From Ukraine to LA: How Mila Kunis' family fled the Soviet Union when she was 7 years old
Mila Kunis, born Milena Markovna Kunis, is a proud Ukrainian, originally from Chernivtsi. Her Jewish family fled Ukraine, which at the time was a Soviet republic, when she was only seven years old in 1991, right before its fall. Her father Mark was a mechanical engineer in Ukraine and her mother Elvira was a physics teacher. She has previously cited antisemitism in the Soviet Union as one of the reasons her family fled the country. In 2011, the successful actress opened up to the Daily Telegraph about her early childhood.