Milena Markovna Kunis or Mila Kunis as she is known, is an American actress who works in the film and television industries. After starring in several television series and commercials, she came into the limelight playing Jackie Burkhart on the television series That '70s Show (1998–2006).
Mila began her television career in 1994 with small roles in Days of Our Lives and Baywatch, and her movie career in 1996 with the film Santa with Muscles. Her first proper role was in 1995 television movie Piranha, and the same year she followed it with a guest appearance in the serial Hudson Street.
TELEVISION:
From 1996, Mila was featured in a number of television shows, doing cameo roles and guest appearances. She played Chloe in Unhappily Ever After in 1996, and then had a recurring role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, and in 7th Heaven from 1996 to 1997. She also featured in 1997 serial Walker, Texas Ranger, which had starred veteran actor Chuck Norris, and in biographical TV movie Gia about Gia Marie Carangi. In 1998, she was featured in Pensacola: Wings of Gold.
Mila began to be noticed after she featured in That '70s Show, appearing in 200 episodes from 1998 to 2006. She has been and still is the voice of Meg Griffin from American animated sitcom Family Guy. She has also featured in MADtv (2002), Grounded for Life (2004), Punk'd (2005), Robot Chicken (2005-2011), The Cleveland Show (2009), The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2010), Sesame Street (2011), Good Vibes (2011), Two and a Half Men (2014), The Bachelorette (2017), and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2019).
FILM:
Where movies are concerned, Mila starred in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997), Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), Get Over It (2001), American Psycho 2 (2002), Tony n' Tina's Wedding (2004), Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (Voice-2005), After Sex (2007), Moving McAllister (2007), Boot Camp (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Max Payne (2008), Extract (2009), The Book of Eli (2010), Date Night (2010), Black Swan (2010), Friends with Benefits (2011), Ted (2012), and The Color of Time (2012).
In 2013, Mila starred in three movies, namely, Oz the Great and Powerful, Blood Ties, and Third Person. She followed them with The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014), Annie (Cameo-2014), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Hell and Back (Voice-2015), Bad Moms (2016), A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), and Wonder Park (Voice-2019). She will also be seen in Breaking News in Yuba County (2020), and Four Good Days.
Apart from movies and television serials, Mila has also featured in video games and music videos.
PERSONAL LIFE:
Milena Markovna Kunis aka Mila Kunis was born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union to Mark and Elvira, and she has one brother. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California from the USSR with just 250 dollars. In Los Angeles she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School, and when she began her acting career, she briefly attended Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) before shifting to Fairfax High School, from where she graduated in 2001.
Mila is married to actor Ashton Kutcher, her longtime co-star and on-screen boyfriend from That '70s Show, and she has two children with him.