Celebrity Biographies
Mila Kunis
She seemed like the typical pretty face, very, very pretty, and not much else… But she has left the critics impressed with her performance in Black Swan , alongside Natalie Portman, for which she has not hesitated to give up appearing as a beauty. , and lose weight until staying at 43 kilos. Mila Kunis joins the hard line of great actors like Robert De Niro, capable of great sacrifices to embody great characters.
Born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi (Ukraine), which was then part of the USSR, Milena Markovna Kunis is the daughter of a Jewish couple made up of a physics teacher and an engineer. When she was only 8 years old, her family went in search of the American dream to Los Angeles. “Once there I learned English by watching“ The Right Price ”on television,” she recalls.
Installed in the capital of “show business”, from the age of 9 she combined school with acting classes, at the Beverly Hills Studios center. She soon began appearing in children’s product ads and catalogs. At 12 she made her film debut in Make a Wish Molly .
After various minor roles in titles such as Piranha ’95 , and playing the teenage version of Angelina Jolie ‘s character in Gia , Mila Kunis auditioned to play one of the leads in the series That ‘ 70s Show . Those responsible for the series made it clear that they were looking for a girl over 18 years old, but she was 14, so she resorted to the strategy of telling them that she would reach the required age on her birthday. She never specified which birthday of hers she was alluding to… By the time they found out about her deception, the producers were so taken with her that they decided to give her the role.
Mila Kunis achieved enormous popularity in the United States, thanks to this comedy, in which she played the presumptuous and superficial Jackie, girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher ‘s character . Since she ended in 2006, she has boosted her film career, with her work in titles like Max Payne , where she was Mona Sax, a valuable woman who lent a hand to the protagonist, a guy out for revenge. In Paso de ti she was a Hawaiian, hotel employee, who helped the protagonist ( Jason Segel ) to forget his ex-girlfriend.
She also played a strong-willed woman who teams up with Denzel Washington in the post-apocalyptic The Book of Eli , which was mostly an action movie but dealt with some serious issues like faith. “It would be hypocritical if I said that I don’t pray; I’ve done it when things have gotten tough”, explained the actress then, who was surprised because the film was described by some quarters as Christian propaganda. “I don’t expect people to become religious from watching The Book of Eli , in the same way that they don’t become atheists from watching The Da Vinci Code .” On top of all this, Mila Kunis provides the voice of Meg, the Griffin’s daughter, in the animated series Family Guy .
But his great qualitative leap came from the hand of Darren Aronofsky ( The Fighter ) in Black Swan , where he heads the cast with Natalie Portman . To play a dancer, she did not hesitate to lose eight kilos. “I lost so much weight that she looked like Gollum,” she says. For her work, she has earned a Golden Globe nomination.
She has had a long-time boyfriend of former wunderkind Macaulay Culkin , though they both love being home alone. “We are together, and there is nothing else that should interest the press. We don’t go out in public, we stay at home, we fight to maintain our privacy, to be able to share a relationship in which we enjoy our company”, explains the actress.