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Jun 14, 2019 · Several celebrities are part of a male/female twinning duo, which only happens in one out of every 90 pregnancies. 40% of all twins born are boy/girl fraternal twins. One out of every 50 Americans have a twin brother or sister, and these famous people with twins are no exception. It is also...
- Luke and Leia, double Leos, horror kids, and more!
- Luke and Leia (Star Wars Skywalker Saga)
- Philippe Bourbon and King Louis XIV (The Man in the Iron Mask)
- Wanda and Pietro Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Hallie Parker and Annie James (The Parent Trap)
- Dr. Evil and Austin Powers (Austin Powers Trilogy)
- Fred and George Weasley (Harry Potter Franchise)
- Charlie and Donald Kaufman (Adaptation)
- Kit and Jiff Ramsey (Bowfinger)
- Chad and Alex Wagner (Double Impact)
By Matt Fowler
Updated: Aug 9, 2020 5:12 pm
Posted: Aug 1, 2020 8:16 pm
It's often said that twins share a special bond that original recipe siblings don't have. Famous for finishing each others sandwiches sentences, twins have also been known to inhabit a movie or two - from a crusading galactic duo connected by the Force to super-powered beings created in a lab by Hydra.
Ahead of Twins Days Weekend, we've compiled a list of the best and most notable movie twins around. Sometimes these characters are secret twins who don't even know of each others' existence while other times the two are inseparable warriors who always have each others' backs when battling evil. In rare occasions, the twins are mortal enemies, with one determining the other must die.
From Star Wars to Austin Powers to burgeoning Avengers, here are the best movie twins ever...
Perhaps the most famous cinematic twins of all time are Luke and Leia (Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher), the children of Anakin and Padme who were spirited away from their home, and each other, to protect them from the sinister clutches of The Galactic Empire. One raised a princess, the other a farmer, these two would be drawn together by fate, and t...
Leonardo DiCaprio played the identical twin roles of King Louis XIV and his brother, Phillippe, who was purposefully raised separately so he'd know nothing of his royal heritage and therefore never start a war for the throne. Once Phillippe was discovered, the corrupt and cruel Louis imprisoned his brother and kept him inside an iron mask to concea...
In the comics, Wanda and Pietro -- played by Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the MCU -- were the mutant children of Magneto (and Pietro/Peter still is in the X-Men movie franchise) but Marvel Studios had no access to mutants so instead these two, who were introduced fully in Avengers: Age of Ultron, were Sokovian protestors who voluntee...
Whether we're talking about the 1998 Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan, or the 1961 original starring Hayley Mills, this story, based on the 1949 German novel Lottie and Lisa, is one of the most famous twin stories ever as two identical young girls, who've been raised apart since birth never knowing they had a sister, meet up and cutely conspire t...
In a groovy homage to Luke and Leia's plot twist twineage, or even the Vader "I am your father" reveal, the Austin Powers movie franchise eventually revealed that Dr. Evil was Powers' long-lost twin brother. With both characters played by Mike Myers, of course, this was an example of twins being on opposite sides of the law and/or global conflict a...
Ah, the Weasley Twins. Two identical brothers, played by James and Oliver Phelps in all eight Harry Potter movies. Smart enough to drop out of Hogwarts to pursue their true calling - pranks! Opening the thriving Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes joke shop, the twins were called back to action and, as part of Dumbledore's Army, battled Voldemort and his Deat...
If you thought Nicholas Cage would miss out on the whole "acting opposite yourself" phenomenon, you're sorely mistaken. In Adaptation, Cage played a meta-version of writer/director Charlie Kaufman, as a sad and self-sabotaging artist, as well as his fictional twin brother, the confident and together Donald.
Eddie Murphy, who's no stranger to playing multiple roles in one movie, got to do the twin thing in Bowfinger, where he played a hugely successful, and paranoid, movie star named Kit as well as Kit's dorky brother Jiff who Steve Martin's character uses to double for Kit in a film he's shooting "around" Kit to make it seem like Kit's starring in his...
By 1991, Jean-Claude Van Damme had been a kickboxer, an undercover cop, and a cyborg - so why not twin brothers? Separated at birth to protect them from a crime lord, both Chad and Alex grew up to be martial arts experts. Chad as a laid-back instructor in Los Angeles and Alex as a gruff smuggler in Hong Kong.
Apr 26, 2024 · Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen (born June 13, 1986), also known as the Olsen twins as a duo, are American fashion designers and former child actresses. The twins made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television series Full House. At the age of six, Mary-Kate and Ashley began starring ...
Jun 13, 2022 · Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are still probably the most successful twins in the world. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in 2019. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images. The Olsen twins, who turn 36 on June 13 ...
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- Jacob and Esau: The First Most Famous Twins in History. While not very famous, they are the first twins to have been born. The story of these brothers have been tumultuous from the start as it’s said they struggled together in their mother’s womb, a possible foreshadowing of their relationship.
- Chang and Eng Bunker: Siamese Twins. Born on May 11, 1811, Chang and Eng Bunker were born connected by a piece of cartilage in the sternum. Since they were born in Siam, Thailand, they were given the name “Siamese twins.”
- Jenna and Barbara Bush. Dubbed as “The First Twins,” Jenna and Barbara Bush are the daughters of former U.S. president George W. Bush, who was elected back in 2000.
- Apollo and Artemis. The son and daughter of Leto and Zeus are two prominent and important figures in Greek mythology. Apollo is known as the god of light and truth, while also being a musician and is always seen with his golden lyre.
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Aug 11, 2022 · Together, the musclebound action star and the diminutive comedy legend earned a whopping $216 million at the box office, proving twins can provide two times the laughs and earn two times the cash ...
Twins (rendered in its title sequence logo as TWiiNS) is a 1988 American buddy comedy film produced and directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) who were separated at birth. The core of the film is the contrast between the streetwise Vincent (DeVito) and the intelligent but naive Julius ...
