Do we like Mila Kunis?
Our score: 5 out of 10. A clean record on harm and real good done, balanced by the Danny Masterson character letter, which she apologised for and which keeps this a close call.
Mila Kunis was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, in 1983 and moved to Los Angeles at seven. She started in TV commercials, landed a recurring role on That '70s Show at 14, and has voiced Meg on Family Guy since the late nineties. Black Swan then earned her Golden Globe and SAG nominations, so she's proper career-long Hollywood, not a flash in the pan.
Here's the stain. Before her That '70s Show co-star Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life, Kunis was one of more than 50 people who wrote to the judge for him. Her letter called him an “outstanding older brother figure”. After the backlash she and her husband Ashton Kutcher put out an apology video: “We support victims.” They said the letters weren't meant to question the jury's verdict. Plenty of people weren't satisfied, and you can see why.
On the harm test, we found nothing nasty from her. In 2016 she hit back at Trump's rhetoric on immigrants, saying her family came on a religious-refugee visa and “I'm not going to blow this country up.” She has said she wouldn't marry while it didn't “feel equal” for her gay friends. She also signed a 2021 open letter rejecting a boycott of a Tel Aviv LGBTQ+ film festival, which some will read as anti-boycott and others will see differently. We found nothing on her and climate or vaccines either way.
Nothing brand new lately, honestly. The most recent noise was January 2026, when she and Kutcher showed up at the Golden Globes, their first awards show in a few years, and some social media users said they still hadn't forgiven the Masterson letters. That's the reaction of fans online, reported by a gossip-leaning site, not a new scandal. Her recent projects are thin in the solid sources we could open, so we can't say who she's been working with.
The good stuff is real. In March 2022, days after Russia's invasion, she and Kutcher launched a Stand With Ukraine GoFundMe with a pledge to match up to $3 million. Kunis said “Today, I am a proud Ukrainian.” Later reports put the total well past the $30 million goal, though we only opened the launch coverage.
She's also been willing to say the uncomfortable thing about her own industry. In a 2016 open letter she wrote that she'd been “insulted, sidelined, paid less, creatively ignored, and otherwise diminished based on my gender.” She also described a producer threatening that she'd never work again after she refused a semi-nude magazine cover.