Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (; Uzbek Cyrillic: ?????? ????????????? ????????; born March 8, 1987) is an Uzbekistan-born American actress and comedian, who is known for playing the character Lily Adams in a series of AT&T television commercials.
Vayntrub has appeared in many short films and in the web series Let's Talk About Something More Interesting, co-starring Stevie Nelson. She starred in the Yahoo! Screen series Other Space.
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Early life
Vayntrub was born in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and is Jewish. When she was two and a half years old, she and her parents emigrated to the U.S. as refugees, settling in West Hollywood.
She started acting in Mattel Barbie commercials at the age of five, due in part to her family's financial problems.
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 Communications from University of California, San Diego. She received training with the improvisational comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade.
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Career
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. Live Prude Girls went on to be featured on NewMediaRockstars' Top 100 Channels countdown, ranked at No. 93.
Vayntrub has had small roles in film and television, including Life Happens. She has also starred in several CollegeHumor videos. 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.
Since November 2013, she has portrayed a saleswoman named "Lily Adams" in a series of TV commercials for AT&T. She also portrayed Tina Shukshin on the Yahoo! Screen original series Other Space.
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. She appeared in the television series This Is Us as Sloane Sandburg, author and co-star of the play in which Kevin Pearson is starring in New York.
In July 2017, Vayntrub was cast in the lead role of Marvel superheroine Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl in Marvel's upcoming television series New Warriors.
Filmography
References
External links
- Milana Vayntrub on IMDb
- Milana Vayntrub at AllMovie
- Broxton, Candace (December 15, 2015). "Milana Vayntrub". Ten Minute Interviews.
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