Mila Kunis

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Mila Kunis
Birth name Мілена Маркoвна Куніс
Born August 14, 1983
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Other name(s) Milena Markovna Kunis; Mila Kunis
Notable roles Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show (1998-2006)
Meg Griffin on Family Guy (2000-present)

Milena Markovna Kunis (Мілена Маркoвна Куніс), born August 14, 1983 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), better known as Mila Kunis, is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show, and for performing the voice of the character Meg Griffin on the popular animated series, Family Guy.

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[edit] Early life

Kunis was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to a Jewish family, with whom she moved to Los Angeles, California, in the United States, when she was seven [1]. Kunis learned English by watching The Price Is Right; host Bob Barker spoke slowly enough for her to understand[citation needed]. In Los Angeles, where she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School, Kunis took after-school acting classes and was cast in minor roles in children's programs and television commercials, appearing in a 1994 episode of Days of Our Lives as a young Hope Williams.

[edit] Career

Kunis became well known after being cast in the television series That '70s Show in 1998. During the auditions, all persons auditioning for the roles in the show were required to be at least 18 years of age, so Kunis told the casting staff that she was going to be 18 on her birthday (not specifying which one) at the audition: after receiving the part, she was kept on the role despite having misled the directors as she had been considered the best fit for the character and was thought to have been creative in her way of gaining the audition despite her age; she was 14 at the time of the audition and had turned 15 by the time the show began filming.[citation needed] Kunis has stated many times that she is nothing like Jackie, her character on the show, insisting that she is really more of the cute girl-next-door type with a dash of tomboy thrown in for good measure. Before the program, Kunis had appeared in the 1997 film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves as a minor character (the daughter's friend). Despite this docile description, she has shown a different attitude by her sultry appearance on the cover of the men's magazine Stuff in December of 2005. Maxim magazine named her #47 on its 2006 Hot 100 list.

Kunis' inimitable, instantly recognizable voice has earned her several other notable roles, including starring in the Aerosmith music video "Jaded", The Strokes music video "The End Has No End", as well as several movies, such as Piranha (1995), Santa with Muscles (1996), Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), Gia (1998), Get Over It (2001), American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002), and Tony n' Tina's Wedding (2004). She is starring with Jon Heder in the upcoming film Moving McAllister.

Kunis can also be heard as the voice of Meg Griffin in the animated TV show Family Guy, and of several characters on the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken. She has also acted as the voice of Tanya Winters in the video game Saints Row. She is also filming a movie in Fiji called Straight Edge.

[edit] Personal life

Kunis graduated from Fairfax High School, in West Hollywood, California in 2001.

She was ranked #54 in Stuff's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002). She has heterochromia, which means that her two eyes don't match in color: one is blue, and the other is slightly green. Laura Prepon has referred to her as "a husky."

She began dating actor Macaulay Culkin in 2002 and it is reported that they are planning to be wed.[2].

According to the DVD commentary of the Family Guy movie (during the third part which Kunis was a commentator), Kunis claims that one of the reasons her boyfriend likes her is because of her role on Family Guy; Culkin is a big fan of Family Guy. She goes on to say that it was because of Culkin that she actually sat down and watched the show (having never done so before).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Caroline Kepnes. "SCHMOOZIN' WITH MILA KUNIS", JVibe Magazine, Unknown.
  2. ^ "CULKIN AND KUNIS PLAN A WEDDING", contactmusic.com, January 11, 2006.

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