Background
Vayntrub was born in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and is Jewish.
Vayntrub was born in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and is Jewish.
Vayntrub has appeared in many short films and in the web series Let"s Talk About Something More Interesting co-starring Stevie Nelson. She starred in the Yahoo! Screen series Other Space. She started acting in Mattel Barbie commercials at the age of five, due in part to her family"s financial problems.
Vayntrub briefly attended Beverly Hills High School, but dropped out after her sophomore year, got a General Educational Development, and went on to get a degree in communication from University of California, San Diego.
She received training with the improvisational comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade. Vayntrub and Stevie Nelson teamed up to start the YouTube comedy channel Live Prude Girls where they produced a number of shorts and the hit web series Let"s Talk About Something More Interesting.
Live Prude Girls went on to be featured on NewMediaRockstars" Top 100 Channels countdown, ranked at #93. Vayntrub has had small roles in film and television, including Life Happens.
She has also starred in several CollegeHumor videos.
In 2011, Vayntrub was the lead in the music video for "Teenage Tide" by Letting Up Despite Great Faults. She appeared as Tara in an episode of the sitcom Silicon Valley. Since November 2013, she has portrayed a saleswoman named "Lily Adams" in a series of television commercials for American Telephone & Telegraph Company. She also portrayed Tina Shukshin on the Yahoo! Screen original series Other Space.
In January 2016, after visiting Greece and meeting with refugee families fleeing violence in Syria, Vayntrub co-founded a website and social media movement called #CantDoNothing to spotlight the European migrant crisis.
