She later recalled: 'I blocked out second grade completely. On her second day in Los Angeles, Kunis was enrolled at Rosewood Elementary School, not knowing a word of English. She has stated that her parents 'raised Jewish as much as they could', although religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union. Kunis comes from a Jewish family and has cited antisemitism in the Soviet Union as one of several reasons for her family's move to the United States. We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by Friday morning my brother and I were at school in L.A.' My parents had given up good jobs and degrees, which were not transferable. 'That was all we were allowed to take with us. In 1991, when she was 7 years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, with US$250.

She stated in 2011 that her parents had 'amazing jobs', and that she 'was very lucky' and the family was 'not poor' they had decided to leave the Soviet Union because they saw 'no future' there for Mila and her brother. Children were not taught Ukrainian in school until they were in second grade which was the time she left to come to the United States. While participating in Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend Kunis confirmed she does not speak Ukrainian, stating Russian was the main language at the time she was there. Her mother tongue and the common language within her family is Russian. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Although Kunis's parents have since retired, previously her mother, Elvira, was a physics teacher that ran a pharmacy, and her father, Mark Kunis, was a mechanical engineer who worked as a cab driver. Milena Markovna Kunis was born into a Ukrainian-Jewish family on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, a city in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). Her other major films include the action films Max Payne (2008) and The Book of Eli (2010), the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits (2011), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) as the Wicked Witch of the West, and the comedies Ted (2012), Bad Moms (2016) and its sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas (2017).

She gained further critical acclaim and accolades for her performance in the psychological thriller Black Swan (2010), for which she received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress, and nominations for the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Kunis's breakout film role came in 2008, playing Rachel in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the Fox animated series Family Guy.

Born in Chernivtsi, and raised in Los Angeles, she began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series That '70s Show (1998–2006) at the age of 14. Milena Markovna ' Mila' Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress.

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