Milana Vayntrub

Vayntrub was born in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic,[3][4] and is Jewish.[5] When she was two and a half years old, she and her parents immigrated to the U.S. as refugees, settling in West Hollywood.[6][7]

She started acting in Mattel Barbie commercials at the age of five, due in part to her family's financial problems.[8]

Vayntrub briefly attended Beverly Hills High School, but dropped out after her sophomore year, got a GED, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from University of California, San Diego.[8] She studied improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.[3]

Vayntrub and Stevie Nelson teamed up to start the YouTube comedy channel Live Prude Girls where they produced a number of shorts and the hit web series Let's Talk About Something More Interesting.[9] Live Prude Girls went on to be featured on NewMediaRockstars' Top 100 Channels countdown, ranked at No. 93.[10]

Vayntrub has had small roles in film and television, including Life Happens. She has also starred in several CollegeHumor videos.[3] In 2011, Vayntrub was the lead in the music video for "Teenage Tide" by Letting Up Despite Great Faults. She appeared as Tara in two episodes of the sitcom Silicon Valley.

From 2013 to 2016, Vayntrub portrayed a saleswoman named "Lily Adams" in a series of TV commercials for AT&T.[3] She reprised the role in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, portraying the character as working from home.[11] She also portrayed Tina Shukshin as a series regular on the Yahoo! Screen series Other Space in 2015.

In January 2016, after visiting Greece and meeting with refugee families fleeing the Syrian Civil War, Vayntrub co-founded a website and social media movement called #CantDoNothing to spotlight the European migrant crisis.[6][7][12] She appeared in the television series This Is Us.

In July 2017, Vayntrub was cast in the lead role of Marvel Comics superheroine Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl in the New Warriors television pilot for Freeform.[13] Freeform ultimately passed on the series that November,[14] and despite attempts to move the series to another network, it was ultimately cancelled.[15][16] Despite the series' cancellation, Vayntrub voiced Squirrel Girl in the Marvel Rising franchise.[17]

In April 2020, Comedy Central's YouTube channel released three sketches starring Vayntrub and Akilah Hughes as part of a new digital sketch series called Making Fun With Akilah and Milana.[18]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milana Vayntrub.

• Milana Vayntrub on IMDb 
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• Broxton, Candace (December 15, 2015). "Milana Vayntrub". Ten Minute Interviews. Archived from the original on February 17, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2015.