Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Ukranian roots of Mila Kunis have gifted her with a foxy figure, while her most noticeable features are her multicolored eyes -- green for the left and blue for the right. Strangely enough, her eyes used to be her weak spot, as she suffered from glaucoma as a child, but steroid injections helped her eyes recover, just enough to be featured by Stuff and Maxim in their respective Sexiest Women and Hot 100 issues. The lucky guy who gets to gaze into those eyes is Macaulay Culkin, who has been her off-screen companion for the last seven years. They take pride in their privacy and shared interest in television and video games, while he apparently keeps her quite happy by cooking dinner for her every night.
Mila Kunis likes to point out that she has very little in common with the characters that she plays. So just for the record, she isn't a self-absorbed cheerleader, a psychotic student, skilled assassin, or a hateful ballerina. In truth, what she's trying to say is that she's a massive geek. World of Warcraft is one of her passions, but don't expect a voice chat date with her if you're playing on the network, because she keeps her screen name and microphone to herself. She's also a faithful Trekkie, who holds the distinguished honor of having tossed William Shatner out a window in American Psycho 2: All-American Girl.
A not-so-white lie about her age got transplanted Ukranian Mila Kunis the role of Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show and earned her two Young Star Awards and one Young Hollywood Award along the way. Since then, she's never looked back, having moved on to successful ventures, like lending her voice to the ever-popular Family Guy, helping Jason Segel with Forgetting Sarah Marshall, or making assassins sexy in Max Payne.
Thanks mostly to her two bankable television roles, Mila Kunis has earned the rare Hollywood luxury of being financially stable enough to be picky about her future projects. While Corey Haim and Lindsay Lohan are off exchanging straight-to-DVD scripts on a lonely Santa Monica street corner, Mila Kunis is on the lookout to play characters who offer new toys (guns) and activities (shoplifting or beating up Mark Wahlberg) that she wouldn't otherwise get to try out every day. She's found it through her latest role in Extract and with her stacked 2010 dance card that includes the dark dance thriller, Black Swan, the offbeat dating comedy, Date Night, and the action drama, The Book of Eli.
Mila Kunis followed the path of the American dream, even though she wasn't initially an American citizen. In 1991, she and her family emigrated to the U.S. from the Ukraine to seek out a higher quality of life and a meaningful education. For Mila Kunis, the first step in her education was learning English. She did this at Hubert How Bancroft Middle School, while also becoming well-versed in American pop culture through television shows like the game show institution, The Price is Right.
In 1992, Mila Kunis joined the Beverly Hills Studios because her father had heard that it was a good organization for children to socialize. This decision opened the door to a professional acting career when a talent manager watched the actress in action and promptly signed her up. From there, Mila Kunis started as a commercial actress and model for companies like Barbie, Payless Shoes and Guess, before getting her first television acting role in a 1994 episode of Days of Our Lives. Additional television guest roles would follow, opposite viral icons David Hasselhoff on Baywatch and Chuck Norris in Walker, Texas Ranger.
In 1998, Mina Kulis's after school acting hobby became a near-full-time career. First, she played the child version of world's first supermodel, Gia Carangi, in Gia, the HBO telefilm that earned Angelina Jolie a Golden Globe Award. She also auditioned for the role of self-absorbed cheerleader Jackie Burkhart on That '70s Show. When the producers informed her that they were seeking an 18 year old and asked her age, she responded that she would be turning 18 "on her birthday," but failed to mention that this birthday was five years away. In spite of her lie, Mila Kunis kept her role on the show as Ashton Kutcher's gal pal, and was an early victim of his pre-Punk'd gags when he changed her car color from black to pink and added an "I Love Ashton" love note for added insult.
Now a beloved member of the FOX prime-time family, Mila Kunis soon landed additional duties from the network. In 2000, she replaced Lacey Chabert as the voice of the dysfunctional human punching bag Meg Griffin on Family Guy, and stayed with the series through its initial cancellation and subsequent resurrection. She also hit the big screen opposite Kirsten Dunst in the Shakespeare-influenced romantic comedy, Get Over It, and starred as the titular psycho in the Christian Bale-less sequel, American Psycho 2: All-American Girl.
Continuing her trend of having good things happen during years that end in "8," Mila Kunis starred in two high profile films in 2008. First, she played a hotel employee who gets the attention of the recently single Jason Segel. Though she didn't have to break up with him while he was naked (Kristen Bell got that gig), she did get to have an amusingly awkward dinner scene with Segal, Bell and Russell Brand that culminated in a hotel room contest with Bell to see who could be louder during sex. Mila Kunis closed the year opposite Mark Wahlberg in Max Payne, where she learned to put together guns while blindfolded and got to beat up the leading man in the usual Russian assassin wardrobe of short shorts and leather.
In 2009, Mila Kunis joined Jason Bateman for the Mike Judge-directed comedy, Extract, in which she played a deceitful temp playing mind games with Bateman's extract factory worker. She also followed Meg Griffin over to The Cleveland Show, a new spin-off of Family Guy. Mila Kunis is currently at work on three films for 2010, including the apocalyptic thriller The Book of Eli with Gary Oldman and Denzel Washington, the comedy Date Night which re-teams her with Mark Wahlberg, and the dark Darren Aronofsky-directed thriller, Black Swan, in which she plays a dancer in a nasty battle with her competitor (Natalie Portman).
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