Andy Samberg shares new twist in his mom’s adoption story

Andy Samberg recently opened up about a surprising discovery connected to his mother Marjorie’s adoption.

Speaking on Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang, Samberg described a moment that felt "like from a movie."

Back in 2019, the two appeared on the show Finding Your Roots, where Marjorie, who was adopted, learned the identities of her biological parents.

Her birth mother was a German-Jewish refugee, and her father an Italian immigrant. She also discovered a number of half-siblings and cousins on both sides of her family.

What Samberg shared now is a striking coincidence that emerged after the show aired. Both sides of his mother’s biological family had, independently, located the same photograph, a dated image of her parents together during their brief romance in San Francisco in 1946. Neither side had known the other existed until the show aired.

“They both found the same picture of them together,” Samberg recalled. He suggested that someone had kept the photo in the hope that Marjorie might one day reconnect with her roots.

He also noted that tracing her origins was complicated by the fact that she was adopted through the Louise Wise agency, which was later revealed to have withheld or falsified records in many adoptions.

Now in her 70s, Marjorie has since met multiple biological relatives. Samberg said the photo discovery brought his mother unexpected joy and a sense of peace she hadn’t thought possible.