Clame to Fame: as Jackie Beulah Burkhardt on TV Series That 70s Show (1998)
Bio
Milena Markovna Kunis(Russian: Милена Маркοвна Кунис, Ukrainian: Мілена Марківна Куніс; born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for playing Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show and providing the voice of Meg Griffin on the popular animated series Family Guy.
Kunis was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), the daughter of Elvira, a drugstore manager and physics teacher, and Mark Kunis, a cab company executive and mechanical engineer. Her family is Jewish and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991. Kunis learned English by watching The Price Is Right; host Bob Barker spoke slowly enough for her to understand.In Long Beach, 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.
Kunis became well known after being cast in the television series That '70s Show in 1998. During the auditions, all people auditioning for the roles in the show were required to be at least 18 years of age, so Kunis told the casting staff at the audition that she was going to be 18: after receiving the part, she was kept on the role despite having misled the directors as she had been considered the best fit for the character and was thought to have been creative in her way of gaining the audition despite her age; she was 14 at the time of the audition and had turned 15 by the time the show began filming executive producer said "you said you were going to be 18" she said "i will be 18...".Kunis has stated many times that she is nothing like Jackie, her character on the show. Instead, she says that she is more of the cute girl-next-door type with a dash of tomboy. Before the program, Kunis had appeared in the 1997 film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves as a minor character (the daughter's friend), and in the Angelina Jolie film Gia, as Gia's younger self. 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.
Kunis has also had roles 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). She starred with Jon Heder in the 2007 film Moving McAllister.
Kunis is the voice of Meg Griffin in the animated TV show Family Guy for which she has received a 2007 Annie Award-nomination, and of several characters on the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken. She has acted as the voice of Tanya Winters in the video game Saints Row. She is filming a movie in Fiji called Boot Camp.She guest starred on Grounded for Life as Brad's ex-girlfriend from space camp.
She will be in the upcoming movies Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Max Payne. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is from the makers of such films as The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, among others, the film will also star Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. Max Payne will also star Mark Wahlberg and Ludacris.
Filmography
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Max Payne (2008)
After Sex (2007)
Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (2007)
Moving McAllister (2007)
Tony N' Tina's Wedding (2007)
Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
American Psycho 2 (2002)
American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)
Get Over It (2001)
Gia (1998)
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
Milo (1997)
Santa With Muscles (1996)
Straight Edge
Tom 51
News and Triva
Mila and her family moved from Ukraine to LA when she was 7.
Best Friend: Maria Osadchy, an Aries whom she met in 2nd grade. Maria is also from Russia & helped Mila learn English.
Religion: Jewish (has had no formal education)
Inspiration: her parents, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks, Lucille Ball
Ambitions: create a bakery/diner, get a PhD and an Oscar
