to video game adaptations, she co-starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in "Max Payne" (2008),Mona SAX playing the Russian spy, Mona Sax, who seeks revenge for her sister's murder. She next played a con artist who lands a job at a flavor-extract company in order to scam a recently injured employee (Clifton Collins, Jr.) in "Extract" (2009), starring Jason Bateman and directed by Mike Judge. Following supporting turns in the comic book-turned-action movie "The Book of Eli" (2010) and the winning comedy "Date Night" (2010), Kunis was paired opposite Natalie Portman as rival ballet dancers in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" (2010) a role that brought here numerous award nominees and 3 Win in 2010 and 2011Mila Kunis in Black Swan. While the lion's share of praise fell on Portman for her role as the more innocent ballerina, Kunis earned her share of accolades for her darker turn, as well as Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.



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VITAL STATS
Mila Kunis Information:
Eye color: Has 2 subtly different color eyes: one is green, the other is bluer)
Notable feature(s):
- Has a strong urge to express herself spontaneously and creatively.
- She has an dominant ego, and can be excessively proud, dominant or concerned with herself.
-Mila Kunis is able to sufficiently detach herself from her own self-centered aims and desires to take an active interest in other people
-Kunis is actually quite social and frequently moderates her egocentric tendencies in order to accommodate others' viewpoints.
Education:
-Beverly Hills Studio, Beverly Hills - California
- Fairfax High School, Los Angeles - California
- Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School, Los Angeles - California
Resides in:Los Angeles, California, USA
Religious affiliations:Jewish
Political affiliation:
Personal interests/hobbies: According to an interview with the actress after her release of the film Extract (2009).

Q: What hobbies do you pursue that are much more important than what your acting?

A: Kunis: Life. Like everything.

Q: That’s a hobby?

A: Kunis: I think so, living life. I do view it as that. I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures. That to me is so much more fulfilling.
Charities/Causes:
Other:Terrified of bugs so much that during her May 2004 appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993), she ran offstage when the "bug man" appeared after her interview.

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Facts

  • The photograph of Mila, used in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, depicting her lifting her shirt and exposing herself, is a fake photograph. The director Nick Stoller explained that the image was photoshopped and created on a computer.
  • As a child, Mila suffered from glaucoma and was required to inject steroids into her eyes to treat the condition.
  • Mila Kunis played Seth Green's hair stylist in an episode of Robot Chicken.
  • Kunis's first major movie role was on a straight to DVD movie, "American Psycho 2."
  • For the film Black Swan Mila met with director Darren Aronofsky over Skype to discuss the film and the role. Aronofsky was so impressed with Mila that he hired her for the role of Lily without requiring an audition.
  • Mila Kunis has two different eye colors: one blue, one green.

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