Mila Kunis

 Milena Markovna Kunis was born in a family of Ukrainian Jews on August 14, 1983,[3located in Chernivtsi, a city in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher who runs a pharmacy, and her father, Mark Kunis, is an engineer with a mechanical background working as a taxi driver. Kunis is the elder sister of Michael. Her grandparents survived the Holocaust. Her mother tongue and the most common language in the family is Russian. Conan O'Brien's needs a Friend Kunis admitted that she does not speak Ukrainian when she was a participant in Conan O'Brien's Needs a Friend Kunis. She stated that Russian was her main native language during her time in Russia. 10] Children weren't taught Ukrainian at school until they entered the second grade which was the year she left to move to the United States. [10] In 2011, she said that her parents were "amazing" and she considered herself "very fortunate". The family she was born into was not poor and that they had left the Soviet Union as they "saw no prospects" for Mila and her brother. Her family moved to Los Angeles in 1991 with US$250 when she was seven years old. "That was all that we could carry with us. My parents were required to quit their good jobs and degrees that could not be transferred. Our arrival in New York was on Wednesday. By Friday morning my brother and I were in school in L.A.