The Kaylee and Anya Doppelgänger

Ever since the FBI arrested members of an alleged (at this time) Russian spy ring, pictures of one of them, Anna “Anya” Chapman, have been released and they keep making me do double-takes. Why? Because she’s a dopplegänger for the actress Jewel Staite, who played Kaywinnet Lee “Kaylee” Frye in the series Firefly.

I know I’m not the only one to have noticed this (I’ve seen it on the “twitters”). Seeing them side-by-side, it’s easy to see how the confusion could take place. It’s also easy to see clear differences that make them look just similar and not in any way be clones. (But…come to think of it…they are both 28 and have we ever seen them together in the same place at the same time? Hmmmm….?)

Thing is, when they post a picture of Anya, not just this one, my first thought is that it’s of Jewel. Then I have to shift gears and realize this is just a boring ol’ spy story and not a story about the actress. Then I get disappointed. On the plus side, since the spy story broke, I’ve been watching more Firefly, which is never a bad thing.