Instagram – Milana Vayntrub

In 2020, Vayntrub was subjected to a wave of online , some of it based on images of her that had been manipulated. The campaign began on an AT&T social media site, and the company came to her defense, stating “We will not tolerate the inappropriate comments and harassment of Milana Vayntrub, the talented actor that portrays Lily in our ads,” and shut down comments. Vayntrub asked that the harassment stop in an Instagram live stream, saying: “I’m hurting and it’s bringing up, like, a lot of feelings of sexual assault.”

Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub ( , : ; born March 8, 1987) is an American actress, comedian, and activist. She began her career as a child actress and came to prominence for her appearances in television commercials as saleswoman Lily Adams from 2013 to 2016 and since 2020. In addition to her commercial appearances, she was a series regular on the science fiction comedy (2015) and had a recurring role on the drama (2016–2017). Vayntrub has also voiced since 2018 after being cast as the character in the unaired for , and later in the 2024 video game .

Milana Vayntrub was born on March 8, 1987, to a secular Jewish family in , (today ). Her grandparents were from what later became . When she was two years old, she and her parents immigrated to the United States as refugees from , settling in , . She started acting in commercials at age five, in part to mitigate her family’s financial problems. Vayntrub dropped out of after her sophomore year, obtained a , and then earned a in Communication from . She studied improv comedy with the .