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The Truth About Mila Kunis Revealed

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An actress who spent decades convincing Hollywood — and voters — that she was exactly who she said she was.

Mila Kunis built a career on a lie she told when she was fourteen, and it turned out to be the best career move she ever made. From a Soviet apartment in Chernivtsi to a Fox soundstage in Los Angeles, her path to fame ran through fibbed casting-call paperwork, a cartoon recast, and a music video shoot with Aerosmith long before critics started taking her seriously. Nicki Swift’s video “The Truth About Mila Kunis Revealed” traces that path in detail, and there’s more texture to it than the tabloid version most people know.

• Born Milena Markovna Kunis in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, in 1983, she immigrated to Los Angeles with her family in 1991 at age seven, arriving speaking only Russian.
• She lied about her age to land the role of Jackie Burkhart on “That ’70s Show” in 1998, then replaced Lacey Chabert as the voice of Meg Griffin on “Family Guy” the following year, earning an Annie Award nomination.
• After early credits like Aerosmith’s “Jaded” music video and “American Psycho 2,” she broke through with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Max Payne” in 2008, then earned a Golden Globe nomination opposite Natalie Portman in “Black Swan” (2010).

A Seven-Year-Old Who Didn’t Speak the Language

Kunis’s family left Chernivtsi for Los Angeles in 1991 when she was seven, part of a Jewish family seeking opportunity in the United States. She arrived knowing only Russian, and the culture shock hit immediately — no English, no familiar streets, no context for the version of American life she landed in.

“blind and deaf”

That’s how Kunis has described those early months of adjustment, a phrase she’s used to sum up what it felt like trying to function in a country and language she didn’t understand at seven years old. Her parents enrolled her in acting classes not long after, and commercials and small television parts followed before anything resembling a career took shape.

Lying Her Way Into Point Place

Kunis was fourteen when she auditioned for “That ’70s Show” in 1998, and she got the part of Jackie Burkhart by telling casting she was older than she actually was. The gamble paid off — the show became a launching pad not just for her but for a cast that includes Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace, and Danny Masterson, whose careers and lives have been picked apart in the years since, as detailed in how the cast has transformed and in the show’s more tragic chapters.

Recast on Family Guy

In 1999, while still working steadily on “That ’70s Show,” Kunis took over the voice of Meg Griffin on Fox’s “Family Guy,” stepping in for original voice actress Lacey Chabert. The role stuck for the long haul and earned Kunis an Annie Award nomination, cementing her as a working actress in two very different mediums at once — live-action sitcom by day, animated sketch comedy by voiceover booth on the side.

Music Videos, Direct-to-Video, and the Slow Build

Long before studio leads, Kunis picked up credits that rarely make her highlight reel. She appeared in Aerosmith’s 2001 music video for “Jaded,” and the following year she turned up in the direct-to-video sequel “American Psycho 2.” Neither project moved the needle commercially, but they filled the gap between teen sitcom fame and the film career that came next.

Black Swan and the Studio Breakthrough

Kunis’s transition to major films started with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” in 2008, where she played Rachel Jansen, and the action vehicle “Max Payne” the same year. The real turn came in 2010, when Darren Aronofsky cast her opposite Natalie Portman in “Black Swan,” a performance that earned her a Golden Globe nomination and reset how the industry viewed her range. From there she headlined “Friends with Benefits” (2011), “Ted” (2012), and the “Bad Moms” franchise across 2016 and 2017, turning into one of the more reliable box office draws of the decade.

Culkin, Kutcher, and Family Life

Off screen, Kunis was in a relationship with Macaulay Culkin for eight years, from 2002 to 2010. She eventually married her former “That ’70s Show” co-star Ashton Kutcher in 2015, and the two share two children, Wyatt and Dimitri.

What started as a fourteen-year-old fudging her birth year on a casting sheet turned into a marriage to the guy who played her on-screen boyfriend on that same show almost two decades later — Wyatt and Dimitri are proof the Point Place storyline had a lot more mileage left in it than anyone writing “That ’70s Show” scripts in 1998 could have guessed.