Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (Ukrainian : Мілена Марківна Куніс, Russian : Милена Маркοвна Кунис; born on 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 animated series Family Guy.
She is also well-recognized for some of her roles in film, such as Rachel Jansen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and as Mona Sax in Max Payne.
Kunis was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Jewish family. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher and drug store manager, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer and taxi driver. She also has an older brother. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991. She says that her English improved from watching The Price Is Right. In Los Angeles, she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School.
She was mostly taught by an on-set tutor for her high school years while taping That '70s Show. When not on the set, she attended Fairfax Senior High School. She briefly attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
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, catalog and TV commercials for children's products like Lisa Frank products, Mattel's Barbie Doll and Payless Shoes. She also modeled for a 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' 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 Carangi's younger self. She also had a minor role on 7th Heaven as Lucy's nemesis.
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