Milena Markovna Kunis was born August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR. In 1991, at the age of 7, she moved from Soviet Ukraine to the United States with her family. She appeared in several television series and commercials, before landing her first significant role at age 14, playing Jackie Burkhart on the television series That ’70s Show. Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy.
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Milena Markovna Kunis was born August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR. In 1991, at the age of 7, she moved from Soviet Ukraine to the United States with her family. She appeared in several television series and commercials, before landing her first significant role at age 14, playing Jackie Burkhart on the television series That ’70s Show. Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy. Kunis’s breakout film role came in 2008, playing Rachel in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She gained further acclaim and accolades for her performance in the psychological thriller Black Swan, for which she received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress, and nominations for the SAG Award and the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress. Her other major films include the action films Max Payne and The Book of Eli, the romantic movie Friends with Benefits, the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful as the Wicked Witch of the West, and the comedies Ted, Bad Moms and its sequel, ABad Moms Christmas. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Her mother tongue and the common language within her family is Russian. She has stated that her parents raised her Jewish as much as they could, although religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union. Her parents had decided to leave the USSR because they saw ‘no future’ there for her and her brother.
She was enrolled by her father in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met Susan Curtis, who would become her manager. On her first audition she landed the role for a Barbie commercial. Her first television roles took place in 1994, first appearing on Days of Our Lives, a few months later doing her first of two appearances on Baywatch. In 1998, she was cast in the secondary role of a Mexican girl in the film Make a Wish, Molly. She had a minor role in Honey, Werunk Ourselves, and later did a role in the Angelina Jolie film Gia Carangi, Gia, the young Gia. At age 10, Kunis auditioned for the role of Russian girl who moves to America in the movie Gia but failed to get the role. At the time, she did not audition for roles that were required to be at least 18 years old; Kunis who was 14 at the time. She briefly attended Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, but when that school proved to be insufficiently flexible about her acting commitments, she transferred to Fairfax High School, from which she graduated in 2001. In 2011, she stated that she was very lucky and the family was ‘not poor’ and that she \”was very lucky\” and theFamily was not poor; they had decided that they saw \”no future\” there for Mila and her father, Mark Kunis, as a mechanical engineer who works as a cab driver. She said in 2011: ‘Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven. ‘
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