Mila Kunis
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| Mila Kunis | |
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| Born | Milena Markovna Kunis August 14, 1983 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
| Domestic partner(s) | Macaulay Culkin (2002-present) |
Milena Markovna Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her television roles, playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show and providing the voice of Meg Griffin on the popular animated series Family Guy.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Kunis was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Elvira, a physics teacher, and Mark Kunis, a mechanical engineer.[1] She also has an older brother. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991.[2][1] She says that her English improved from watching The Price Is Right. The then host Bob Barker spoke slowly enough for her to understand.[citation needed][3] In Los Angeles, she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School. She was mostly taught by an on set tutor for her highschool years on the set of That 70s Show, when not on the set she attended Fairfax Senior Highschool. She graduated highschool in 2001.
[edit] Career
At age nine Kunis took acting classes after-school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met her first and current manager Susan Curtis. She began appearing in print-ads, catalogue and TV commercials for childrens products like Lisa Frank products, Mattel's Barbie Doll and Payless Shoes. She also modelled for a Guess?, Girls Clothing Campaign. Her first TV role was as the young Hope Williams on an episode of the popular soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Previous to Kunis's breakthrough role on That 70s Show, Kunis had appeared in such films as Santa with Muscles, the 1997 film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves as a minor character (the daughter's friend) and in the Angelina Jolie film Gia, as Gia's younger self. She also had a minor role on 7th Heaven as Lucy's nemesis.
Kunis became well known after being cast in the television series That '70s Show in 1998. During the auditions, all people auditioning for the roles in the show were required to be at least 18 years of age, so Kunis told the casting staff at the audition that she was going to be 18 "on her birthday" not specifying to which birthday she was referring. 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; when the executive producer said, "you said you were going to be 18", she responded with "I will be 18...".[4] Kunis has stated many times that she is nothing like Jackie, her character on the show. Instead, she says that she is more of the cute girl-next-door type with a dash of tomboy. She has been nominated for a Teen Choice Award for playing Jackie seven times but failed to ever win.
Kunis is the voice of Meg Griffin in the animated TV show Family Guy for which she has received a 2007 Annie Award-nomination, and of several characters on the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken. She has acted as the voice of Tanya in the video game Saints Row. She guest starred on Grounded for Life as Brad's ex-girlfriend from space camp.
Kunis has appeared in music videos like Aerosmith's music video "Jaded", Vitamin C's music video "The Itch", The Strokes music video "The End Has No End" and Mam Taylor feat. Joel Madden's music video "LA Girls", which also starred Carmen Electra.
Kunis has modelled for such mens magazines as Stuff and Maxim.
Kunis has had several large film roles which she obtained during or after That 70s Show such as the teen film Get Over It with Kirsten Dunst, American Psycho II: All American Girl with William Shatner, After Sex, Boot Camp and Moving McAllister with Jon Heder.
Kunis's most recent role was as Rachel Jansen in the 2008 movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall which also starred Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. She will star alongside Mark Walberg and Ludacris in the upcoming 2008 movie Max Payne. Max Payne is based on the popular video game of the same name. She will be portraying character Mona Sax.
[edit] Personal life
Kunis was ranked #54 in Stuff's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002); Maxim named her #47 on its 2006 Hot 100 list.[5] This year, 2008, Mila was ranked #81 on the Maxim Hot 100 list.
She has been involved with actor Macaulay Culkin for nearly six years. According to the DVD commentary of the Family Guy movie (during the third part in which Kunis was a commentator), Kunis claims that one of the reasons her boyfriend likes her is because of her role on Family Guy; he is a big fan of the show. 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). The couple landed in news headlines in 2006 after their vacation in Israel was interrupted by the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon War, and they ended up quickly returning to the U.S.
She is heterochromatic, which means her two eyes are different in color. One is blue while the other is hazel (green with a tint of brown). This is a result of injections to treat glaucoma, which she has to inject into her eye.
Kunis who is a practicing Jew, has spoken several times publicly about her religion and prejudice against Jewish people in her native Ukraine and other European countries such as Russia. Several of her family members were killed in the Holocaust.
Kunis is afraid of insects which caused her to run off stage at a 2004 taping of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, when the "bug man" appeared after her interview.
Her favorite movie is Dirty Dancing and her favorite TV show is 8 Simple Rules.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films and video games
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 1995 | Make a Wish, Molly | Melinda |
| 1995 | Piranha | Susie Grogan |
| 1996 | Santa with Muscles | Sarah |
| 1997 | Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves | Jill |
| 1998 | Gia | Gia at age 11 |
| 1998 | Krippendorf's Tribe | Abbey Tournquist |
| 1998 | Milo | Martice |
| 2001 | Get Over It | Basin |
| 2002 | American Psycho II: All American Girl | Rachael |
| 2004 | Tony n' Tina's Wedding | Tina |
| 2005 | Tom 51 | unknown |
| 2005 | Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | Meg Griffin |
| 2006 | Saints Row (VG) | Tanya |
| 2006 | Family Guy Video Game! (VG) | Meg Griffin |
| 2007 | After Sex | Nikki |
| 2007 | Boot Camp | Sophie |
| 2007 | Moving McAllister | Michelle |
| 2008 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Rachel Jansen |
| 2008 | Max Payne | Mona Sax |
[edit] Television
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 1994 | Days of Our Lives | a young Hope Williams |
| 1995 | The John Larroquette Show | Lucy |
| 1995 | Hudson Street | Devon |
| 1994-1995 | Baywatch | Anne and Bonnie |
| 1996 | Unhapppily Ever After | Chloe |
| 1997 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Pepper |
| 1996-1997 | Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher | Anna-Maria Del Bono |
| 1996-1997 | 7th Heaven | Ashley |
| 1998 | Pensacola: Wings of Gold | Jessie Kerwood |
| 2002 | MadTV | Daisy |
| 2002 | Get Real | Taylor Vaughn |
| 2004 | Grounded for Life | Lana |
| 1998-2006 | That '70s Show | Jackie Burkhart |
| 2005-2007 | Robot Chicken | various characters |
| 2000-present | Family Guy | Meg Griffin |
[edit] Music videos
| Year | Title | Artist |
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| 2001 | "Jaded" | Aerosmith |
| 2001 | "The Itch" | Vitamin C |
| 2003 | "The End Has No End" | The Strokes |
| 2008 | "LA Girls" | Mams Taylor feat. Joel Madden |
[edit] Awards and nominations
- 1999: Young Artist Award-Nominated
- 1999: YoungStar Award-Won
- 2000: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2000: YoungStar Award-Won
- 2001: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2001: Young Artist Award-Nominated
- 2002: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2002: Young Hollywood Award-Won
- 2002: Stuffs "102 Sexiest Women in the World"-#54
- 2003: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2004: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2005: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2006: Teen Choice Award-Nominated
- 2006: Maxims "Hot 100 List"-#47
- 2007: Annie Award-Nominated
- 2008: Maxims "Hot 100 List"-#81
[edit] References
- ^ a b http://www.filmreference.com/film/61/Mila-Kunis.html
- ^ Caroline Kepnes. "SCHMOOZIN' WITH MILA KUNIS", JVibe Magazine, Unknown.
- ^ Biography for Mila Kunis. Internet Movie Database, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-03-16.
- ^ Imdb.
- ^ Mila Kunis of 2006 Hot 100 on Maxim.com
[edit] External links
- Mila Kunis at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography from the That '70s Show website
- Mila Kunis at Complex Magazine
- Mila Kunis at the Maxim Hot 100
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Kunis, Mila Markovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Куніс, Мілена Марківна (Ukrainian) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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