However, her big break came thanks to two very different television shows. In 1998,Kunis won the role of Jackie Burkhart in the Fox sitcom,That ’70s Show, and in 1999, she joined the cast ofFamily Guy, where she voices Meg Griffin. Kunis starred onThat ’70s Showfor eight seasons, and she still voices Meg Griffin to this day, over two decades later. This led to her role in several romantic comedies, includingForgetting Sarah MarshallandFriends with Benefits,and a critically acclaimed turn inBlack Swan.
Mila Kunis became a star thanks toThe ’70s Show,and, after a turn in a horror movie and a couple of smaller rom-coms, she got her first big chance in a big-time romantic comedy withForgetting Sarah Marshall. She joined the cast with another television sitcom star, Jason Segel, in the story of Peter, a guy whose girlfriend (Kristen Bell’s actress Sarah Marshall) dumps him. To get over it, he decides to vacation in Hawaii, onlyto learn in horror that Sarah and her new rockstar boyfriend, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), are staying at the same resort.
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Mila Kunis is a hotel concierge named Rachel Jansen, a young woman Peter starts getting to know better. The romantic comedy here is Peter and Rachel’s relationship, which is sweet enough, but Russell Brand steals most of the scenes he is in and even got his own spin-off movie calledGet Him to the Greek, centered on his character. Kunis did receive a Teen Choice Award nomination for Breakout Female, one of five nominations the film received, although it didn’t win any.
In 2009, Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy) directed the comedy filmExtract. The movie stars Jason Bateman as Joel Reynolds, the owner and founder of a company that makes flavored extracts. Much in the same way thatOffice Spacewas a workplace comedy,Extractalso is, but it shows the work inside of a factory warehouseand the wild things that can happen there that can cause any employee to lose it. Obviously, the theme of dissatisfaction at work plays a big role in both movies.
WhileForgetting Sarah Marshallwas Mila Kunis' first major romantic comedy role, her first where she was actually one of the lead actors came three years later when she starred inFriends with Benefits. She appears alongside Justin Timberlake in this movie about two pals who have been unlucky in love and decide that they are good enough friends that they can add guilt-free sex to the mix and not have it hurt their relationship. Of course, that complicates everything in the end.
Critics appreciated the movie’s humor, awarding it a 69% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was compared to a very similar movie that came out the same year,No Strings Attached, which starred Kunis’That ’70s Showco-star and future husband, Ashton Kutcher. However,Friends with Benefitswas considered the better of the two romantic comedies. Kunis received nominations at the Teen Choice Awards and People’s Choice Awards but didn’t win either of the honors.
In 2010, Mila Kunis took on a role in the Hughes brothers' post-apocalyptic neo-Western filmThe Book of Eli. This movie stars Denzel Washington as a man traveling on foot across the wasteland of the former United States after a nuclear holocaust.He is protecting a mysterious book that he has plans to deliver to a safe locationfor preservation. However, some people in the wastelands don’t want this book found and will do anything to stop Eli, most notably a warlord known as Carnegie (Gary Oldman).
Carnegie is a man who rules by fear and holds control by ensuring that the people around him remain uneducated in both general knowledge and history. Mila Kunis stars as Solara, Carnegie’s daughter, who he uses to try to entrap Eli. However, she ends up helping him instead, betraying her father and helping ensure this wandering nomad’s journey is completed. The movie received mixed reviews, primarily based onThe Book of Eli’s major twistthat polarized the responses. Despite this, the film was a great parable, and Kunis was solid in her role.
Between her roles inForgetting Sarah MarshallandFriends with Benefits, Mila Kunis had a supporting role in a romantic comedy starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey. This movie wasDate Night, where the leads played Phil and Claire, a married couple with two kids who want to rekindle a romance that has become stagnant with a glamorous night out. However, things spiral out of control when they use the name of a canceled reservation to ensure seats at a fancy, only to learn that the couple they’re impersonating stole something from a mob boss.
Believing they are the culprits, the mob sets out after them, and Phil and Claire get much more than they bargained for during their romantic date. The couple they used the names of were"Taste" (James Franco) and “Whippit” (Mila Kunis), and they are mostly in the movie as surprise casting choices in a fun moment.Date Nightwon the Teen Choice Award for Movie Comedy.
In 2016, a female-led, R-rated raunchy comedy arrived with Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn in the lead roles, calledBad Moms. In this film, the three women played suburban mothers growing bored with their lives. Kunis isAmy, a 32-year-old mother of two kids who kicks her husband outafter catching him cheating on her with a camgirl. She quits the PTA and goes out drinking, where she meets two other women — Carla (a proudly promiscuous single mom) and Kiki (a stay-at-home mom of four).
They decide to have an all-night-drinking bender that convinces Amy to be more lenient with her kids, and as she starts to make changes in her life, everything seems to start coming together for her until the more uptight mothers in the PTA plot against her. The film was a huge success, making $183.9 million at the box office on a $22 million budget, and while it received only average critical reviews, the audience score was higher, and it got a sequel calledA Bad Moms Christmas.
Before appearing inBad Moms, Mila Kunis got her first blockbuster comedy experience with an R-rated comedy by starring inTed. Directed byFamily Guycreator Seth MacFarlane,Tedstars Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett, a 35-year-old man who lives with his jumbo sentient teddy bear named Ted.Mila Kunis stars as John’s live-in girlfriend, and the three live a very wild lifestyle. However, when Lori wonders if they will ever get married, considering Ted is always around, things get complicated.
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While John gets Ted his own place to live, he and Lori struggle when she learns John has been skipping work to hang out with Ted, which causes complications. The movie was a massive success, making $549 million on a $50 million budget despite average reviews and a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Tedeven received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. While John and Lori married inTed,Mila Kunis did not return forTed 2.
That ’70s Showmade Mila Kunis a star. Shockingly, while the actors playing the kids on the show were all over 18, that was not true for Mila Kunis, who lied about her age, and was only 14 when she was cast to play Jackie Burkhart (viaAmerican Way). This means the world got to watch Kunis grow up on the sitcom about a group of friends trying to make it through the wild world of the 1970s. To match her age gap,Jackie was the youngest member of the group, starting as a selfish, immature rich kid.
However, Jackie underwent major changes as the series rolled on, with her becoming a more genuine character, especially after her dad went to jail.That ’70s Showran for eight seasons and 200 episodes, and Kunis later returned for a small guest starring role in the sequel series,That ’90s Show. Kunis was nominated seven times for Choice Actress at the Teen Choice Awards and won twice at the YoungStar Awards for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series.
Mila Kunis is one of the main voice actors onFamily Guyand has been for over 20 years. Kunis voices daughter Meg Griffin, a role she took over from Lacey Chabert during the second season and still holds today.Meg is the only daughter of Peter and Lois Griffin, sister to Chris and Stewie, and often seen as an outcast who faces ridicule from everyone, especially her own family. She is often portrayed as insecure and self-conscious, but she has also come a long way in her portrayal over the years.
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Family Guyhas been on Fox since 1999, although it was canceled from 2003 to 2005. Running 23 seasons and counting, Kunis has voiced Meg in 22 of them for well over 400 episodes. While she wasn’t the original Meg, it is hard to think of anyone but Mila Kunis playing the role now. Chabert was a good voice actor and has gone on to voice roles inThe Wild ThornberrysandBratz, but Kunis is Meg Griffin and doesn’t look to be leaving the popular role anytime soon.
It isn’t her most popular role, but Mila Kunis' role in Darren Aronofsky’sBlack Swanremains the best and most critically acclaimed performance of her career.Black Swanstars Natalie Portman as a professional ballerina named Nina Sayers, who is the perfect fit to play the role of the White Swan in the production ofSwan Lake. However, while Nina is perfect for the White Swan,her rival Lily (Kunis) is the perfect fit for the Black Swan, and since only one dancer gets both roles, this causes intense competition.
The film is a psychological horror movie, with Nina starting to lose her grip on reality and not realizing what is real and what is in her head as she fights for the role, often to her own detriment. Despite its difficult subject matter,Black Swanwas a commercial success, making $329 million on a $13 million budget and receiving five Oscar nominations, with Portman winning Best Actress.Mila Kuniswon awards at the Saturn Awards, Scream Awards, and the Venice Film Festival.
