Did the parents of Hollywood actress Mila Kunis really win the lottery?

Actor Mila Kunis (center) out walking in London with her parents and Ashton Kutcher (right).

There’s a lot of confused fans out there who believe that actress Mila Kunis' parents won a lottery that enabled them to come from Russia to live in the United States.

In fact it was a type of 'green card' lottery that allowed her family to move to Los Angeles, California, in 1991.

Milena Markovna Kunis was born on on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher and drug store manager, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer and cab company executive. 

Mila married actor, producer and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher in 2015. He famously said in 2011 that winning the lead role in tv comedy Two And A Half Men was like winning the lottery.

Kunis said that a lottery system allowed her family to make the move:

"It took about five years. If you got chosen the first time around, you went to Moscow, where there was another lottery, and you maybe got chosen again. Then you could come to the States."

So now you know the two kinds of lotteries. Don't get confused!