Mila Kunis is an American actress. She was born on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine). Her parents are Elvira, a physics teacher, and Mark Kunis, a mechanical engineer. She has an older brother, Michael. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, with $250. “We had to wait for someone to die in order to get the apartment.” Kunis has said of her early life in Los Angeles.
Kunis comes from a Jewish family and has cited antisemitism in the former Soviet Union as one of several reasons for their emigration. She has stated that her parents “raised [her] Jewish as much as they could,” although religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union. On her second day in Los Angeles, she was enrolled at Rosewood Elementary School, not knowing a word of English.
As a child, Kunis was dyslexic. She has said that her mother initially accepted her dyslexia, but later when she became a successful actress, she requested that her mother “do something” about it. In response, her mother took her to a tutor twice a week for three years, but Kunis “hated” the experience. When she was nine years old, her mother enrolled her in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met Susan Curtis, who would become her acting coach and a major influence.
Table of Contents:
1. Early Life
2. Family
3. Education
4. Acting Career
5. Personal Life
6. Charitable Work
7. Films
8. Television
9. Video Games
10. Awards and Nominations
11. Mila Kunis Quotes
1. Early Life
Mila Kunis was born on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine). Her parents are Elvira, a physics teacher, and Mark Kunis, a mechanical engineer. She has an older brother, Michael. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, with $250. “We had to wait for someone to die in order to get the apartment.” Kunis has said of her early life in Los Angeles.
2. Family
Kunis comes from a Jewish family and has cited antisemitism in the former Soviet Union as one of several reasons for their emigration. She has stated that her parents “raised [her] Jewish as much as they could,” although religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union.
3. Education
On her second day in Los Angeles, Kunis was enrolled at Rosewood Elementary School, not knowing a word of English. As a child, Kunis was dyslexic. She has said that her mother initially accepted her dyslexia, but later when she became a successful actress, she requested that her mother “do something” about it. In response, her mother took her to a tutor twice a week for three years, but Kunis “hated” the experience. When she was nine years old, her mother enrolled her in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills Studios, where she met Susan Curtis, who would become her acting coach and a major influence.
4. Acting Career
Kunis’s first film role was in the 1994 made-for-television film Piranha, which was followed by her film debut in the direct-to-video horror film Santa with Muscles (1996). In 1997, Kunis landed the role of Jackie Burkhart on the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show. She was 14 years old when she started filming the show, and her character was written as an older teenager when the series began airing. In 1998, Kunis won the role of Meg Griffin on the animated sitcom Family Guy.
5. Personal Life
Kunis began dating actor Macaulay Culkin in 2002. They lived together at Culkin’s New York City apartment. The relationship ended in early 2010. Kunis married actor Ashton Kutcher on July 4, 2015, in a private ceremony at the home of their mutual friend Guy Oseary in Los Gatos, California. The couple has two children: a daughter born in October 2014, and a son born in November 2016.
6. Charitable Work
Kunis is a committed philanthropist and has worked with various charitable organizations. In 2009, she became a global ambassador for Gemfields, a Zambian emerald mining company. Kunis has also been a spokesperson for the Gemfields Foundation, which works to improve the lives of women and children in emerald-producing communities in Zambia. In 2010, Kunis was named an ambassador for the Ukrainian charity Our Children, which provides financial assistance to families with sick children in Ukraine. Kunis has also worked with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and the Demi and Bruce Moore Foundation.
7. Films
Kunis has appeared in over 30 films. Her first film role was in the 1994 made-for-television film Piranha, which was followed by her film debut in the direct-to-video horror film Santa with Muscles (1996). She has since appeared in such films as Get Over It (2001), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Black Swan (2010), Friends with Benefits (2011), Ted (2012), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and Bad Moms (2016).
8. Television
In 1997, Kunis landed the role of Jackie Burkhart on the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show. She was 14 years old when she started filming the show, and her character was written as an older teenager when the series began airing. The show ran for eight seasons, from 1998 to 2006. Kunis also voiced the character of Meg Griffin on the animated sitcom Family Guy from 1999 to 2020.
9. Video Games
In 2013, Kunis reprised her role as Meg Griffin for the video game Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse. She has also lent her voice to the video games Def Jam: Icon (2007) and James Bond 007: Blood Stone (2010).
10. Awards and Nominations
Kunis has received numerous awards and nominations for her work in film, television, and video games. She won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance in Black Swan (2010) and a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Comedic Movie Actress for her work in Bad Moms (2016). She has also been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, three MTV Movie Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Mila Kunis Quotes
“I showed sideboob. I don’t need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don’t get both.” — Mila Kunis
“I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.” — Mila Kunis
“I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I’ve never even gone camping.” — Mila Kunis
“You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can’t always go by genres, but it’s always fun to challenge yourself.” — Mila Kunis
“An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.” — Mila Kunis
“My nickname when I was young was Teddy, so people would call me Teddy Bear.” — Mila Kunis
“Though she doesn’t remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, “I know, God bless her. She’s an amazing, amazing woman.”” — Mila Kunis
“I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.” — Mila Kunis
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“Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don’t just offer it. Follow through.” — Mila Kunis
“I’ve never dated. I can say this honestly: I don’t know what it’s like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I’m not in one state long enough.” — Mila Kunis
“Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.” — Mila Kunis
“I’ve always been a fan of Kate Winslet. She’s very classy and a sexy little thing, too.” — Mila Kunis
“I don’t even have Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Why would I ever want to be viral when I’m not even on the Internet?” — Mila Kunis
“I make myself laugh all the time. I think I’m really funny. I do.” — Mila Kunis
“I never dated Wilmer Valderrama. I never dated Danny Masterson. They’re like my brothers. That’s disgusting. That’s wrong.” — Mila Kunis
“I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.” — Mila Kunis
“What’s funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.” — Mila Kunis
“What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn’t matter what your size was, what your stature was.” — Mila Kunis
“Five inches of snow in five-inch heels, you can’t look sexy and you can’t look like you know what you’re doing because you’re fall.” — Mila Kunis
“I had such a great time doing commercials and things as a kid. My grandparents were on set with me all the time, and I loved that I got to hang out with them, so I will forever be grateful for that. But I just loved every minute of it.” — Mila Kunis
“My glass of wine and I are besties.” — Mila Kunis
“I’ve always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working because I don’t want to work for the rest of my life – I want to live.” — Mila Kunis
“People criticize a woman for everything – like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don’t wear makeup when I get my nails done.” — Mila Kunis
“I do not play games, but always just say what’s on my mind. Ostentatious modesty – for fools. If a man is afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.” — Mila Kunis
“There might have been guys with enough cajones to send over a drink. If I was hit on today maybe I just don’t know it. I told my friend that I never get hit on and he’s like, “You’re crazy!” But as far as I know, no, I’ve almost never been hit on.” — Mila Kunis
“My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you’re a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.” — Mila Kunis
“If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.” — Mila Kunis
“I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn’t know what I wanted to study.” — Mila Kunis
“I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.” — Mila Kunis
“Always have a backup plan.” — Mila Kunis
“I think it’s important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.” — Mila Kunis
“I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he’s the wrong man.” — Mila Kunis
“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little stickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.” — Mila Kunis
“It’s very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that’s why I keep getting hired.” — Mila Kunis
“People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it’s impossible because it’s a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they’re unattractive.” — Mila Kunis
“My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.” — Mila Kunis
“I didn’t get the Russian Jew part because they didn’t think I looked Russian or Jewish enough – and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish – so I was cast as the racist Mexican.” — Mila Kunis
“I’ve definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don’t understand the schedule, and it’s not that I don’t want to talk to them, it’s that sometimes I am really busy and can’t get back to them.” — Mila Kunis
“I think I have a good sense of humor, but I’m not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me…” — Mila Kunis
“I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I’m uncomfortable and I don’t really know why but it just comes out and it’s come out since I was a child.” — Mila Kunis
“When it’s a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it’s all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.” — Mila Kunis
“Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone’s throat.” — Mila Kunis
“If I’m not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I’m going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.”— Mila Kunis
“I honestly think being single’s great. Being in a relationship’s great. It’s all about the timing.” — Mila Kunis
“That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it’s just bullying.” — Mila Kunis
“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.” — Mila Kunis
“Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people’s criticisms of my film choices.” — Mila Kunis
“I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they’re actors or directors or producers so that I could learn from them.” — Mila Kunis
“I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think it exists.” — Mila Kunis
“I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.” — Mila Kunis
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