Bordier contacted Futerman in 2013, after a friend stumbled upon a YouTube video of the young actress. I was pretty excited, like, omigod, this could be my twin.” Anaïs Bordier holds up a photo of herself and Samantha Futerman (CFA’09), the identical twin sister she didn’t know she had. For adoptees, she explains, the past has so many missing pieces, “you have to be open to new expectations and new opportunities.” Besides, “it was all too crazy not to be true. “Don’t freak out…Lots of love, Anaïs.”įuterman was also born in Busan, and she was adopted. “My name is Anaïs, I am French and live in London.” A friend had stumbled upon one of Futerman’s YouTube videos and thought the two “looked really similar…like…VERY REALLY SIMILAR.” Bordier invited Futerman to check out her photos and videos, where the resemblance was more obvious, and offered other key details: she was born in Busan, South Korea, on November 19, 1987. And I accepted her friend request because, why not?”īordier’s message was “too sincere to be a joke,” Futerman says. “We had similar tastes, similar activities, everything. “We looked exactly alike,” Futerman says. She tapped the image-funny, they shared a birthdate-and clicked around a bit more. “I thought it was an old head shot of mine,” she says.

As her friend painted her nails, Futerman fiddled with her phone and saw a request on Facebook from a young woman named Anaïs Bordier.

That morning, Futerman (CFA’09) discovered she had an identical twin sister more than 5,000 miles away.įuterman learned the extraordinary news in the most ordinary way: by social media. But the red carpet walk, the screening, and the celebrities would not be the most memorable part of her day. On February 21, she made her way to a friend’s apartment to have her nails done for the premiere of her new film, the comedy 21 & Over. In 2013, Samantha Futerman was a 25-year-old actress in LA, with two waitressing jobs, a YouTube channel, and a major release on her IMDb bio.

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