Mila Kunis

Overview

Born
August 14, 1983 · Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Birth name
Milena Markovna Kunis
Nickname
- Goldfish
Height
5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)

Biography

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Trademarks

Has one green eye and one brown eye.
Seductive husky voice.
Long brown hair.

Trivia

Auditioned for the situation comedy That '70s Show (1998) at age 14. Though actors had to be at least 18 to get the role, she truthfully claimed she would be 18 on her birthday, not specifying which birthday, and won the role.
Mila said that she was blind in one eye because of a condition called chronic iritis. She underwent surgery to correct the blindness.
She and Laura Prepon were often filmed sitting down for their scenes on That '70s Show (1998) because Laura, at 5' 10", is six inches taller than Mila, at 5' 4". In other scenes, Mila wore platform shoes to give her four extra inches.
Mila and her family moved from Ukraine to Los Angeles, California when she was age seven. Her father, Mark, is a mechanical engineer. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher. Her brother, Michael, is a biochemist.
She and her ex-boyfriend, actor Macaulay Culkin, were close friends with Michael Jackson and his family for many years until Jackson's death. Culkin is godfather of his children. Kunis attended a private funeral for Jackson on September 3, 2009, with Culkin.

Quotes

Blondes definitely do not have more fun. Trust me.
[on her That '70s Show (1998) character, Jackie Burkhart, switching boyfriends from Michael Kelso to Steven Hyde] I think her relationship with Steven has taught her to be less selfish.
[Denying reports of marriage] I've been engaged, I think I've already been married, And I'm sure I have a child somewhere. I'm waiting to have something else happen. No, I'm not married. And, no, I'm not engaged. And, no, I do not have a child. No one seems to listen. And next week I'll be engaged again. I think, at one point, they were like "Seen shopping in Beverly Hills for engagement rings." We were in Japan working. What is wrong with these people? Half the time you can say they misconstrued facts. But more often than not, they just make stuff up.
Well, I was born and grew up in Russia. I wasn't allowed to be religious. My whole family was in the Holocaust. My great-grandparents passed [away] and not many survived. After the Holocaust in Russia, you were not allowed to be religious. So my parents raised me to know I was Jewish. You know who you are inside. You don't need to tell the whole world. You believe what you believe, and that's what's important. And that's how I was raised. My family was like "You are Jewish in your blood." We can celebrate Yom Kippur and Hannukah in Russia--but not by the book. We do it to our own extent because being in Russia... Bar Mitzvahs weren't held. When I was in school over there, up until I was seven, you would still see anti-Semitic signs. One of my friends who grew up in Russia... she was in second grade... and she came home one day crying. Her mother asked why she was crying and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika. Now this is a country that obviously does not want you. So my parents raised me Jewish as much as they could and they came to America. I love my religion. I think it's a beautiful religion, but I took parts of it that I want for myself. I don't need to go to temple. I will, but I don't need to.
I never dated Wilmer Valderrama. I never dated Danny Masterson. They're like my brothers. That's disgusting. That's wrong.