Milana Vayntrub's Real Name: Milana Vayntrub

Quick answer: The actress and comedian is known professionally as Milana Vayntrub. TV Insider lists a longer name, a March 8, 1987, birth date, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as the birthplace. Those details are not independently confirmed here by a second independent publisher, so this page titles her under the public name and does not treat the date and town as settled in the summary.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify her under the professional name Milana Vayntrub. TV Insider lists the birth name Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub, dates the birth to March 8, 1987, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and says she was born in the former Soviet Union, fled with her parents at age 3 to avoid religious persecution, and settled in West Hollywood, California, after moving to the United States in 1989. The same account says she attended Beverly Hills High School for two years before leaving, earned a GED, and later received a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of California, San Diego, before studying improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Hollywood. Adweek, in a July 24, 2016, profile, independently identifies her as an actress and director working in Los Angeles and discusses her activism and commercial work, without giving a birth date or a longer name. The longer name, date, and Tashkent listing therefore rest on the TV Insider account.

Career highlights

Adweek says that by mid-2016 she had appeared in 40 AT&T commercials as store manager Lily Adams, though she had originally been supposed to appear in only one, and that she was also directing and doing activist work, including filming in Azraq, Jordan. TV Insider independently says she became known for a recurring part in a series of popular AT&T commercials, and lists earlier television work including two episodes of Silicon Valley (2014), Other Space (2015), and a recurring role on This Is Us (2016– ). The same TV Insider account says she was later cast as Squirrel Girl on Freeform's Marvel's New Warriors, and lists earlier short-form comedy including 6 Women (2010) and Give up the Ghost (2012). TV Insider also lists later film credits including Werewolves Within (2021) and Out of Office (2022).

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Milana Vayntrub are looking for the same actress and comedian, including the AT&T commercials most often associated with her work. This page uses the public professional name.