BAD SHABBOS Trailer (2025) Milana Vayntrub, Comedy

BAD SHABBOS Trailer (2025) Milana Vayntrub, Comedy

BAD SHABBOS Trailer (2025) Milana Vayntrub, Kyra Sedgwick, Ashley Zukerman, Comedy
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Winner of the 2024 Tribeca Audience Award, this fast-paced comedy follows a New York Sabbath dinner that spirals hilariously out of control as several generations of modern Jews grapple with the tensions between secular and religious life – all while contending with a dead body in the bathroom.

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Director: Daniel Robbins
Producers: Adam Mitchell
Screenwriter: Daniel Robbins, Zack Weiner
Cinematographers: Matt Clegg
Editor: Kait Plum
Music: Eli Keszler
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2024
Running Time: 84 minutes
Awards: Audience Award, Narrative, Tribeca Film Festival
Primary Company: Menemsha Films
Set in the well-heeled part of New York’s Upper West Side Jewish community, Tribeca Festival audience award winner “Bad Shabbos” is an entertaining, fast-paced comedy about a Sabbath dinner gone terribly awry. After four previous indie features, director Daniel Robbins should score wider distribution with this tender look at several generations of modern Jews trying to balance the polarities of secular and religious lives, along with the dilemma of a dead body in the bathroom. Robbins and his longtime co-writer Zack Weiner up the comedy ante by stirring in several dysfunctional family dramas, an inter-faith culture clash and an intrepid doorman. A strong ensemble cast nails the tasty dialogue and increasingly frantic action without falling into shtick.

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David (Jon Bass) and his fiancée Meg (Meghan Leathers), a shiksa already deep into conversion class, are headed for another Friday Sabbath dinner at the home of his parents, Richard (David Paymer) and Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick). But tonight is different from all other nights because Meg’s Catholic parents from Wisconsin, John (John Bedford Lloyd) and Beth (Catherine Curtin), are due for a first meeting with his family. “Are they good with Shabbat?” David asks anxiously. “They know to expect some prayers and to keep their phones in their pockets,” retorts Meg.

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David’s well-founded anxiety isn’t just about what his future in-laws will think of his loud and argumentative parents and Sabbath customs, but also encompasses fears about added complications from the other guests. His maladjusted younger brother Adam (Theo Taplitz), who is at least one Klonopin away from serenity, does not get along with their sister Abby’s (Milana Vayntrub) philandering boyfriend Benjamin (Ashley Zukerman). Whenever the two are in the same vicinity, not-so-innocent remarks from the older man send Adam off the deep end. Meanwhile, Meg still has to deal with hostility from the controlling Ellen, who thinks a convert just isn’t good enough and isn’t shy about letting Meg know.

With the Wisconsinites running late, things in Richard and Ellen’s beautifully furnished flat go south rather rapidly when one of the guests has a fatal accident in the powder room. As the Gelfand clan variously freak out and ponder what to do next, valiant doorman Jordan (an endearing turn by the WuTang Clan’s Cliff “Method Man” Smith) comes to the rescue with a plan. But the midwestern guests of honor arrive just at the wrong moment.

Robbins proves himself a dab hand at directing physical comedy as tension and bad behavior escalate around the dining table. Once again, Jordan comes to the rescue, albeit in disguise. “Ever hear of Ethopian Jews?” he asks John and Beth. As Meg proves herself to be not only a cool head during a crisis, but a great interpreter of the Torah, she starts to win Ellen over, but further twists are yet to come.

Grounded in its Upper West Side location, including a glimpse of Zabar’s and a stop at Barney Greengrass, the sturgeon king, the film benefits from Robbins and Weiner’s knowledge of and affection for their milieu. A minimal but aptly used jazzy score by Eli Keszler and on-screen titles indicating how soon the next doorman (a stern Alok Tewari) will come on shift, ups the comic tension.
As if their weekly shabbat gathering wasn’t already a reason for them to all start kvetching, imagine what happens when a Jewish family from Manhattan’s Upper West Side accidentally murders one of their dinner guests. Or when their future and very goy-ish in-laws try to pronounce the word “chutzpah.” Or when the Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man shows up wearing a yarmulke.

These are some of the shandas (that’s Yiddish for scandals, disgraces, shames, etc.) in Bad Shabbos, an ensemble comedy set during one long and volatile Friday night get-together that leaves a body fresh on the ground and ready for shiva.

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Bad Shabbos
The Bottom Line
Manhattan muydah mystery.
Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (Spotlight Narrative)
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer, Meghan Leathers
Director: Daniel Robbins
Screenwriters: Zack Weiner, Daniel Robbins
1 hour 24 minutes
Directed by Daniel Robbins (Pledge), who co-wrote the script with Zack Weiner, the film is rather familiar in conception and execution, even if it concentrates on the very narrow community of upper-class Manhattanites that most of us know from the films of Woody Allen. Some of Allen’s humor is on display here, though Bad Shabbos is more prone to narrative hijinks and a few over-the-top plot twists.

Off the bat, you have to accept the fact that the Gelfands, as they’re called, are willing to do anything to cover up the untimely death that suddenly occurs in their apartment, whereas simply calling the police and fessing up would have been the better option. But this is not your average family.

The mother, Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick), is a micromanaging, passive-aggressive control freak. The father, Richard (David Paymer), is a charming if soppy patriarch, and certainly the most Allen-esque character. The eldest son, David (Jon Bass), is for the most part calm and clearheaded, whereas his teenage brother, Adam (Theo Taplitz), is a neurodivergent shut-in with a major Klonopin dependance. Meanwhile, their sister, Abby (Milana Vayntrub), is in the midst of a breakup with d-baggy banker Benjamin (Ashley Zukerman), who shows up for shabbat with plenty of bad vibes.

Luckily, Benjamin quickly gets offed by Adam — who slips laxatives into his drink as a prank — in the film’s first 15 minutes, leaving the family to deal with the fallout. Afraid their youngest will be charged with murder, the clan hatches a plan to conceal the alleged crime, though they really have no idea what they’re doing. While all this is happening, David’s beloved fiancé, Meg (Meghan Leathers), who hails from Wisconsin and had decided to convert to Judaism, is on hand to witness the chaos. And her parents (John Bedford Lloyd, Catherine Curtin) are about to show up to join everyone for supper.

If you recall the scene in Annie Hall where the dinners between Allen’s Brooklyn family and Diane Keaton’s very WASP-ish Midwestern family are contrasted to perfect comic effect, you can imagine what happens when Meg’s family finally encounters the Gelfands. By this point in the story, Benjamin’s dead body has been lying on the bathroom floor for a few hours, with everyone freaking out and trying to find a way to get rid of it. They eventually decide to turn it into a “New York death,” whereby the banker’s corpse will be transplanted back to his apartment and hopefully discovered days later by a neighbor.

Totally unable to do this on their own, they enlist their friendly doorman Jordan (Cliff “Method Man” Smith), who claims to know how to handle any situation but seems way out of his league as well. Yet compared to the anxiety-ridden, prayer-spewing, Kosher-wine-slugging, constantly arguing Gelfands, Jordan comes across as a master of pragmatism. At one point, he even dons a kippah to pretend to Meg’s parents that he’s just another regular at this off-the-wall shabbat.

If you’ve been waiting your whole life to hear Method Man say: “It’s Shabbos, baby!” then this may be the movie for you.

Robbins and co-scribe Weiner previously collaborated on both horror and comedy flicks, including Pledge and Citizen Weiner. They know how to deliver a solid genre programmer and a few genuine laughs — especially a gag involving challah bread — but other parts of Bad Shabbos feel a bit too broad and formulaic, lacking a distinct voice.

The better bits tend to be Judaic-centric, such as the moment where the converting Meg refers to the Torah as a “prequel,” which is not the best thing to tell one’s future Jewish mother-in-law. Another gag involves the highly unstable Adam’s idolatry for the IDF — a joke that was clearly conceived before the current Israel-Hamas War.

Full credits
Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (Spotlight Narrative)
Production company: Carnegie Hill Productions
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer, Meghan Leathers
Director: Daniel Robbins
Screenwriters: Zack Weiner, Daniel Robbins
Producer: Adam Mitchell
Executive producers: Derek Rubin, Irina Dashevsky, Ross Saxon, Riccardo Maddalosso
Cinematographer: Matt Clegg
Production designer: Lily Guerin
Costume designer: Neil Atherton
Editor: Kait Plum
Composer: Eli Keszler
Casting directors: Cody Beke, Daniel Frankel, Seth White
Sales: UTA
1 hour 24 minutes
Bad Shabbos is going to go down in cinematic history as one of the funniest films to ever take place during a Shabbos dinner.

Meeting the family that your child is marrying into can be stressful. The stress only increases is a child is converting and said family is a religious Jewish family. Let’s not kid ourselves–it is a stressful event for everyone! Add accidental manslaughter into the mix and just about anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Maybe it’s just my sense of humor but once the laughs start up, they never stop! If I watched it by myself, I can only imagine how the audience would respond in a communal environment.

David (Jon Bass) is engaged to Meg (Meghan Leathers). Meg is undergoing a Jewish conversion because it’s important to David and his family. Her Catholic parents, John (John Bedford Lloyd) and Beth (Catherine Curtain), are traveling from Milwaukee to meet David’s family so it’s a really big deal. David’s parents, Richard and Ellen, are hosting for the evening. Abby (Milana Vayntrub) and her boyfriend, Benjamin (Ashley Zukerman), come over and there’s some tension between them. Youngest brother Adam (Theo Taplitz), a wannabe IDF soldier, still lives with his parents. The doorman, Jordan (Cliff “Method Man” Smith), is the type of doorman that knows their Jewish residents. Josh Mostel (Zero’s son) and Stephen Singer also make cameo appearances.

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The film’s Tribeca premiere comes at a very trying time for the Jewish community. The community has been hurting since the October 7 attack. At the same time, anti-Jewish hate is continuing to skyrocket across the globe. To say that the laughs in this film are much-needed is not an understatement. Gallows humor is especially in right now, which helps explain why this film hits with me more so than the films that are just missing at the moment. This isn’t to say anything about one’s personal tastes. If anything, it probably says more about how much I need comedies–especially good Jewish comedies–at the moment. It really is my type of comedy as filmmaker Daniel Robbins borrows from the best of them. The director’s notes cites Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Neil Simon, etc. as influences.

Do I have issues with the Jewish rituals in the film? Usually, I would but one gets the sense that they want John and Beth out of their condo apartment as quickly as possible? Wouldn’t you? I’m not going to get into the specifics of what happens but again, their family stress only increases the humor in the situation. After all, it is a not a good Shabbos but a Bad Shabbos! Outside of that, all the major objects are on display somewhere between a Chanukiah and mezzuzot. The family keeps kosher and Shabbos so if I had to make a guess, they are somewhere between Conservative and Conservadox.

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As far as the Upper West Side goes, the film is an authentic portrayal of what the UWS has to offer. I know New York Jews, I’ve met New York Jews, and this film is essentially a New York Jewish comedy. The only exception being that Shabbos and Yom Tov meals do not include accidental manslaughter. It is not something that is usually on the menu for Shabbos evening. Anyway, they film on location at Barney Greengrass so owner Gary Greengrass has a small role in the film. If you’re a fan of You’ve Got Mail, the lobby will look familiar. The actual apartment itself is elsewhere in a high-rise on 81st Street–chances are likely that I saw it from a distance in March while eating lunch.

Robbins and co-writer Zack Weiner previously teamed up on Citizen Weiner, which premiered at Slamdance this year. After watching this film, I’m now curious to watch it. But again, this one is a home run in my book.

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Bad Shabbos takes the best of classic comedies and updates it for today, making it the hysterical Jewish content that is necessary right now. Whichever distributor acquires this film is going to have a hit on its hands! Okay, so it’ll probably be a niche hit with Jewish audiences but there’s still something here for audiences to enjoy!

DIRECTOR: Daniel Robbins
SCREENWRITERS: Zack Weiner & Daniel Robbins
CAST: Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Milana Vayntrub, Theo Taplitz, Ashley Zukerman, Catherine Curtain, John Bedford Lloyd, with David Paymer and Kyra Sedgwick
Bad Shabbos Review
Bad Shabbos (2024) Film Review from the 23rd Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Daniel Robbins, written by Zack Weiner and Daniel Robbins, and starring Milana Vayntrub, Meghan Leathers, Method Man, David Paymer, Kyra Sedgwick, Ashley Zukerman, Jon Bass, Catherine Curtin, John Bedford Lloyd, Josh Mostel, Alok Tewari, Stephen Singer, Theo Taplitz, Gary Greengrass, and Martha Epstein.

Director Daniel Robbins creates a New York comedy unlike any other with the laugh-out-loud crowd-pleaser, Bad Shabbos. This movie will catch you by surprise. There are some big name performers in it but they are mostly character actors, not major movie stars. However, this is truly a major production with some of the funniest scenes you’ll see at the movies this year. Robbins, who co-wrote the film, has a flair for absurdly comical humor that plays like gangbusters this time around. I’m not sure any of it is believable but you’ll have faith in the movie’s humor once you start laughing– and you won’t stop laughing any time soon once the movie’s story line begins to unfold.

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As the film opens, we are informed shabbos is that time period of rest between Friday night and Saturday night. This movie is not about a period of peaceful rest but, instead, is a gem of a comedy packed with witty and sarcastic humor that Robbins drives home and then some thanks to some terrific performances. The first scene is that of a body falling in front of two pedestrians and the film flashes back to several hours earlier. Jon Bass plays David who has a serious girlfriend named Meg (Meghan Leathers). Benjamin (Ashley Zukerman) is seeing Abby (Milana Vayntrub, the hilarious spokesperson in those funny AT&T commercials) and the two drive in to see the folks, Richard (David Paymer) and Ellen (Kyra Sedgwick). Let’s not mention they were supposed to Uber it there, not drive in.

Richard and Ellen’s apartment has a door man named Jordan (Method Man) who gets along really well with the Jewish family, headed by Paymer. Just for the record, Paymer and Sedgwick worked together at least once before in 1993’s gem, Heart and Souls. Ellen shows a little interest that Meg is taking courses to change her religion from Christianity to Judaism for her newfound romance. Meg loves David a lot but all hell soon breaks loose. A burn-out family member, Adam (Theo Taplitz) slips Benjamin an overdose of laxatives. Benjamin heads to the bathroom to relieve himself but falls and hits his head, almost instantaneously dying. Well, he may have had a chance at survival but Adam doesn’t tell anyone for quite a while just how long Benjamin’s been in the bathroom without saying a word. Could he be dead? Affirmative.

So, when the family finally discovers Benjamin is dead one member at a time, the action becomes ridiculously hilarious as the desperate crew soon do anything and everything to figure out what to do next. The real surprise is when the door man, Jordan, becomes embroiled in the action with results that will have audiences laughing in the aisles. Jordan not only becomes a participant in the activities, he does so in a way that is both genius and wildly enjoyable.

The cast is uniformly excellent with Paymer proving that he’s always been one of our most underrated character actors. Watch the scene where he tries to cover up that there’s blood on a key character’s shirt and Richard starts engaging in a (supposedly religious) chant that will, like many other scenes in this picture, inspire plenty of laughs. There are so many one-liners and quirky quips here that the viewer will be in their glory. Vayntrub is also charismatic as Abby who admits she didn’t really love Benjamin but must pretend everything is OK to David’s potential in-laws. When Method Man’s Jordan assumes the role of the deceased Benjamin, the movie pulls out all the stops and veers into comedy classic territory. Method Man almost steals the movie.

Meghan Leathers is immensely likable as is Jon Bass as her soon-to-be husband. Kyra Sedgwick gets some moments to really stand-out too. One smart and funny scene has Meg correct Ellen who assumes Meg took her religious conversion classes on-line when they were, indeed, taken in-person. There is so much rich detail in the humor that the makers of Bad Shabbos should be commended in almost every possible way.

There are very few flaws to mention here. This film only really comes up short in its portrayal of Adam who doesn’t really seem to get any major scoldings for eventually giving Benjamin the laxatives which led to his death. At under 90-minutes, the film feels like it runs out of energy a bit towards the end too. Still, the material we do get presented with is of the highest quality and the laughs come at a fast, rapid-fire pace.

Bad Shabbos has something great in it for every comedy fan. Heck, even Josh Mostel pops up for a cameo. Daniel Robbins has emerged as an incredibly funny and talented filmmaker. The confinement to pretty much a single setting is wonderfully carried out in this movie as well. Bad Shabbos is nothing short of a miraculously funny movie which doesn’t sugarcoat its zany premise and pulls out all the stops in such a way that the majority of audiences will simply love it. It’s one of this year’s Tribeca’s major finds thus far.
Bad Shabbos
Directed by Daniel Robbins
Screenplay by
Zack Weiner
Daniel Robbins
Produced by Adam Mitchell
Starring
Kyra Sedgwick
Method Man
Jon Bass
Milana Vayntrub
Cinematography Matt Clegg
Edited by Kait Plum
Music by Eli Keszler
Production
company
Carnegie Hill Entertainment
Release date
10 June 2024 (Tribeca Festival)[1]
Running time 84 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $70,592[2][3]
Bad Shabbos is a 2024 American comedy film directed by Daniel Robbins and written by Robbins and Zack Weiner. The film stars Kyra Sedgwick as the matriarch of a Jewish family as tensions come to a head during a Shabbos dinner. It debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Audience Award.[1][4]

Premise
Over the course of a Shabbos dinner in New York City, an unexpected death causes familial tensions to rise to the surface.[1]

Cast
Kyra Sedgwick as Ellen
Method Man as Jordan
Jon Bass as David
Milana Vayntrub as Abby
Ashley Zukerman as Benjamin
David Paymer as Richard
Meghan Leathers as Meg
Catherine Curtin as Beth
Theo Taplitz as Adam
John Bedford Lloyd as John
Josh Mostel as Saul
Release
Bad Shabbos premiered on June 10, 2024, in the Spotlight Narrative section of that year's Tribeca Festival.[1][5]

Reception
Accolades
Award Ceremony date Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Tribeca Festival 16 June 2024 Audience Award Bad Shabbos Won [6]
References
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External links
Bad Shabbos at IMDb
Categories: 2024 films2024 comedy filmsAmerican comedy filmsJewish comedy and humor
Milana Vayntrub
Милана Вайнтруб

Vayntrub in 2019
Born Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub
March 8, 1987 (age 37)[1][2]
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality American
Alma mater University of California, San Diego (BA)
Occupation(s) Actress, comedian, activist
Years active 1995–present
Known for Playing saleswoman Lily Adams in a series of AT&T television commercials
Children 1[3]
Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (/ˈvaɪntruːb/ VYNE-troob, Russian: Милана Александровна Вайнтруб;[4] 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 AT&T 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 Yahoo! Screen science fiction comedy Other Space (2015) and had a recurring role on the NBC drama This Is Us (2016–2017). Vayntrub has also voiced Squirrel Girl in the Marvel Rising franchise since 2018 after being cast as the character in the unaired television pilot for New Warriors.

Early life and education
Milana Vayntrub was born on March 8, 1987, to a secular Ashkenazi Jewish family in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then a Soviet republic.[5][6] When she was two years old, she and her parents immigrated to the United States as refugees from antisemitism,[7] settling in West Hollywood, California. She started acting in Mattel Barbie commercials at the age of five, in part to mitigate her family's financial problems. Vayntrub dropped out of Beverly Hills High School after her sophomore year, obtained a GED, and went on to earn a BA in Communication from University of California, San Diego.[8] She studied improv comedy with the Upright Citizens Brigade.[9][10]

Career

Vayntrub in 2012
Vayntrub made her acting debut appearing in three episodes of the NBC television series ER in 1995.[11] She and Stevie Nelson teamed up to start the YouTube comedy channel Live Prude Girls where they produced a number of shorts.[9] Live Prude Girls went on to be featured on NewMediaRockstars' Top 100 Channels countdown, ranked at number 93.[12] Vayntrub has had small roles in film and television, including Life Happens and Silicon Valley.[13] She has also starred in several CollegeHumor videos.[10]

From 2013 to 2016, Vayntrub portrayed a saleswoman named Lily Adams in a series of TV commercials for AT&T.[10] She returned to the role in 2020.[14] She also portrayed Tina Shukshin as a series regular on the Yahoo! Screen series Other Space, created by Paul Feig, in 2015. The following year, she appeared in Feig's Ghostbusters reboot alongside Other Space cast members Neil Casey, Eugene Cordero, Bess Rous, and Karan Soni. Between 2016 and 2017, she appeared in the television series This Is Us, playing Sloane Sandburg.[11] In July 2017, Vayntrub was cast in the lead role of Marvel Comics superheroine Squirrel Girl in the New Warriors television pilot for Freeform.[15] Freeform ultimately passed on the series that November, and despite attempts to move the series to another network, it was ultimately cancelled.[16][17] Despite the series' cancellation, Vayntrub voiced Squirrel Girl in the Marvel Rising franchise.[18] She reprised the role for a six-episode scripted podcast from Marvel and Sirius XM titled Marvel's Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show.[19][20] Also in 2017, Vayntrub starred in the Eko interactive streaming television series That Moment When as Jill.[21]

She starred in the film Mother's Little Helpers in 2019, which premiered at South by Southwest.[22] In April 2020, Comedy Central's YouTube channel released three sketches starring Vayntrub and Akilah Hughes as part of a new digital sketch series called Making Fun With Akilah and Milana.[23] She starred in the Quibi streaming television series Die Hart and in the short film The Shabbos Goy as Hannah, both released in July 2020.[24][25] In 2022, she also played a leading role in Comedy Central's television film Out of Office.

Activism
In January 2016, after visiting Greece and meeting with refugee families fleeing the Syrian Civil War, Vayntrub co-founded a website and social media movement called "Can't Do Nothing" to spotlight the European migrant crisis.[9]

Vayntrub is pro-abortion rights, and she has stated that she aborted a pregnancy as a college student due to financial concerns.[26]

Personal life
In 2020, Vayntrub was subjected to a wave of online sexual harassment, 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.[27] Vayntrub asked for the harassment to stop in an Instagram live stream, saying, "I'm hurting and it's bringing up, like, a lot of feelings of sexual assault."[27]

Vayntrub is married and has a son, but has chosen to keep both of their names private.[26][3]

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes
2011 Life Happens Tanya
2012 Junk Natasha
2015 Wrestling Isn't Wrestling The Ultimate Warrior Short film
2016 Ghostbusters Subway Rat Woman
2019 Mother's Little Helpers Lucy Pride Also co-writer and co-producer
2020 The Shabbos Goy Hannah Short film
2021 Werewolves Within Cecily
2024 Bad Shabbos Abby
2026 Project Hail Mary Annie Shapiro Post-production
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1995 ER Tatiana 3 episodes
1997 Days of Our Lives Young Kristen
2001–2002 Lizzie McGuire Posse Member #1 / Cute Burper / Dancer 3 episodes
2004 The Division Katerina Ominsky Episode: "Acts of Desperation"
2012 The League Milana Episode: "The Hoodie"
2013 Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous Felcia Episode: "Zach Stone Is Gonna Get Wild"
Food Network Star Video Caller Episode: "4th of July Live"
Key & Peele Vampire Episode: "Sexy Vampires"
2014 House of Lies Christy 2 episodes
Californication Bad Actress Episode: "Like Father Like Son"
2014, 2016 Silicon Valley Tara 2 episodes
2015 Other Space Tina Shukshin 8 episodes
2016 Love Natalie 2 episodes
2016, 2017 @midnight Herself 7 episodes (July 22, August 17, 18, December 14 & February 13, 2017, March 29 & 30, 2017)
2016–2017 This Is Us Sloane Sandburg 8 episodes
2017 That Moment When Jill 7 episodes
2018 Marvel Rising: Initiation Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl Voice role; Television short
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors[18] Voice role; Television film
New Warriors Unaired pilot
I Love You, America Brambi Streeter Episode: "Steve Schmidt"
Dallas & Robo Ellie (voice) 8 episodes
2018–2021 Robot Chicken Peppa Pig, Dino Daughter, Teenage Girl Voice role; 3 episodes
2019 Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl Voice role; Television short
Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron
Marvel Rising: Battle of the Bands
Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri
Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire
2020 Die Hart Leah 2 episodes
2022 Out of Office Eliza Television film
2024 Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story Pam Bozanich 2 episodes
Web
Year Title Role Notes
2011–2014 CollegeHumor Originals Various characters 15 Episodes
2011–2013 Live Prude Girls (YouTube) Herself, various characters 36 Episodes
2012 Daddy Knows Best Nancy Episode: "Game Night"
2016 Jake and Amir Present: Lonely and Horny Elana 1 Episode
2019 Marvel Rising: Ultimate Comics Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl Episode 3: "Squirrel Girl"
2020 Making Fun With Akilah and Milana Herself 3 videos[23]
2022 Marvel's Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl 6 episodes
2023 Dirty Laundry Herself Season 2, Episode 10
2024 Um, Actually Herself Season 9, Episode 9
Music videos
Year Title Artist Notes
2007 "Can't Be Saved" Senses Fail
2011 "Teenage Tide" Letting Up Despite Great Faults
2019 "Hungry Child" Hot Chip
Video games
Year Title Role Notes
2022 God of War Ragnarök Lúnda
2024 Marvel Rivals Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl
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Backstage Staff (July 23, 2014). "The Third Annual Backstage 30: 28. Milana Vayntrub". Backstage. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
Keys, Lisa. "The AT&T Girl's surprising call to action". stljewishlight. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
Shalayne Pulia (July 19, 2017). "This Is Us Star Milana Vayntrub Shares Her Refugee Story". InStyle. Archived from the original on July 21, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
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