Milana

Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub is an American comedian, actor and activist. She was born to Jewish parents from the Soviet Union and started her career as a child actor after she immigrated to the United States. Her most well-known work is her appearances in AT&T commercials on television. In these commercials, Lily Adams (2013 to 2016) and 2020 (since 2020 (from). She was a regular host of the Yahoo! Screen science-fiction comedy Other Space (2015). She also had regularly featured in the NBC drama This Is Us 2016-2017. Vayntrub was also cast as Squirrelgirl in Marvel Rising in 2018 following her casting in the pilot series New Warriors. Vayntrub was Jewish and was born in Tashkent in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. When she was two years old, she and her parents relocated to the U.S. as refugees to escape antisemitism, settling in West Hollywood. Due to financial hardships in her family, she began acting in Mattel Barbie commercials when she was just five years old. Vayntrub briefly attended Beverly Hills High School. She dropped out of her sophomore year and obtained a GED. Following that, she went on to earn the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication from University of California San Diego. She was a member of improv comedy group the Upright Citizens Brigade.