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Milena Markovna Kunis (Ukrainian: Мілена Маркoвна Куніс), (born August 14 1983), better known as Mila Kunis, is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show, and for providing the voice for the character of Meg Griffin on the popular animated series Family Guy.
Early life
Kunis was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine), to a Jewish family, with whom she moved to Los Angeles, California, in the United States, when she was seven *. Kunis learned English by watching The Price Is Right; host Bob Barker spoke slowly enough for her to understand. 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.
Career
Kunis became well known after being cast in the television series That '70s Show, in 1998. She lied about her age when auditioning: although required to be 16 years old, she was actually 14. 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. But before this she was 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 has had 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).
Kunis can also be heard as the voice of Meg Griffin in the animated TV show Family Guy. She is also to lend her voice to a character in the upcoming video game Saint's Row.
Personal life
Kunis graduated from Fairfax High School in 2001. She was ranked #54 in Stuff's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002) and then dated actorMacaulay Culkin until 2006. *. She has heterochromia, which means that her two eyes don't match in color: one is blue, and the other is slightly green.
External links
- MilaKunis.co.uk Extensive photo gallery
- Biography from the That '70s Show website
- JVibe interview
- pure-zen.com Fan Site dedicated to Mila Kunis
1983 births | American television actors | American voice actors | Jewish American actors | Living people | Naturalized citizens of the United States | People from Los Angeles | Natives of Kiev | 7th Heaven actors | That '70s Show actors | Ukrainian-Americans | Regular Family Guy cast members
"Mila Kunis"