Milana Vayntrub is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer who hails from Uzbekistan. Most of her fans know her as Lily Adams in AT&T advertisements, but what they don't know is that she directed some of these commercials. With over 60 acting credits, including movies like 'Life Happens' and 'Ghostbusters' — TV shows like 'ER', 'Other Space', and 'This Is Us'. Vayntrub also wrote many 'CollegeHumor Originals' and 'Robot Chicken' television episodes, and the movie 'Mother's Little Helpers.'
Milana started popping up as the company's spokeswoman back in 2013, and stayed in that role until January 2016, when she traveled to Greece to visit Syrian refugees, and co-founded the social media movement 'Can't Do Nothing' to help them out. She met with refugee families who had run away from the country to flee the Syrian Civil War. The 'Can't Do Nothing' campaign is "designed to help everyday individuals have a real positive impact and assist refugees worldwide."
Vayntrub later came back to AT&T in 2020; however, she had also started directing several advertisements she participated in.
The American Actress Milana Vayntrub Is Soviet-Born
Milana Vayntrub was born on March 8, 1987, in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, so she's about 36 years old at the time of writing. Her family immigrated to the United States as refugees to run from the rising anti-Semitism there. They initially spent a couple of months in Vienna and less than a year in Italy before being allowed into the US as official refugees. They put down roots in Los Angeles, California in August 1989 in the West Hollywood area.
Vayntrub had this to say about the family's entry to the United States: "My mom worked in a factory that manufactured airplane parts and cleaned medical buildings at night, all while completing a program offered by the Jewish Federation to become a registered nurse at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. And my dad, he worked as a donut deliveryman."
It's not easy to start over, and as you can imagine, her family were suffering from a lot of financial issues, Milana started acting in TV commercials as a child, doing Mattel Barbie commercials at the tender age of 5. She studied at Beverly Hills High School through her sophomore year, then dropped out, got her GED, and signed up at the University of California, San Diego, where she eventually received a BA in Communication.
Milana Vayntrub Started Out On 'ER' Back In 1995
Milana started out appearing as a guest in three episodes of 'ER' in 1995, she then had a three-episode run as Kristen Blake on 'Days of Our Lives' the following year.
Between 2001 and 2002, she also participated in three 'Lizzie McGuire' episodes, which was canceled only two episodes in, and was a guest star on 'The Division' a couple of years later. Her first movie was in the 2011 film 'Life Happens' with Rachel Bilson, Kate Bosworth, and Krysten Ritter. Milana then appeared on 'The League' and 'Junk' the next year, and between 2013 and 2016 she was mostly focused on the AT&T commercials as Lily Adams, which she eventually stopped, only to get back to it in 2020.
Milana also has a YouTube channel called 'Live Prudent Girls', which she launched with Stevie Nelson, and was ranked the #93 on the 'NewMediaRockstars' top 100 YouTube Channels in 2014. She also took part in 15 'CollegeHumor Originals' from 2011 to 2014, and followed up as Tina Shukshin on 'Other Space', working with Paul Feig who created the show, and later reunited with her when he cast for 'Ghostbusters'.
Vayntrub kept busy between 2016 and 2017, starring as Sloane Sandburg for eight episodes in 'This Is Us', and was a guest in 'That Moment When', 'Threads', 'All Nighter', and 'The Mad Ones'. She had an essential role on the YouTube Premium series 'Dallas & Robo' in 2018, and then co-wrote, produced, and starred in the movie 'Mother's Little Helpers'.
With the pandemic at large, the movie and television business didn't slow down for Milana in 2020, she led the show 'Making Fun With Akilah And Milana' next to Akilah Hughes, which got promoted on Comedy Central's YouTube channel, while also taking part in short films 'The Shabbos Goy' and 'Die Hart'.
Between 2018 and 2021, she used her voice for the animated series 'Robot Chicken', and played in the comedy horror movie 'Werewolves Within' as Cecily Moore.
Milana Vayntrub's Current Net Worth Is Estimated At $3 Million
Given her busy career, Milana's net worth seems to be on the up, currently worth an impressive $3 million.
Factoring in her work with AT&T along with other projects, this number will only increase in the upcoming years to come.
