Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis( born August 14, 1983)^[2] is an American actress and voice artist.

In 1991, at the age of seven, she moved from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles with her family. After being enrolled in acting classes as an after-school activity, she was soon discovered by an agent. She appeared in several television series and commercials, before acquiring her first significant role prior to her 15th birthday, playing Jackie Burkhart on the television series That '70s Show. A year later, she was cast as the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy.

Her breakout film role came in 2008,^[3][4] playing Rachel Jansen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Subsequent film roles included Mona Sax in Max Payne, Solara inThe Book of Eli, Jamie in Friends with Benefits, Lori in the comedy Ted, and Theodora in Oz the Great and Powerful. Her performance as Lily in Black Swangained her worldwide accolades, including receiving the Premio Marcello Mastroianni for Best Young Actor or Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Kunis was born in Chernivtsi, in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine).^[5] Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher who runs a pharmacy, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer who works as a cab driver.^[6] Kunis has a brother, Michael,^[7] who is six years older.^[8] She stated in 2011 that her parents had "amazing jobs", and that the family was "very lucky" and "not poor"; they had decided to leave the USSR because they saw "no future" there for Kunis and her brother.^[5] In 1991, when she was seven years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California with $250. "That was all we were allowed to take with us. My parents had given up good jobs and degrees, which were not transferable. We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by Friday morning my brother and I were at school in LA."^[5]

At age nine, Kunis was enrolled by her father in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met Susan Curtis, who would become her manager.^[16][17] On her first audition she landed the role for a Barbie commercial.^[18] Shortly after, she did a commercial for the Lisa Frank product line.^[19][20] Her first television roles took place in 1994, first appearing on Days of Our Lives,^[21][22] and a few months later doing her first of two appearances on Baywatch.^[23] She had a minor role on 7th Heaven^[14] and supporting roles in Santa with Muscles, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, and the Angelina Jolie filmGia, as the young Gia Carangi.^[7]

At the age of 10, Kunis auditioned for but failed to get the role of a Russian Jewish girl who moves to America in the film Make a Wish, Molly.^[24] Instead, she was cast in the secondary role of a Mexican girl.^[25]

In 1998, Kunis was cast as Jackie Burkhart in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. All who auditioned were required to be at least 18 years old; Kunis, who was 14 at the time, told the casting directors she would be 18 but did not say when. Though they eventually figured it out, the producers still thought Kunis was the best fit for the role.^[9][17] That '70s Show ran for eight seasons.^[26] She won two consecutive Young Star Awards as Best Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series in 1999 and 2000 for her performances.^[27]

In 1999, Kunis replaced Lacey Chabert in the role of Meg Griffin on the animated sitcom Family Guy,^[28] created by Seth MacFarlane for Fox. Kunis won the role after auditions and a slight rewrite of the character, in part due to her performance on That '70s Show.^[29] MacFarlane called Kunis back after her first audition, instructing her to speak slower, and then told her to come back another time and enunciate more. Upon claiming that she had mastered these speech particulars, MacFarlane hired her.^[29] MacFarlane added: "What Mila Kunis brought to it was in a lot of ways, I thought, almost more right for the character. I say that Lacey did a phenomenal job, but there was something about Mila – something very natural about Mila. She was 15 when she started, so you were listening to a 15-year-old. Often times with animation they'll have adult actors doing the voices of teenagers and they always sound like Saturday morning voices. They sound often times very forced. She had a very natural quality to Meg that really made what we did with that character kind of really work."^[30] Kunis was nominated for an Annie Award in the category of Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production in 2007.^[31] She also voiced Meg in the Family Guy Video Game!. Kunis described her character as "the scapegoat."^[32]

 

She has identified herself in interviews as a fan of the online computer game World of Warcraft and has received attention from the game's fan community as a result. She has not released what server she is in but says she is with her close friends in the Alliance.^{[141][broken citation]} In a 2008 interview with Jimmy Kimmel, she stated she had not used voice chat in the game since another player recognized her voice. Although Kunis has described herself as a "computer nerd", she does not have a Myspace, Facebook or Twitter account.^[142] Kunis discussed her desire for privacy: "Why would I want to share my life with the world when it's being shared already, without my consent? The only problem with not having an account is that there are fake accounts, pretending to quote me. But what am I going to tweet about?"^[143]

 

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Piranha	Susie Grogan	Direct-to-video
1996	Santa with Muscles	Sarah
1997	Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves	Jill	Direct-to-video
1998	Krippendorf's Tribe	Abbey Tournquist
1998	Gia	Gia (at age 11)	TV film
2001	Get Over It	Basin
2002	American Psycho 2	Rachael	Direct-to-video
2004	Tony n' Tina's Wedding	Tina
2005	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Meg Griffin (voice)	Direct-to-video
2007	After Sex	Nikki	Direct-to-video
2007	Moving McAllister	Michelle
2008	Boot Camp	Sophie
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Rachel Jansen
2008	Max Payne	Mona Sax
2009	Extract	Cindy
2010	The Book of Eli	Solara
2010	Date Night	Whippit
2010	Black Swan	Lily
2011	Friends with Benefits	Jamie Rellis
2012	Ted	Lori Collins
2012	Tar	Catherine
2013	Oz the Great and Powerful	Theodora
2013	Blood Ties	Natalie
2013	Third Person	Julia	Premiered on September 9 at TIFF
2014	Jupiter Ascending	Jupiter Jones	Post-production
2014	The Angriest Man in Brooklyn	Sharon Gill	Post-production
2014	Hell & Back	Deema (voice)	Post-production

Television

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Days of our Lives	Hope (as young girl)	Flashback
1994–1995	Baywatch	Annie, Bonnie	2 episodes
1995	The John Larroquette Show	Lucy	Episode: "The Defiant One"
1995	Hudson Street	Devon	Episode: "Here's Just Looking at You, Kid"
1996	Unhappily Ever After	Chloe	Episode: "In the Stars"
1996–1997	Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher	Anna-Maria Del Bono	5 episodes
1996–1997	7th Heaven	Ashley	4 episodes
1997	Walker, Texas Ranger	Pepper	Episode: "Last Hope"
1998	Pensacola: Wings of Gold	Jessie Kerwood	Episode: "Company Town"
1998–2006	That '70s Show	Jackie Burkhart	201 episodes
2000–2003, 2005–present	Family Guy	Meg Griffin (voice)	Main cast
2000	Get Real	Taylor Vaughn	2 unaired episodes
2002	MADtv	Daisy	Episode: "8.7"
2004	Grounded for Life	Lana	2 episodes
2005–2009, 2011	Robot Chicken	Various voices	15 episodes
2005	Punk'd	Herself	Episode: "5.6"[1]
2009	The Cleveland Show	Meg Griffin (voice)	Episode: "Pilot"
2011	Sesame Street	Herself	Episode: "The Good Bird's Club"[2]
2011	Night of the Hurricane	Meg Griffin (voice)	Television special
2011	Good Vibes	Herself (voice)	Episode: "Red Tuxedo"

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
1999	"In the Street"	Cheap Trick
2000	"The Itch"	Vitamin C
2001	"Rock and Roll All Nite"	KISS
2001	"Jaded"	Aerosmith
2003	"The End Has No End"	The Strokes
2008	"LA Girls"	Mams Taylor featuring Joel Madden

Video games

Year	Title	Voice
2006	Saints Row	Tanya Winters
2006	Family Guy Video Game!	Meg Griffin
2012	Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse	Meg Griffin