Who is Mila Kunis?
Mila Kunis is an American actress who rose to prominence with the role of Jackie Burkhart in the American television period sitcom, ‘That ‘70s Show’. She is also well-known for the portrayal of Megan Griffin in the American animated sitcom, ‘Family Guy’. The breakthrough moment of Mila Kunis’ career came in the year 2008 when she played the role of Rachel in the American romantic comedy movie, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and has also won positive reviews from the audience and critics for playing the role of Lily in 2010 American psychological thriller movie, ‘Black Swan’.
Quick Infos | |
---|---|
Full Name | Milena Markovna Kunis |
Date of birth | August 14, 1983 |
Birth Place | Chernivtsi, Ukraine |
Parent(s) | Mark Kunis Elvira Kunis |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse | Ashton Kutcher |
Age | 37 years |
Height | 5 ft 4 in |
Children | 2 |
Nationality | American, Ukrainian |
Net worth | US $75 million |
Another one of her most notable roles includes the role of Amy Mitchell in the 2016 American comedy movie, ‘Bad Moms’ and its 2017 sequel, ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’. Moreover, she can also be seen starring alongside singer Justin Timberlake in the 2011 American romantic comedy movie, ‘Friends with Benefits’ with Emma Stone where she appeared in the role of Jamie Rellis.
Bio, Age, Family, and Young
Mila Kunis’s full name is Milena Markovna Kunis. She was born on 14 August 1983 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, the Soviet Union to her mother, Elvira Kunis who worked as a teacher and a pharmacist and to father, Mark Kunis who worked as a cab driver and a mechanical engineer. Her grandparents were the survivors of the Holocaust, the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and she was born and raised alongside an elder brother, Michael Kunis. Besides this, she is currently 37 years old with the zodiac sign of Leo.
Nationality, Body Figure, Eyes, Height, and Weight
Mila Kunis holds an American as well as a Ukrainian nationality and belongs to Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. She is Jewish and practices Judaism as her religion. Besides this, she stands at a height of 5 feet and 4 inches (1.62m/162cms) tall and weighs around 52kgs (114lbs). She has a slim body figure with a body measurement of 32-25-32 inches respectively. Moreover, she has a pair of beautiful green colored eyes with dark brown colored hair.
Education
Mila Kunis studied in the Rosewood Elementary School and the Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School before studying and graduating from the Fairfax High School in the year 2001. For further studies, she studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) but dropped out of college in order to pursue a career as an actor.
Personal Life, Kids, and Husband
Mila Kunis is married to Ashton Kutcher, an American actor, model, entrepreneur, and a co-star of ‘That ‘70s Show’ since the year 2015. The couple has been blessed with two children, a daughter whose name is Wyatt Isabelle in the year 2014 and a son whose name is Dimitri Portwood Kutcher in the year 2016.
Social: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
Mila Kunis is not active on social media platforms as she stated in an interview that the social media platforms are predominantly becoming negative platforms where hate and false rumors spread like wildfire.
Career
Movies
Mila Kunis gave her debut performance in the entertainment industry in the year 1996 where she played the role of Sarah in the American Christmas comedy movie, ‘Santa with Muscles’ followed by the role of Jill in the 1997 American family science fiction comedy movie, ‘Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves’ and the role of Abbey Tournquist in the 1998 American comedy movie, ‘Krippendorf’s Tribe’.
Following these roles, she went on to appear in movies like ‘Milo’ in the year 1998, ‘Get Over It’ in the year 2001, ‘American Psycho 2’ in the year 2002, ‘Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding’ in the year 2004, ‘Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story’ in the year 2005, ‘After Sex’ and ‘Moving McAllister’ in the year 2007 and ‘Boot Camp’ and ‘Max Payne’ in the year 2008. The breakthrough moment of her career came in the same year when she got the role of Rachel Jansen in the 2008 American romantic comedy movie, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’.
Following the success of this role, she went on to star in movies like ‘Extract’ in the year 2009, ‘The Book of Eli’, ‘Date Night’ and ‘Black Swan’ in the year 2010, ‘Friends with Benefits’ in the year 2011, ‘Ted’ and ‘The Color of Time’ in the year 2012 and ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’, ‘Blood Ties’ and ‘Third Person’ in the year 2013. In the year 2014, Mila Kunis gave her debut as an executive producer when she starred as Sharon Gill and worked in the American comedy-drama movie, ‘The Angriest Man in Brooklyn’ alongside the cameo of Andrea Alvin in the American musical comedy movie, ‘Annie’.
Likewise, she has also played in movies like ‘Jupiter Descending’ and ‘Hell and Back’ in the year 2015, ‘Bad Moms’ in the year 2016, ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ in the year 2018, and ‘Winder Park’ in the year 2019. Her most recent work can be seen in the year 2020 where she played the role of Molly in the American drama movie, ‘Four Good Days’. Furthermore, she is also said to star as Nancy in the upcoming American comedy-drama movie, ‘Breaking News in Yuba County’ in the year 2021.
Television Shows
Mila Kunis gave her debut on television with the role of young Hope Williams in the 1994 American daytime soap opera, ‘Days of Our Lives’ followed by the role of Annie and Bonnie for an episode each of the American action-drama television series, ‘Baywatch’ in the years 1994 and 1995.
Likewise, she has starred for an episode each in series like ‘The John Larroquette Show’ and ‘Hudson Street’ in the year 1995, ‘Unhappily Ever After’ in the year 1996, ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ in the year 1997, ‘Pensacola: Wings of Gold’ in the year 1998, ‘MADtv’ in the year 2002, ‘Punk’d’ in the year 2005, ‘The Cleveland Show’ in the year 2009, ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’ in the year 2010, ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘Good Vibes’ in the year 2011, ‘Two and a Half Men’ in the year 2014, ‘The Bachelorette’ in the year 2017 and ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in the year 2019.
In between these years, she has also appeared in television movies like ‘Piranha’ in the year 1995 where she played the role of Susie Grogan and ‘Gia’ in the year 1998 where she portrayed the role of young Gia Carangi. Moreover, she has also had main roles in series like ‘That ‘70s Show’ where she played the role of Jackie Burkhart from the year 1998 to the year 2006 and ‘Family Guy’ where she played the voice role of Megan Griffin from the year 1999 to the year 2003 and from the year 2005 to the present day.
Her most recent work came in the year 2020 when she appeared as herself for an episode of the American comedy television series, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.
Video Games
Mila Kunis played the voice role of Tanya Winters in the 2006 action-adventure video game, ‘Saints Row’. Likewise, she also lent her voice for the role of Megan Griffin in the video games, ‘Family Guy: Video Game’ in the year 2006, ‘Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse’ in the year 2012, and ‘Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff’ in the year 2014.
Music Videos
Mila Kunis appeared on the music video of Cheap Trick’s ‘In the Street’ in 1999, Vitamin C’s ‘The Itch’ in 2000, Kiss’ ‘Rock and Roll All Nite’ and Aerosmith’s ‘Jaded’ in 2001, The Strokes’ ‘The End Has No End’ in 2003 and Mams Taylor’s ‘LA Girls’ in 2008. Moreover, she has also appeared in the music video of Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s ‘Stuck With U’ in the year 2020.
Achievements and Awards
Mila Kunis won the MTV Movie and TV Awards’ Best Villain award for her work in ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ in the year 2014. Likewise, she has also won the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle’s Best Supporting Actress award, Saturn Awards’ Best Supporting Actress award, Scream Awards’ Best Supporting Actress award, and Venice Film Festival’s Marcelo Mastroianni Best Young Actress award for ‘Black Swan’ in the year 2010.
Net Worth
As of the year 2020, Mila Kunis has an approximate net worth of $75 million.