Part of That '70s Show featuring Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, and Wilmer Valderrama.
Rise to Fame
She arrived in Los Angeles at seven from Chernivtsi, Ukraine, with no English and $250 to her family's name. She learned the language from The Price Is Right. At 14, she auditioned for That '70s Show and, when asked if she was 18, reportedly said she would be, not specifying which birthday. Eight seasons as Jackie Burkhart followed. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) was the pivot. Darren Aronofsky saw it and cast her as Lily in Black Swan without an audition, and she trained seven days a week for five months to earn that trust.
In the Spotlight
She and Ashton Kutcher each cap themselves at one film a year so someone is always home with the kids. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) was her pick, a Netflix ensemble with Daniel Craig and Glenn Close that landed well. Nightwatching for Amazon MGM is next, and she's producing it herself. The Ukraine fundraising she and Kutcher ran in 2022 cleared $37 million, including a $3 million personal pledge, which put her in the news for something that had nothing to do with a red carpet.
Side Notes
She had heterochromia, one brown eye and one green, and was blind in one eye for years due to chronic iritis. Surgery in 2011 corrected both. Throw in ADHD and a Ritalin prescription she still fills as an adult. For years she told interviewers she was Russian because it was simpler than explaining. Then the 2022 invasion happened and she stopped doing that. Her family left Chernivtsi on a religious-refugee visa when she was seven, fleeing antisemitism, which makes the pivot feel less like PR and more like something she'd been sitting on.