Mila Kunis
Kunis in 2012, photo by PR Photos
Birth Name: Milena Markovna Kunis
Place of Birth: Chernov’tsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Date of Birth: August 14, 1983
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Mila Kunis is an American actress. She is known for her roles on That ’70s Show, and in the movies Piranha (1995), Santa with Muscles, Gia, Krippendorf’s Tribe, Get Over It, American Psycho 2, After Sex, Moving McAllister, Boot Camp, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Max Payne, Extract, The Book of Eli, Date Night, Black Swan, Friends with Benefits, Ted, The Color of Time, Oz the Great and Powerful, Blood Ties, Third Person, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, Jupiter Ascending, Bad Moms, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Wonder Park, Four Good Days, Breaking News in Yuba County, and Luckiest Girl Alive.
She was born in Chernov’tsi, the daughter of Elvira, a physics teacher who ran a pharmacy, and Mark Kunis, a mechanical engineer and cab driver. Her parents are both Jewish. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was seven years old, in 1991, settling in Los Angeles, California. She spoke Russian growing up.
Mila is married to actor Ashton Kutcher, with whom she has two children.
Three of Mila’s grandparents are named Boris, Roza/Rosa, and Yitzhak.
A 23andMe DNA test taken by Mila stated that her genetic ancestry is:
*96%-98% Ashkenazi Jewish
Mila has also said:
The amount of guilt that I’ve perfected the use of – already on my 3-year-old – is magical… I took a 23 and Me test, where you find out… what’s your DNA… and I’m thinking “I’m going to be exotic… there’s going to be something wonderful about me.” No, ya’ll, I am 96% Ashkenazi Jew. You know what that means? I’m inbred. I am really Jewish, you guys. There is nothing about me that’s exotic. I am a Jew. You know what that means? Guilt.
Sources: Interview with Mila Kunis in JVibe Magazine – http://archive.is
Genealogy of Mila Kunis – https://www.geni.com
Kunis in 2011
correction; I think her eye colour should be listed as;
‘green (one eye grey/green the other green/hazel)’
correction; her eyes are green (one eye is grey/green the other is green/hazel) and her hair is virtually black (noirette) I think it should be listed
what is the color virtually black (noirette)?? how can I recognize a virtually black noirette haircolor?, I wanna know if my hair has a mix of this color too?, mine has a mix of various colors. Plz n thx
she isnt dark at all at natural, thats make up and tan
http://media.gossipblog.it/E/Ecc/EccoMilaKunissenzatrucco.png
When someone themselves practices a religion and chooses to be a part of a religion, then they are, if I am in a Christian family and choose to practice Islam, then I’d be part of the religion, thus making me Muslim, BUT not changing my actual nationalities, which is something I cannot change because that is something you are born into. I hope this clears things up a bit and helps people better understand, I’m not trying to sound like a jerk here or talk down to anyone, it just annoys me when people make this mistake so often.
It seems Jewish is an ethnicity when it comes to annoying comedians, and becomes only a religion with anyone else. Anyway, Ashkenazi Jewish is definitely an ethnicity, and Kunis’ Soviet passport and birth certificate would have said something along the lines of “Nationality: Jewish”.
You don’t understand the complexity when it comes to why a person is considered a Jew. For one, Mila Kunis is a russian Jew like my family, in the Soviet Union you were considered a Jew and not Russian so we very much identify with it whether we practice or not. Ashkenazi Jews in general are most definitely an ethno-religious group and not just people who practice a religion.
Jews also follow the matrilineal line so whether you practice or not you are still considered a Jew. There may be people who convert to Judaism but if you’re born into it you’re considered one no matter what.
“The word “Jew” is used to refer to all of the physical and spiritual descendants of Jacob/Israel, as well as to the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac and their wives, and the word “Judaism” is used to refer to their beliefs.”
“According to Jewish law, a child born to a Jewish mother or an adult who has converted to Judaism is considered a Jew…a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox. In this sense, Judaism is more like a nationality than like other religions, and being Jewish is like a citizenship.”
We are more than a religion and even if we convert to something else we’re still Jewish.
http://www.jewfaq.org/m/whoisjew.htm
she born in Chernovtsi(Ukraine) not Kiev!