| Mila Kunis  AKA Milena Markovna Kunis
Born: 14-Aug-1983
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jackie on That 70's Show Mila Kunis was born and spent her earliest years in Kiev. As the Soviet Union began descending into chaos, her family emigrated to Los Angeles, and 7-year-old Kunis learned English and capitalism from watching The Price is Right, where, she says, Bob Barker has excellent diction. In grade school she nagged her parents for permission to take acting classes, and the lessons started after school when she was nine. She first appeared on TV commercials as a girl delighted with her new Barbie doll and Payless shoes, and at 11 she landed a small part on a single episode of the soap opera Days of Our Lives. She had a recurring role on early episodes of 7th Heaven, and was briefly seen in the 1998 Richard Dreyfuss comedy Krippendorf's Tribe.
Studios prefer to avoid all the rules and regulations that come into play when hiring underage actors, so the casting call for That '70s Show specifically said that performers had to be 18. "It's a lying business", she has said. "If they want someone Spanish, you tell them you're Spanish. They wanted someone 18..." so she simply lied about her age. The show's producers were impressed by her reading as the spoiled and self-obsessed Jackie Burkhart, and decided to hire her despite the deception. She was 14 when the pilot episode was filmed, and the show ran eight seasons and made her famous.
She replaced Lacey Chabert as the voice of the bespectacled daughter Meg Griffin on Family Guy beginning with that cartoon's second season in 2000. She also voices most of the female characters on Seth Green's Robot Chicken.
She has had less success on the big screen, where her best reviews came as Kirsten Dunst's best friend in the teen comedy Get Over It. In less memorable movies, she played New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre's bride in Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding, the femme fatale in American Psycho II with William Shatner, a prostitute in Tom 51 with Jason Mewes, and Taryn Manning's lesbian lover in After Sex.
Kunis has Heterochromia iridis, which sounds scary but merely means the irises of her eyes are of different colors. One is green, the other blue, but it is rarely noticeable even in close-ups. Other celebrities with Heterochromia iridis include Dan Aykroyd, Jane Seymour, and the late Gracie Allen. Father: Mark Kunis (mechanical engineer)
Mother: Elvira Kunis (physics teacher)
Brother: Mike Kunis (biochemist)
Boyfriend: Chris Masterson (actor, dated in late 1990s)
Boyfriend: Macaulay Culkin (actor, dating since 2001)
High School: Fairfax High School, Los Angeles, CA (2001)
Risk Factors: Heterochromia
TELEVISION
That '70s Show Jackie Burkhardt (1998-)
Family Guy Meg Griffin (2000-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (10-Mar-2008)
Moving McAllister (18-May-2007)
After Sex (14-Feb-2007)
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (23-Jul-2005) [VOICE]
American Psycho II: All American Girl (22-Apr-2002)
Get Over It (9-Mar-2001)
Krippendorf's Tribe (27-Feb-1998)
Gia (31-Jan-1998)
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (18-Mar-1997)
Santa with Muscles (8-Nov-1996)
Piranha (1-Oct-1995)
Official Website:
http://www.milakunis.com/
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