How much is Mila Kunis worth?
| Net Worth: | $60 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | August 14, 1983 (age 39) |
| Country: | Ukraine-born American |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
About Mila Kunis
Kunis was born in the Ukraine. When she was 7 years old, in 1991, she and her family moved to Los Angeles, California, with US$250. “My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life,” she has said. “You know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you’re a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.”
She has also said that “[she] had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone.”
Mila Kunis was cast as in one of the main roles of an ensemble cast in That ’70s Show, a sitcom that ran for eight years. Set over 20 years before the series was created, Kunis gained attention from audiences and her career began to gain traction. On the show she was cast as Jackie Burkhart, and as fate would have it, she appeared next to her future husband Ashton Kutcher, who played the role of Michael Kelso.
Not long after being cast in the sitcom, Kunis was cast by the writer, actor, and producer of Family Guy, Seth McFarlane. Kunis won the part of Meg Griffin, the outcast and scapegoat of the series, and it is a role she continues to play to this day.
She didn’t transition into a movie star straight away, as her first starring role was in a direct-to-DVD sequel of American Psycho, a movie that shouldn’t have had a sequel in the first place. When she was working on the critically panned film, it had a different title and Kunis had no idea it was going to be connected to the now classic Bret Easton Ellis adaptation.
The original screenplay was completely unrelated to the highly acclaimed American Psycho, but after the movie was so successful at the box-office, American Psycho 2 was re-edited in to a sequel so it could appeal to fans of that movie, and become more profitable. This is something that Kunis has disapproved of and she is admittedly embarrassed of the movie.
It soon picked up for her though, as Kunis would go on to surprise critics for her stand out roles in Forgetting Sarah Marshall with Jason Segel, and Extract, a movie by celebrated comedy director Mike Judge. She continued this success with two smash hits in 2010, The Book of Eli and Black Swan. In the former, she starred alongside Denzel Washington, and in the latter with Natalie Portman, two acting heavyweights, and Mila Kunis held her own alongside both of them. Kunis was even nominated for multiple awards for her role in Black Swan, including being nominated for a Golden Globe and winning a Saturn award for “Best Supporting Actress”.
Kunis is extremely dedicated. For Black Swan she only ate 1200 calories a day and took ballet classes for four hours a day, seven days a week in order to transform into Natalie Portman’s ballet dancing nemesis.
The peak of Mila Kunis’ success was in the early 2010s. After acting in several successful action movies and rom-coms, she landed a leading role in Ted in 2012. The movie, which is about a talking teddy bear with dirty habits, made $549.4 million, which is unheard of for R-rated comedies. She then starred in romcom Friends with Benefits in 2011 with co-star Justin Timberlake, with just a $35 million budget and an $149.5 million gross, the movie was an epic success.
The year after, she starred in Oz: The Great and Powerful as The Wicked Witch of the West, which came close to reaching the half a billion landmark at the box office.
When an actor plays a role on television for so long, they begin to have leverage after a few years. It happened famously with the Friends cast when they ended up earnings $1 million dollars per episode in the final season. This is no different with Mila Kunis, and not only was she in one successful television series, but two. The actor makes a reported $225,000 per episode of Family Guy for voicing Meg, a job she has now had for over 20 years, making Meg one of TV’s longest running characters.
Kunis reportedly earned $100,000 per episode of That 70s Show, however, it is very likely that it became a lot more than that in the later seasons. Nicki Swift says that while they don’t know exactly how much Kunis earned for the show, one of her co-stars raked in “$250,000 to $300,000 per episode,” leading us to believe that she could have earned more. However it has been reported that the show’s “principal voice actors each earn $100,000 per episode”.
Unlike her husband, Ashton Kutcher, the live-action TV starring phase of her life is behind her, and unlike every other actor on earth, she doesn’t have any interest in starring in superhero movies. However, she has still found success in a more modern movie franchise. Bad Moms was released in 2016, and a Christmas themed sequel quickly followed the next year.
Both movies were highly successful earning a combined box office gross of $314.5, from budgets of $20 and $28 million respectively. The actress would have made more than just her acting salary too, as she served as an executive producer on the original. She has served as an executive producer for other projects as well, which means she has likely earned addition income in addition to a base salary.
With a talent and vast experience in voice acting, Kunis has also lent her voice to Saints Row, an open world video-game, as well as the Family Guy tie-in game. Her animated voice work doesn’t end with Family Guy either, she has voiced various roles in Robot Chicken, Wonder Park, and Word World.
Kunis’ Total Net Worth
Mila Kunis has a great working relationship with writer and director of Family Guy, Seth McFarlane, as, not only do they work together for the series, but he cast her in a leading role in one of the modern classic comedies, Ted, and he even referenced her in his follow up movie, A Million Ways To Die In The West. For her role as Meg Griffin in Family Guy, Kunis has reportedly been earning $250,000 to $300,000 per episode for around the last five seasons.
She also has a close relationship with Seth Green, as they worked together in That 70s Show, Family Guy, and he has cast her in different roles in his series, Robot Chicken.
For That ’70s Show it has been reported that Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher were earning $250,000 to $300,000 per episode. That worked out as $6 million to $8 million per season. It is estimated that Kunis earned between $5 and $7.5 million per season, after season 6.
Some of the movie roles that have been most lucrative for her, have been Friends with Benefits, Black Swan and Bad Moms. Overall, from all of her work in the entertainment business, combined with her endorsement deals with the likes of Dior. Kunis has earned career earnings of some estimated $115 million.
Of that amount, $6-8 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. That figure is lower than most as Kunis has been cast in many of her roles, without the use of an agent. The remainder, $108 million, will have been taxed at 49% as Kunis has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $55.08 million dollars, having paid $52.92 million dollars in taxes.
Mila Kunis married Ashton Kutcher in 2015 and they remain together. They have children, Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher and Dimitri Portwood Kutcher and seem stable and happy. Kunis has had some health problems, in 2011 she revealed her struggle with chronic iritis that had caused her temporary blindness in one eye. While the costs are likely negligible when calculating her final net worth, it may have impacted her ability to manage her investments and certainly affected her career earnings.
Kunis may have also lost some money, which is normal, especially while learning to invest. However it is estimated that her investment gains at this point outweigh her losses. In her personal life Kunis has likely spent $4-5 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $2-3 million, not including investment assets.
In real estate, Kunis purchased a condo in West Hollywood in 2002 for a reported $540,000. In 2008, she purchase a property in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles for $2.9 million. In 2014, together with her soon to be husband Ashton Kutcher she purchased a property in Beverly Hills for $10.2 million. They later sold it in 2022 for $10.35 million. In 2017, Kunis purchased a beachfront home in Carpenteria, California, near Santa Barbara for around $10 million.
Her combined investment returns may have been around $5-7 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Mila Kunis has a net worth of a rounded up $60 million dollars.
Summing-Up
We heard her as the voice actor for Meg Girffin in Family Guy, but all fell in love with her as Jamie Rellis in Friends with Benefits. Mila Kunis emigrated to the United States as a child and is a perfect example of the American Dream.
