Mila Kunis

Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and raised in Los Angeles, she began acting with minor television roles in the early 1990s. She starred as Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show from 1998 to 2006 and has voiced Meg Griffin on Family Guy since 1999.

Kunis's breakout film role was in the 2008 romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She gained critical acclaim for her performance in the psychological thriller Black Swan (2010), receiving nominations for the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her role in the comedy Ted (2012)—her highest-grossing film—she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy.

Kunis's other films include the action films Max Payne (2008) (as Mona Sax) and The Book of Eli (2010), the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits (2011), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) as the Wicked Witch of the West, the comedies Bad Moms (2016) and its sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), and the mystery film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025).

Early life and education

Milena Markovna Kunis was born into a Jewish family on August 14, 1983, in the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. At the time, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. She has stated that a genealogical DNA test described her ethnicity as 96% to 98% Ashkenazi Jewish. Her mother, Elvira, was a physics teacher who ran a pharmacy, and her father, Mark Kunis, was a mechanical engineer who worked as a cab driver after the family emigrated. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. She has an elder brother named Michael.