Milana

Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub, an American comedian and actress, is also known as Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub. After immigrating to America she was born in the Soviet Union to Jewish parents. Her first professional work was as an actor for children. Her appearances as Lily Adams in AT&T TV commercials between 2013 and 2016 - and now from 2020 on - made her famous. She was also a frequent series regular on Yahoo! Screen science-fiction comedy Other Space (2015). Additionally she was a series regular on Yahoo! Vayntrub was originally chosen to play the character Squirrel Girls in Marvel Rising's pilot that was never aired for New Warriors in 2018, has voiced the character since. Vayntrub was born in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, and is Jewish. At two years of age, she and her parents immigrated to the U.S. as refugees to avoid antisemitism and settled in West Hollywood. Because of financial struggles within her family, she started acting in Mattel Barbie commercials when she was five years old. Vayntrub briefly was a student at Beverly Hills High School. She dropped out of her sophomore year and obtained the GED. Following that she went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from University of California San Diego. As part of the Upright Citizens Brigade she studied improv comedy.