Samantha Esteban and Janina Gavankar famous twin look alikes



Samantha Esteban and Janina Gavankar

On the left is Samantha Esteban while on the right is Janina Gavankar.

Samantha Esteban was born Samantha Marie Becker on October 25th 1979 in Charolotte,North Carolina, USA. Samantha Esteban is also know as Samantha Becker she is 5 5 fee tall. She found her way to Hollywood via San Diego, California, via Bangor, Maine. At an early age, she found discipline in martial arts, and the love of performing in dance and theatre. Acting on television and in movies came to follow. She played the role of ‘Stacy’ in the ’92 Polygram Film “Summer Camp”, then booked a bit part in “The Brady Bunch” movie. In ’95, she landed her first big television gig as a 4 year series regular on _”Saved By The Bell: The New Class”(1993)_ playing the feisty ‘Maria Lopez’. Several other appearances on sitcoms and TV dramas kept her working. In 2001 she was privileged to work opposite Oscar award-winning Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, and Cliff Curtis, in the feature film Training Day (2001), playing the pivotal role of ‘Letty’. Also in 2004 she worked with Christian Bale in the film “Harsh Times”, which was directed and written by David Ayer, who wrote “Training Day”. In a magazine interview, Samantha Esteban described her ethnicity as “Filipino, American Indian, Spanish and a mix of other races.”Her Native American heritage derives from the tribe Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada and northeastern United States.

Janina Gavankar was born Janina Zione Gavankar on November 29th, 1980 in Joliet, Illinois, USA. She stands 5′ 7″ tall. She is an American actress and musician. Janina Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Janina Gavankar is known for her more notable roles as: Papi, a lesbian lothario in The L Word; Leigh Turner, a cop with a big secret on The Gates; Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who comments about the user’s searches. Ms. Dewey was a viral marketing campaign started by Microsoft in October 2006. It also refers to the character of the same name, who is the campaign’s main subject. The Ms. Dewey website was an Adobe Flash-based experimental interface for Live Search. The interface features a modern-looking cityscape as a backdrop with the character on the left side, while the search results appear on the right; Shiva (Shivakamini Somakandarkram) on TV series The League; Luna Garza a shapeshifter on HBO’s True Blood; and recently McKenna Hall on The CW’s Arrow. She also had a small appearance in the 2002 movie Barbershop as a fine (lovely) woman. She regularly appears in Funny or Die videos. In 2006 she joined the cast of The L Word as a series regular, and shot all of the clips used for Ms. Dewey. In 2007, she landed a lead in CW pilot Dash 4 Cash. In 2008, Janina Gavankar appeared in TV series Stargate Atlantis, Grey’s Anatomy and NCIS, My Boys, and Factory. In 2009, she appeared in the TV shows The Cleaner, Dollhouse, Three Rivers, and The League, as well as indie movies Men, Interrupted, Indian Gangster, and Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey. She played the voice of “Nikki” in Quantum Quest. She landed a lead role in the now-canceled ABC Television supernatural drama The Gates. She appears on CW’s Arrow as a former flame to Oliver Queen. Janina Gavankar is an admitted gamer and has appeared on, as well as co-hosted, G4 TV’s Attack of the Show!, Epileptic Gaming’s Up All Night, where she helped review Rock Band, Burnout Paradise, and Army of Two. As of 2011 Janina Gavankar has become a series regular in HBO’s True Blood. She plays a public school teacher and shapeshifter named Luna Garza, who gets romantically involved with Sam Merlotte, one of the main characters of the series and fello shapeshifter. Her indie movie Satellite of Love premiered at the Dallas International Film Festival in 2012, and her 2012 indie I’m Afraid of Virginia Wolf is currently in post production. On December 20th 2012, Janina Gavankar was the last person interviewed for the now cancelled Attack of the Show! which aired on G4 TV. On August 3rd, 2013, it was announced that Janina Gavankar landed a role as witch Tessa in the fifth season of The Vampire Diaries. Janina Gavankar guest starred in the third season of the acclaimed sitcom Husbands. Janina Gavankar had returned to music with a cover of Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown”. Janina Gavankar’s former all female singing group, Endera, was signed to Cash Money Records Universal Records. She also collaborated on a project for a song called “Tell Me What” in India with Pratichee Mohapatra of Viva, Deep, and Navraaz. She has had songs licensed to movies and television, and has sung and played marimba on film scores. Janina Gavankar was featured in Russian artist Ella Leya’s music video for “Wish I Could”, in the San Francisco band Recliner’s music video for their single “Float Away”, as well as the music video for Manu Narayan’s band Darunam. In August 2012, she released the single for her upcoming EP, entitled Waiting for Godot, and in November, Billboard premiered the official music video. Janina Gavankar claims to be the first actor to use Twitter, signing up on Richard Branson’s computer on Necker Island in 2006. She was the personification of Microsoft’s interactive search engine Ms. Dewey. In 2011 she created a free template for actors and artists to help them control their online presence and in 2012, spoke at the Suits and Spooks Conference about how she discovered a solution for data challenges faced by actors through the use of open source tools. In 2008, she was nominated for an Asian Excellence Award. In 2012, Janina Gavankar received the Gravity Summit Award for Excellence in Social Media.

Janina Gavankar is also the Grandniece of Mangesh Desai. Mangesh Desai (1923-1985) was a Re-recordist. A Re-recordist is a person who does the process by which the audio track of a film or video production is created. He was Bollywood’s biggest star, says Reliance Entertainment chairman Amit Khanna. His work ranged from Satyajit Ray’s Ghare Baire to Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. Cans would fly in the air, tempers would run high, but the best directors would still beat a path to the Raj Kamal Studios, wanting the very particular Mangesh Desai to mix their film. His theory of organic sound influenced several directors, from Subhash Ghai to Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Samantha Esteban and Janina Gavankar famous twin look alikes. Samantha Esteban and Janina Gavankar are Asian women that look alike. Samantha Esteban Filipino roots and Janina Gavankar Asian ancestry you can seem some striking similarities from skin color, to hair and physical features.