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From Ukraine to Hollywood: How Mila Kunis Started

'14.08.2018'

Source: Газета.ру

On August 14, the American actress of Ukrainian origin Mila Kunis celebrates her anniversary - the Hollywood star turns 35 years old.

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Edition “Газета.ру”Told about her way from the Ukrainian regional center to the top of Hollywood.

Mila Kunis was born 14 August 1983, in Chernivtsi, in southwestern Ukraine. As the actress herself says, her childhood was quite happy, since the girl was “very lucky” with her parents, a mechanical engineer and a physics teacher — Mila’s family was not in poverty and was provided with everything necessary. When Kunis was seven years old, she, along with her mom, dad and older brother, moved to the United States, namely to Los Angeles: adults thought that in America children would have much more chances to reveal themselves than at home.

The move was not easy for Mile - at first she was under tremendous stress due to lack of knowledge of the language, which resulted in great problems with her studies and difficulties in communicating with her peers. The actress later compared herself to a blind and deaf child, confessing that immediately after emigrating to the States, she could not understand not only the speech of people, but also the local culture, as well as American customs. All the more surprising that Mila's first role is dated to 1994 for the year (the cult soap opera “Days of Our Life”), the girl was only 11 years old.

At the age of nine, Kunis began studying at an acting school in Beverly Hills, and the tempting job offers fell on the child almost from the first days after admission - in particular, she participated in the shooting of advertising products, as well as Barbie dolls.

The first serious role was given to Mile in 1998, when the actress's portfolio was already relatively impressive thanks to episodic appearances in diverse projects: Kunis was not equal in casting for the role of a spoiled teenager in the 70's show.

Participation in the sitcom was decisive for the early stage of the girl’s career - she was filmed on the Fox show up to 2006, playing a total of two hundred episodes, and was awarded several prestigious awards and nominations, including a constant hit on the list of candidates for the Teen Choise Award. Awards.

Soon, Kunis was lucky to be in an even bigger project - the hooligan serial Griffin, where the girl was entrusted to voice Meg Griffin, one of the paramount characters.

At the start of the XXI century, Mila decided to try herself in the big cinema, but she didn’t find much success in this field: having played in the romantic comedy “The Virus of Love” together with Kirsten Dunst and the sequel to the thriller “The American Psycho” (both tapes were disappointed by critics) Kunis for several years remained without major film roles and was forced to interrupt work in little-known projects.

The real breakthrough in the career of an actress happened only in 2007, when three more or less good films with a native of Ukraine starring on the screens (“Camp”, “Running MacAllister” and “After Sex”) appeared on screens, and next year the success was fixed by the adaptation of the computer game "Max Payne" with Mark Wahlberg and the comedy "In the Flight", where she starred with the star "How I Met Your Mother" Jason Siegel.

It is “In the Flight” that Kunis herself considers the main impetus for a successful career after “The 70's Show” - Mila was finally praised by the critics, and the tape itself turned out to be quite successful.

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Having played for several years in several other medium-sized films (including the multi-budget “Book of Eli”), Kunis won perhaps his best role so far - Nina's ballerina in the dramatic thriller “The Black Swan”, for which Mila received a nomination for “Golden Globe "And finally proved to skeptics that it is capable of playing not only in comedies and action movies. And for the sake of the project, the actress had to make tangible sacrifices: in preparing for the shooting, Kunis worked ballet for several hours a day, and also lost weight fiercely.

Cinematographers, however, even after “Black Swan” did not cease to see the actress as a star of large, but not the most sophisticated projects - in recent years, Mila played leading roles in a number of big comedies (“The Third Extra”, “Friendship Sex”, “Very bad mummies ”,“ The spy who threw me ”) and blockbusters (“ Oz: the Great and Awful ”,“ Rising Jupiter ”), whereas in the potentially“ Oscar-winning ”pictures she was invited much less willingly.

However, Kunis herself is hardly upset about this status: participation in multi-budget tapes allowed her to get into the top 2017 of Forbes’s highest-paying actresses with an income of $ 5 million in 15,5. In parallel, Mila signed contracts with some fashion houses, including Christian Dior.

The girl’s personal life turned out to be no less vivid - at different times she met with actors Macaulay Kalkin and Ashton Kutcher, her longtime acquaintances on the show “70's Show” - she married him in 2014 and married, later having given birth to two children. Mila is also a close friend of the family of Michael Jackson and was on the pop king's funeral invitation list.

Kunis found a special love of fans in his historic homeland, where she was helped a lot by the excellent (given emigration to the USA as a child) knowledge of the Russian language - coming to Ukraine with a promotional campaign for the next film, Mila becomes a real decoration of press conferences, free and with a noticeable accent) communicating with journalists on various topics.

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