Netflix viewers have been left gobsmacked after the realised that Vivian in new drama series Inventing Anna is the same person who played little Vada Sultenfuss in 1991 Hollywood movie My Girl.
Actress Anna Chlumsky plays journalist Vivian Kent, who investigates the mysterious socialite Anna Delvey.
Vivian is based on the real-life journalist Jessica Pressler, who wrote the bombshell article How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People from the New York magazine.
Actress Anna, 41, got her start as a child star and played Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl in 1991 and its sequel in 1994.
And when Netflix viewers realised she was Vada but all grown up, they couldn’t believe it.
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One person said on Twitter: “Aww the girl from My Girl hasn’t changed a damn bit.”
Another wrote: “My favourite from My Girl is in Inventing Anna!? Yes!”
A third said: “This woman having the same facial expressions from My Girl is really irking me.”
Someone else said: “OMG I didn’t know Anna Chlumsky was in this? I loved her in My Girl when I was growing up. Ugh she is fantastic.”
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And a fifth added: “Just realising the reporter on Inventing Anna is the actress from My Girl OMG she looks the same LOL.”
Inventing Anna, which dropped on Netflix on February 11, stars Ozark’s Julia Garner as the titular character.
Orange is the New Black’s Laverne Cox and Scandal stars Katie Lowes and Jeff Perry are also on the cast.
The drama series, which is based on real life, follows Anna Sorokin – or Anna Delvey as she was known – and her rise in the New York social scene before she was eventually arrested for allegedly defrauding banks, hotels and friends for a total of $275,000 (£203k) in 2017.
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She was eventually convicted in 2019 of multiple counts of attempted grand larceny (the unlawful theft of the personal property of a business or person), larceny in the second degree and theft of services.
Russian Anna claimed to be a wealthy German heiress who wanted to open a private members’ club in New York.
She rose through the ranks of New York’s social scene, though before long people grew suspicious of her behaviour and reported her to police when she didn’t pay up for services including hotel stays and private jets.
Inventing Anna is available to stream on Netflix
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