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As immigrant stories go, Mila Kunis’s is more or less a typical American tale.

She was born in 1983 in the then-Soviet city of Chernivtsi (located in present-day Ukraine), where she and her relatives, some of whom survived the Holocaust

Saw other people facing anti-Semitism, oppression and lack of opportunity pack up and relocate.

It was a move her grandfather emphatically resisted until — in a twist worthy of Hollywood — he saw Disneyland.