The character was portrayed by Kathy Tong and voiced by Julia Murney and Wendy Hoopes in the video games, and was played by Mila Kunis in the film adaptation.

Mona Sax is a mysterious professional assassin, living in a derelict theme park on Coney Island that she set up as her base.

She is introduced in the first Max Payne game as the "evil twin" of her younger sister Lisa, the abused wife of the Mafia boss Angelo Punchinello.

It is revealed that she was employed by Nicole Horne, the renegade member of the secret society calling themselves the Inner Circle who has left the organization and manages Aesir Industries, a mysterious corporation that is behind the drug Valkyr.

By the end of the first game, Mona disappears in the Aesir headquarters elevator after being shot in the head by mercenaries for refusing an order to kill Max.

[3][4] Mona was portrayed by Mila Kunis in the 2008 film Max Payne,[5] whose role was described as "an assassin who teams up with the title character to avenge her sister's death.

"[6] In the film, she is a Russian mobster and Max is the main suspect in the death of her sister Natasha (an original character similar to the game's Lisa and portrayed by Olga Kurylenko).

"[11] As a self-described method actress, Kunis "took her job seriously" and "insisted on practicing a lot", but disliked Mona's outfit in the film, which was different from what the character wore in the games: "The clothes sucked.

While presenting as brave and competent, Mona also refers to herself as a "damsel in distress", and her inability to kill Max to due to having developed "feelings" for him was described as the games' designers pandering to "locker-room gender ideology".

[20] Mona Sax film actress Mila Kunis received generally negative reception from critics at TIME and GameZone, the latter whom felt the video game portrayal was superior.