Mila Kunis

Kunis in 2012, photo by PR Photos

Birth Name: Milena Markovna Kunis

Place of Birth: Chernivtsi, 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 Chernivtsi, 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

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359 Responses

  1. visokozen says:

    She can easily pass for a gypsie.

  2. ashash says:

    She is the most beautiful woman of color.

  3. Wow says:

    In the comments we see that “Ashkenazi Jewish” is an ethnicity that confuses everything and people love to argue over it.

    It’s a “bottle-necked community” based on religious (meaning people would marry and have babies from this group exclusively to hang onto culture and religion, and because of feeling like outsiders). They moved from place to place, occasionally mixing. It is plausible to say she could have Mediterranean roots.

    To the people bringing up “Khazar”, check your sources.

    • Dogg says:

      And the Khazar Theory has never been disproven, there is just not much evidence to back it up. We don’t any Khazar people to test their DNA so we can’t know for sure.

      • BloodyMachinery says:

        @Dogg but we do have other people from the Levant (Palestinian, Lebanese, etc) who Ashkenazi Jews share more DNA with than Europeans. This is consistent with the idea that Jews came from the Levant originally.

  4. ashash says:

    Her daughter with Ashton Kutcher will be stunning. Mila is already perfect-looking.

  5. elina says:

    ps the odessa is a 100% Russian city bulded by Russians with the standards of the architecture of the Russian city santk peterbourg like the most ukranian cities and soon it will be again Russian believe me!most of the polpulation there are Rusians then ukranians jews etc!

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