Mila Kunis Biography

Mila Kunis was born on August 14th 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine although she was actually born Milena Markovna Kunis. Back then, Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union and was experiencing a tremendous amount of political instability.

Seven years after her birth, Mila moved to the United States in 1990. Mila's parents, Mark and Elvira, hoped that settling in Los Angeles would provide a safer environment for them to raise their children.

In Ukraine, Mila's father had worked as a mechanical engineer while her mother had been a physics teacher. Moving to the U.S. meant that these professions had to be left behind and they were forced to carve out new livings on American soil. Mark is the president of a taxi company and Elvira manages a pharmacy.

Both Mila and her brother had to learn English rapidly when they reached the states, although it was not long before Mila had become capable enough to start acting classes in the Beverly Hills Studio. It was here that entertainment manager Susan Curtis spotted the young talent and offered to take her on. Soon after Mila made her television debut on a Payless ShoeSource advert and an episode of the daytime soap opera, "Days Of Our Lives".

Over the next seven years, Mila appeared in several TV shows and movies, as well as being the face of a Guess? Clothing advertising campaign.

In 1998 Mila got her big break when she was cast in the movie "Gia" and finally became an established entertainment figure on the big screen as well as television. Later that year she equivocated about her age to land a part in "The 70s Show" as the character Jackie Burkhart.

Mila has gone on to act in further feature length films such as "American Psycho 2" and "After Sex". However, she is probably most famous as the voice of Meg Griffin on Fox's animated comedy series, "Family Guy".