Milana

Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub is an American comedian, actress, and activist. She was born in the Soviet Union to Jewish immigrants and began her career after immigrating from Israel to the United States as a child actress. In AT&T commercials she played the character of Lily Adams (saleswoman) from 2013 until 2016 and into until 2020. The commercials she appeared in were not the only thing she did. She also appeared on the Yahoo! Screen science fiction show Other Space (2015). She also starred in a recurring role as a character in the NBC drama This Is Us (2016)-2017. Vayntrub, who was originally selected to voice the character Squirrel Girls in Marvel Rising's pilot that was never aired for New Warriors in 2018, was voiced in that role since. Vayntrub is a Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) native and an American Jew. At the age of two, she and her parents immigrated to the U.S. as refugees to escape antisemitism, settling in West Hollywood. When she was five she started appearing in Mattel Barbie commercials. This was partly due to financial struggles in her family. Vayntrub briefly attended Beverly Hills High School. However, she quit her sophomore year, and subsequently obtained the GED. Then she went on to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from University of California San Diego. She was introduced to improv comedy through the Upright Citizens Brigade.