Mila McCoy was born in a small town, Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast, USSR. When she was two years old her family moved to Siberia. She started acting at the age of five, doing local plays. At the age of 17, Mila entered one of Saint Petersburg colleges, where she got her bachelor degree in Public Relations. Mila graduated with honors, and got a job at a Siberian TV station, but several months after that she made a decision to move to U.S. Working different jobs, and thinking about what to do next, Mila signed up for an acting class, just for fun. Since then, she was in local and multi-regional commercials, print ad, industrial videos, features and short films.