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| 6 | There are times when [[MakingUseOfTheTwin one person is played by a set of twins]], and there are times when a set of twins are played by twins (or triplets, etc.). What's rarer is when a pair of twins are played by the same person. |
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| 8 | Of course, there are more actors without twins than there are pairs of twins who are both actors. Finding a pair that are identical enough and are both suitable for the part may be very hard and much more effort than just the one. |
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| 10 | Reasons for casting this way include when on {{long runners}} the twin reveal is a plot device thought up for an already developed character later on, and the actor hasn't got a twin. Other times, the production really wanted to hire a certain actor because of their marketability or skill massively outweighing pairs of twins that auditioned. Necessarily they are AlwaysIdenticalTwins. The role in the story may take the form of the BackupTwin. |
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| 12 | However, though it may seem as though you could save money by hiring one actor to play two parts, it may cost ''more''. If the twins ever interact then you're going to need to hire at least one other person to be a stand-in (and spend a lot of time finding someone who looks like the twin actor) as well as spend twice as long filming these scenes. You're also going to be paying the actor for two roles, not one. Still, the availability of twin-less actors plus their appeal may start saving the production money and bring in more viewers, so earning the money back more. As well as that, some specialist acting agencies for twins ramp up the hiring cost because of the scarcity of genuine twin roles and/or actors. |
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| 14 | A form of ActingForTwo and usually achieved via DoubleVision. The opposite of MakingUseOfTheTwin. |
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| 16 | There can also be InUniverse examples, for when there is a ShowWithinAShow. If a character pretends to have a twin that's the FakeTwinGambit. |
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| 19 | '''Note that only examples of twin/related characters should be listed: clones, doppelgängers, and other identical counterparts are more typically played by the same actor and not part of this trope. VoiceActors who voice both of a pair of twins go on ActingForTwo.''' |
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| 21 | !!Examples: |
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| 24 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 25 | * In a 1990s commercial for Diet Pepsi, Music/RayCharles introduces his twin brother Irv Charles, also played by Ray. In addition, the Raeletts (a trio of backup singers) have a set of twins, the Irvettes. |
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| 28 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 29 | * Mari Natsuki voices both Yubaba and her twin Zeniba in ''Anime/SpiritedAway''. This is carried over to the foreign dubs, with the late Suzanne Pleshette voicing both roles in the English release. |
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| 32 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 33 | * In ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'', Creator/NicolasCage plays both Charlie Kaufman (a fictionalized version of the film's screenwriter) and Donald Kaufman, his fictional twin brother. |
| 34 | * In ''{{Film/Avatar}}'', there's a plot point of a scientist dying before his expedition to Pandora and his twin brother being chosen to go in his place (as the titular avatar's configuration is a good enough match for a twin brother). Both are played by Creator/SamWorthington. |
| 35 | * Creator/BetteDavis in ''Film/AStolenLife'' and ''Film/DeadRinger''. |
| 36 | * Creator/BetteMidler and Creator/LilyTomlin each play a pair of identical twins in ''Big Business''. |
| 37 | * In ''The Black Room'' Creator/BorisKarloff plays a good twin and the evil twin who kills him and takes over his life. |
| 38 | * In ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}'', Creator/EddieMurphy plays Kit Ramsay and his nerdy twin brother Jiff. |
| 39 | * In ''Film/TheCableGuy'', [[Creator/BenStiller Ben Stiller]] plays former TV child star Sam Sweet who is on trial for the murder of his twin brother Stan Sweet, also played by Stiller. Though the trial doesn't play into the main plot at all, they tie together into a joke at the end of the film when Ernie [[spoiler: falls onto a satellite dish, disrupting the transmission all over town just as the verdict of the trial is being announced.]] |
| 40 | * Creator/ChrisRock plays two identical twins in ''Film/BadCompany2002''. |
| 41 | * An example spanning two films, but Creator/ChowYunFat plays the twins, Mark and Ken, in the ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' series. The first film ends with [[spoiler:Mark getting machine-gunned to death]], but thanks to Chow's popularity the sequel brings him back as Ken in a RememberTheNewGuy moment. |
| 42 | * In the Creator/ChristopherNolan film ''Film/ThePrestige'', Creator/ChristianBale plays Alfred Borden [[spoiler:and his identical twin brother, who is heavily disguised and passed off as Borden's assistant Fallon whenever they appear together. The two brothers swap roles of Borden and Fallon, and when one of them loses a finger to injury, they work together to amputate the same finger from the previously-uninjured twin to maintain their role-swapping options.]] |
| 43 | * In ''Film/Constantine2005'', Angela Dodgson is a twin whose sister kills herself at the beginning of the film. Both are played by Creator/RachelWeisz. |
| 44 | * ''Film/DeadRingers'': Creator/JeremyIrons plays twin brothers Elliot and Beverly Mantle, two wealthy private practice gynecologists. Their interaction was mostly achieved via split screen. |
| 45 | * ''Film/DoctorSeries'': |
| 46 | ** In ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'', Creator/MyleneDemongeot plays both Sonja and Helga Stromberg. |
| 47 | ** In ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'', Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice was hoped to also play Captain Spratt, the brother of his usual role of Sir Lancelot. |
| 48 | * ''Film/DoubleImpact'' and ''Film/MaximumRisk'' both feature Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme playing two twin brothers. |
| 49 | * Creator/EdwardNorton plays two twins in ''Film/LeavesOfGrass''. |
| 50 | * Creator/FrankieHowerd plays both UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart and his separated-at-birth twin brother Lurkalot in ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt''. |
| 51 | * Creator/FreddieHighmore plays twins Jared and Simon in ''Film/TheSpiderwickChronicles''. Reportedly a number of viewers didn't know the characters were meant to be twins and thought Simon was played by another actor. |
| 52 | * ''Film/GlassOnion'': [[spoiler:Andi Brand]], played by [[spoiler:Creator/JanelleMonae]], has an identical twin played by the same actor. |
| 53 | * In ''Film/TheGreenButchers'', Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays both the cynical [[TheStoner stoner]] Bjarne and his mentally-challenged brother Egil. |
| 54 | * The horror-mystery, ''Film/{{Hex}}'' uses this as a plot point. Lady Chan (portrayed by Tanny Tien), who died halfway into the film after being poisoned and abused by her GoldDigger husband and FalseFriend handmaiden (who turns out to be in cahoots with the husband), after Lady Chan's massive inheritance, somehow returns from the dead as a VengefulGhost, cursing the perpetrators responsible for her death with the husband being DrivenToSuicide and her false friend DrivenToMadness. Except it turns out the "ghost" isn't one at all, it's Lady Chan's twin sister (portrayed by the same actress) pulling a ScoobyDooHoax - like posing as an apparition of Lady Chan wearing the same clothes she died in, digging up Lady Chan's corpse and placing it in her bedroom to scare the husband, and all that. |
| 55 | * In ''{{Film/Inseparable}}'', Creator/BenedictCumberbatch plays [[SecretlyDying Joe]] and [[BecomingTheMask Charlie]]. |
| 56 | * ''Film/JackAndDiane'': Creator/JunoTemple played both Diane and Karen, her twin. |
| 57 | * In ''Film/JackAndJill'', Creator/AdamSandler plays both the main character and the character's [[CrossCastRole twin sister]]. |
| 58 | * ''Film/KingEagle'', a Creator/ShawBrothers kung-fu film, has actress Li Ching playing a CainAndAbel set of twins. The sisters even fights each other a few times. |
| 59 | * In ''Film/{{Legend}}'', Creator/TomHardy portrays both Ronald and Reginald Kray, the infamous twin {{London Gangster}}s. |
| 60 | * Creator/LindsayLohan had another outing as twins separated at birth in ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'', in which she played the bright-eyed and studious Aubrey, who turns up missing; meanwhile, her long-lost twin Dakota--a stripper who was abducted, tortured, and mutilated--suddenly surfaces and is mistaken for the former twin. |
| 61 | * ''Film/TheLovedOne'' has Creator/JonathanWinters as the Reverend Wilbur Glenworthy, owner of Whispering Glades cemetery and mortuary, and his brother Henry Glenworthy, owner of Happier Hunting Grounds pet cemetery. |
| 62 | * ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' reveals that Bill has an identical (albeit [[FatAndSkinny a bit wider]]) twin brother, also played by Creator/StellanSkarsgard. They pull a TwinSwitch at an award ceremony so that Bill can make it to the hotel’s grand opening. |
| 63 | * ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' goes with the theory that the titular man was King UsefulNotes/LouisXIV's secret twin, with both being played by Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. This has been true of ''every'' film version of the story, including 1962's ''Film/{{The Iron Mask|1962}}'', with Jean-François Poron in both roles. |
| 64 | * Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau plays identical twins Lucas and Jeffrey Desange in ''Film/{{Mama}}''. In the film, the latter dies in the opening act while the former fights child custody to be the legal guardian of the latter's now orphaned daughters. |
| 65 | * The film ''My Brother's Keeper'' features Creator/AaronAshmore playing twin brothers. The irony? He has a twin who is also an actor (Creator/ShawnAshmore) but was used for stunt work. |
| 66 | * The Lifetime film ''My Husband's Secret Twin'' involves a woman whose husband is kidnapped by his identical twin. The twins are played by the same actor, except the "evil" twin has a British accent and the husband has an American accent. |
| 67 | * In ''Film/NowYouSeeMe2'', Creator/WoodyHarrelson not only continues playing Merritt [=McKinney=] from the first film, but also plays Merritt's twin brother Chase, who had been mentioned once in in Merritt's interrogation by the FBI in the first film as having been Merritt's former manager who stole all his money from him [[spoiler:using Merritt's own hypnosis magic against him]]. In addition, [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin the twin is secretly working for Arthur Tressler]], the BigBad.]] |
| 68 | * In the 1988 Creator/RichardPryor comedy ''Film/{{Moving}}'', Creator/RandyQuaid plays Frank Crawford, a crazy, Vietnam veteran neighbor and his twin brother Cornell, who's the same way. |
| 69 | * Creator/SeanYoung plays twins Ellen and Dorothy in ''Film/AKissBeforeDying''. |
| 70 | * Done in both versions of ''The Parent Trap'' (the [[Film/TheParentTrap1961 1961 original]] starring Creator/HayleyMills and the [[Film/TheParentTrap1998 1998 remake]] starring Creator/LindsayLohan). The lead plays both separated at birth twins, as they were split as part of their parents' divorce proceedings and kept secret from each other. They swap places to get to know their other parent after meeting at camp before planning to get them back together. For the original, Walt Disney wanted to get actual twins in the role...until he saw what the DoubleVision effects looked like. |
| 71 | * ''Film/ShockTreatment'' has Cliff de Young play Brad Majors and [[spoiler: Farley Flavors]], who are revealed to be [[SeparatedAtBirth separated by adoption]] twin brothers. |
| 72 | * In ''Film/TheSnowman2017'', Creator/ChloeSevigny plays twin sisters Ane Pedersen and Sylvia Ottersen. |
| 73 | * ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' has Creator/ArmieHammer play the Winklevoss twins. The production team used an innovative VFX technique in which Hammer acted alongside a body double, Josh Pence, while his scenes were filmed, and Hammer's face was later [[DigitalHeadSwap digitally grafted onto Pence's face]] in post-production. |
| 74 | * In ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', Creator/PaulDano plays both Eli Sunday, the two-faced young preacher who squares off against Daniel Plainview, and Paul Sunday, Eli's brother who leads Plainview to the oil on his family's land in exchange for a finder's fee. Dano was originally cast in the much smaller part of Paul, but when the actor who played Eli suddenly left the production, he took the starring role of Eli on short notice. This is played for a gag when Daniel does a DoubleTake on meeting Eli for the first time after having already dealt with Paul. |
| 75 | * ''Film/ThroughBlackSpruce'': Actress Creator/TanayaBeatty plays both twins Annie and Suzanna Bird. |
| 76 | * ''Film/TwinDragons'': starring Creator/JackieChan as John and Boomer. Identical twins SeparatedAtBirth before reuniting 26 years later. |
| 77 | * ''Film/TwistedPair'': Creator/NeilBreen plays both the GoodTwin Cade and the EvilTwin Cale, who gained extraordinary abilities after aliens converted them into "artificial intelligence entities". Continued in the sequel ''Cale: The Tortured Crossing''. |
| 78 | * Used ''in-universe'' as part of the plot of the comedy ''Two Much''. Creator/AntonioBanderas plays a struggling artist who finds himself forcibly engaged to a wealthy woman (Creator/MelanieGriffith), but is way more interested in her sister Liz (Creator/DarylHannah). In order to date them both, he masquerades as his own twin brother, and even manages to perform a weird scene in which he's talking to himself so that people will see both twins at the same time.[[note]]He walks in circles in a room, repeatedly passing a window, and putting on or taking off a pair of glasses and tying or untying a ponytail before he reaches the window so that the people outside will see the "twin" who is currently speaking. It works.[[/note]] |
| 79 | * In ''Film/WhatHappenedToMonday'', Creator/NoomiRapace plays a set of identical ''septuplets'', each named after [[ThemeNaming a day of the week]]. |
| 80 | * In ''Wonder Man'' Creator/DannyKaye plays Edwin Dingle and his twin Buzzy Bellew. |
| 81 | * The half-forgotten parody ''Film/ZorroTheGayBlade'' was advertised to highlight this trope. |
| 82 | --> '''TV Announcer:''' Creator/GeorgeHamilton! George Hamilton! And a cast of peasants in... ''Zorro, the Gay Blade!'' |
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| 85 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 86 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' features Creator/PattonOswalt in the recurring roles of the identical Koenig quadruplets: Eric, Billy, Sam, & Thurston. [[spoiler:In the final season of the show, Oswalt plays their IdenticalGrandfather Ernest.]] |
| 87 | * SoapOpera ''Series/AllMyChildren'': |
| 88 | ** David Canary played both Adam and Stuart Chandler. |
| 89 | ** During Creator/JulianneMoore's run as Frannie Hughes, she discovers a twin sister[[spoiler:/cousin]] (Sabrina, also played by Moore) while attending Oxford. |
| 90 | * ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': Creator/TatyanaAli of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' plays a girl whose twin sister (also played by Ali) died trying to get rid of a demon spirit known as the eponymous Quicksilver in the episode "The Tale of the Quicksilver". |
| 91 | * ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' |
| 92 | ** George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth are both played by Creator/JeffreyTambor. |
| 93 | ** It also has an exaggerated and quite literal example with the Richter quintuplets (all Creator/AndyRichter): Andy, the showoff; Chareth, the flirt; Donny, the sensitive one; Rocky, Andy's stunt double; and Emmett, who asked that his face not be shown on camera (even though it looks like his brothers'). This is also an ActorAllusion to Richter's role as the father on the short-lived ''Series/{{Quintuplets}}''. |
| 94 | * ''Series/TheBarrier'': In the story's present day, Julia is the only survivor of a pair of identical twins. Her sister Sara is shown as an adult in several flashbacks, in which she's played by Julia's actress. The more common version of the trope is used in a photo depicting both sisters. |
| 95 | * In ''Series/{{Baskets}}'', Creator/ZachGalifianakis plays twins Chip and Dale Baskets. In contrast, their twin brothers by adoption Cody and Logan are played by actual twins Garry and Jason Clemmons respectively. |
| 96 | * ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Creator/ElizabethMontgomery played both Samantha Stephens and her mischievous nearly identical brunette cousin Serena; however, because the characters were so different, many fans were unaware that Elizabeth played both parts. To keep the charade going, she adopted a pseudonym when credited for Serena as Pandora Spocks. |
| 97 | * Creator/CelinaJade plays Shado and her CanonForeigner BackupTwin Mei in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. |
| 98 | * ''Series/BlakesSeven'': In the episode "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E12DeathWatch Death-Watch]]", Creator/StevenPacey plays Deeta Tarrant, twin brother of his regular role of Del Tarrant. |
| 99 | * Parodied InUniverse in a "behind the scenes" episode of ''Series/ChildrensHospital'', where it's shown that one actor once played the part of a a character and his identical twin brother. The joke is that the actor already ''had'' an identical twin brother, and the producers had decided that using then-state-of-the-art CGI technology would be cheaper than hiring another actor. |
| 100 | * ''Series/{{Chucky}}'': Creator/DevonSawa plays both Jake's abusive father, Luke, and Luke's twin brother and Jake's uncle, Logan. |
| 101 | * The ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS02E08 Double Shock]]" featured Creator/MartinLandau portraying Dexter and Norman Paris, identical twins who use their looks to murder their rich uncle and cover their tracks. |
| 102 | * The ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' episode "Cuando los gemelos no son buenos cuates" features two twin dancers, both played by Carlos Villagrán. HilarityEnsues due to their opposite personalities and the fact neither El Chapulín or a theatre assistant (Ramón Valdez) knew there were two of them, getting increasingly confused in the process. And it turns out the girlfriend of one of the dancers ''also'' has a twin sister that is also played by the same person (Florinda Meza). |
| 103 | * ''Series/DarkAngel'': Most or all of the X5 supersoldiers were created as pairs of identical twins, and in the two cases where we've seen both twins of a set onscreen, they were played by the same actor: Creator/JensenAckles played both Ben/X5-493 and Alec/X5-494, Creator/JessicaAlba played both Max/X5-452 and Sam/X5-453. Technically, they're [[ClonesArePeopleToo clones]], but they were created at the same time and aged normally from infancy to adulthood, so they're effectively the same as natural twins and the series refers to them as "twins" more often than "clones". Screenshots of Zack/X5-599, Tinga/X5-656, Brin/X5-734 and Krit/X5-471 are also used in the real-world book ''The Eyes Only Dossier'' for the files on their twins Lane/X5-600, Jewel/X5-657, Keema/X5-735 and Devon/X5-472. |
| 104 | * ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': In "[[Recap/ElementaryS01E10TheLeviathan The Leviathan]]", Sherlock spends the night with a pair of identical twins, Olivia and Gwen Lynch, who do not appear on screen together and are played by a single actress, Tonya Glanz. |
| 105 | * ''Series/FamilyMatters'': Jaleel White, playing his signature role of Steve Urkel and (on occasion starting with the second season) his southern belle-wannabe cousin Myrtle Urkel. This was a case of Urkel also playing a female character. |
| 106 | * ''Series/{{Fargo}} [[Series/FargoSeasonThree Season 3]]'': Played with for the Stussy brothers. Creator/EwanMcGregor plays both brothers, but Emmit is two years older than Ray. Ray is a balding, shifty, and bitter parole officer barely making ends meet, while Emmit is a handsome, enormously successful, "parking lot king of Minnesota". The resemblance the brothers have to one another becomes a plot point in episodes 4 and 5, when Ray impersonates Emmit by shaving his mustache and donning a convincing wig in order to get into Emmit's safety deposit box. Then one episode later, he and Nikki ruin Emmit's marriage by sending him a sex tape of themselves that's meant to be blackmail, but inadvertently is first discovered by Emmit's wife. |
| 107 | * A RunningGag in ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons'', with Anne Dorval playing both Ashley and Criquette Rockwell, James Hyndman playing both Peter and [[BackUpTwin Peter]] Malboro, and Marc Labrèche playing both Brett and Brad Montgomery, as well as [[spoiler: their secret triplet sister Brenda]] and [[spoiler: their grandfather Clifford]]. |
| 108 | * In ''Series/TheFollowing'', Creator/SamUnderwood plays both Mark and Luke Gray, a pair of SerialKiller twins. |
| 109 | * Phoebe on ''{{Series/Friends}}'' and her twin sister Ursula are both played by Creator/LisaKudrow. It should be noted that Ursula was originally the ditzy waitress from ''Series/MadAboutYou''. In order to 'explain' why Lisa Kudrow was on two shows, they had a two-part crossover revealing that Ursula was Phoebe's sister. |
| 110 | * In ''Series/GentlemanJack'', Anthony Flanagan plays pig farmer Sam Sowden. After Sam [[spoiler: is killed by his son]], Sam's twin brother comes to town, also played by Flanagan. |
| 111 | * ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' had an episode where the ghost of one twin haunted her sister. Both were played by Creator/JessicaCollins. |
| 112 | * ''Series/{{Himmelsdalen}}'': Creator/JosefinAsplund played both Helena and Siri, who are identical twins. |
| 113 | * Happened a couple of times on ''Series/HomeAndAway''. In the early days, Sharyn Hodgson had to double up as Carly Morris' twin sister Samantha whenever she appeared. Several years later, it turned out Kirsty Sutherland had an IdenticalTwin, Laura Degroot, who had been swapped at birth with another girl who was brought up as Kirsty's twin sister Jade; Christie Hayes played both Kirsty and Laura. |
| 114 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': In "The Wedding" Creator/MelissaLeo plays both Kay Howard and her twin sister Carrie, the latter under the pseudonym "Margaret May." While Carrie attends Meldrick Lewis's wedding, Kay spends most of the episode on a case with Gee. |
| 115 | * In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' (the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' prequel), Creator/JeffersonHall plays both twin brothers Jason and Tyland Lannister. Interestingly also averted on the same show with Arryk and Erryk Cargyll, who are played by real identical twins Luke and Elliott Tittensor. |
| 116 | * On ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', Creator/JennetteMcCurdy plays both Sam and Melanie Puckett, identical twins [[PolarOppositeTwins who are polar opposites]], in the episode "[=iTwins=]". She reprises both roles in the ''Series/SamAndCat'' episode "[=#Twinfection=]." |
| 117 | ** Subverted InUniverse for the former, as Freddie believes Melanie is Sam in disguise. |
| 118 | * ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''. Creator/BarbaraEden plays not only Jeannie, but Jeannie's evil twin sister (whose name is also Jeannie), ''and'' their mother (whose name is ''also'' Jeannie as well). |
| 119 | * ''Series/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer2021'': Creator/MadisonIseman played both of the identical twin sisters Lennon and Allison. |
| 120 | * A running gag in ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' is John's conspiracy theory that there is only one Olsen "twin". |
| 121 | * On both ''Series/LesRevenants'' and its American remake ''Series/TheReturned'', the actress who plays Camille (Yara Pilartz and India Ennenga, respectively) also plays her twin Lena in scenes set before Camille's death. |
| 122 | * Liv and Maddie Rooney of ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' are both played by Creator/DoveCameron. They do interact a lot, so there are stand-ins as well as shots being combined to show both of their faces. The title sequence notably has Liv taking a selfie of the pair, obviously both in shot. Somehow, though (probably because [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Liv is likely wearing heels while Maddie isn't]]), Liv is taller. (In "Helgaween-A-Rooney," she plays triplets.) |
| 123 | * In ''Series/TheLyingGame'', Creator/AlexandraChando plays SeparatedAtBirth twins [[TheHero Emma Becker]] and [[TheDragon Sutton Mercer]]. |
| 124 | * In ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'', Creator/TomEllis plays both Lucifer and his twin brother Michael. |
| 125 | * ''Series/MaryHartmanMaryHartman'': Creator/MartinMull plays Garth Gimble, who dies after being impaled on a Christmas tree, and his twin brother Barth, host of ''Series/FernwoodTonight''. |
| 126 | * ''Series/MyThreeSons'': A four-episode arc to open the series' final season, in the fall of 1971, saw patriarch Steven Douglas' cousin from Scotland, Fergus McBain Douglas, arrive in Los Angeles in search of a wife. Although Fred [=MacMurray=] plays both his signature role and that of Fergus, it is voice actor Alan Caillou who dubs in Fergus' Scottish voice. |
| 127 | * ''Series/NightCourt'': William Utay plays Phil, a homeless bum who befriends Dan. After Phil's death Utay plays his EvilTwin Will. |
| 128 | * ''Series/NorthernExposure'': In "Jules et Joel", Creator/RobMorrow plays both Joel and Joel's twin brother, Jules, though [[spoiler:it was all a dream, and Joel doesn't actually have a twin brother]]. |
| 129 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' uses this with TheReveal early in the series that Charming (real name David) was actually a twin separated at birth - with David being raised by their shepherd parents while the other brother was adopted and raised as a prince by the evil king. After the prince's death, David is used to impersonate him. Creator/JoshDallas plays both brothers, though they're never onscreen together and James (the deceased one) only appears in a couple of flashbacks. They finally share the screen in Season 5, as the cast goes to the Underworld for the second half of the season. |
| 130 | * On ''Series/OrphanBlack'', two of the numerous clones played by Creator/TatianaMaslany turn out to be SeparatedAtBirth twins: [[spoiler:Sarah and Helena]]. |
| 131 | * ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'': Nigel Badminton and his twin Chauncey are both played by Creator/RoryKinnear. |
| 132 | * Creator/PattyDuke played identical twin ''cousins'' Patty and Cathy Lane on ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow''. Years later, she would guest star on ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' in 2015 (her final television role) as the title twins' grandmother Janice and her identical twin sister Hillary, in an [[ActorAllusion allusion]] to her old series. |
| 133 | ** In addition, William Schallert also played Patty and Cathy's identical twin fathers, Martin and Kenneth (respectively), in three episodes of ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow''. |
| 134 | ** Patty reprised her signature role(s) in a TV-movie reunion as well as a series of commercials for the Social Security Administration. |
| 135 | * In ''{{Series/Popular}}'' a number of twins show up, and many are played by the same person, such as Emory Dick's younger sisters (who are the {{Alpha Bitch}}es at their school) played by Creator/AlessandraTorresani. |
| 136 | * In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', while looking at Tommy's Power Rangers database, Red Dino Thunder Ranger Conner mentions that his twin brother had attended the Wind Ninja Academy. James Napier Robertson (Conner) had previously played one of the academy's new students seen in the finale of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''. |
| 137 | ** In ''Ninja Storm'' proper, while it's not revealed at the time they interact with each other, turns out that [[TheMentor Sensei Kanoi Watanabe]] and BigBad Lothor (formerly Kiya Watanabe) were twin brothers, both of them played by Grant [=McFarland=]. Likewise, their younger selves in the TimeTravel episode where Cam finds out are played by Daniel Sing. |
| 138 | * ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': |
| 139 | ** The season six finale reveals that [[spoiler: Alison's mother Jessica (murdered several episodes back) has a twin sister in [=CeCe=]'s mother Mary. Andrea Parker plays both roles]]. |
| 140 | ** The series finale reveals that [[spoiler:A.D. is Spencer's twin sister Alex Drake, also played by Creator/TroianBellisario]]. |
| 141 | ** ''Series/PrettyLittleLiarsOriginalSin'' has Mallory Bechtel plays twins Karen and Kelly Beasley. |
| 142 | * In ''{{Series/Quantico}}'', Nimah and Raina Amin are both played by Yasmine Al Massri. |
| 143 | * ''Series/{{Ringer}}'': Creator/SarahMichelleGellar plays a pair of twins, one of which dies in the first episode (except she doesn't) and the other pretends to be her. |
| 144 | * In ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': Creator/BarclayHope plays both Clifford and Claudius Blossom. |
| 145 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' reveals in Season 3 that all the Spellmans have an EvilTwin. Naturally, when Sabrina and Aunt Zelda's twins appear, Creator/MelissaJoanHart and Creator/BethBroderick double up to play them (named Katrina and Jezebelda respectively). Aunt Hilda (Creator/CarolineRhea)'s twin was only mentioned and didn't appear. |
| 146 | * In-universe in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' where the Janitor pretends to have a twin brother. He fools no one. |
| 147 | * In one episode of the Israeli sitcom ''[=Shemesh=]'', the eponymous main character dates a woman, played by singer and actress Michal Tzafir (who has three siblings but no twin sister), who claims her identical twin sister is a [[StickyFingers kleptomaniac]] to explain why some shop owners angrily kick her out of their shops. At first he's delighted at the prospect of a TwinThreesomeFantasy coming true, but later she invites her sister to meet him at the restaurant he owns, and when she does they keep stepping out to call the other and just barely missing each other repeatedly (both are wearing the same outfit, except one of them has a scarf). He thinks it's a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory meant to cover for her kleptomania and breaks it off, citing trust issues. The next day, both twins come to his restaurant, and when he tries to go back on his decision, his ex refuses, [[IronicEcho citing trust issues]]. |
| 148 | * ''Series/StrangersFromHell'': Park Jong-hwan plays both Byeon Deuk-jong and Byeon Deuk-soo. |
| 149 | * In the ''{{Series/Supergirl| 2015}}'' series, Supergirl's mother Alura Zor-El and her EvilTwin Astra are played by Creator/LauraBenanti. |
| 150 | * ''Series/{{Twin}}'', despite the title, is a relatively downplayed example - Creator/KristoferHivju plays twin brothers Erik and Adam Moen, but the premise of the series is Erik pretending to be Adam after his death, so the two characters rarely share screen time, save for in flashbacks, after the first episode. |
| 151 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Identical characters pop up all the time here. |
| 152 | ** Joxer is one of a set of identical triplets, all played by Creator/TedRaimi. Each of the other two (Jett and Jace) appears separately in a different episode. |
| 153 | ** Gabrielle's daughter Hope, when she grows up (unusually fast, but {{Justified}} because the father is an evil god), is identical to her mother, and is also played by Reneé O'Connor. Hope impersonates Gabrielle on a number of occasions, and Gabrielle returns the "favor" at least once. The "three naked Gabrielles" of the episode "The Quill Is Mightier..." do not fit this trope, as they were played by body doubles, and O'Connor's face appears only in a couple of close-ups. |
| 154 | ** Lawless, O'Connor and Raimi also play descendants of their characters in the ClipShow episode "The Xena Scrolls". |
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| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 158 | * In the ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' series, both Agent Brown and his EvilTwin Mortimer are voiced by Chris [=McCann=]. |
| 159 | * HalfIdenticalTwins Palom and Porom in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' are both voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya in the original Japanese version. |
| 160 | * In the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, the titular twin brothers, Mario and Luigi, are played by Creator/CharlesMartinet. Following his departure, Charles was eventually [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] by Kevin Afghani starting with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''. |
| 161 | * Twin sisters Beth and Hannah in ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' are both portrayed (including motion capture and voice acting) by actress Ella Lentini. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Twin sisters Nanoha and Saeko Mukouda are both played by Creator/SumireUesaka (and accordingly by Creator/ElizabethMaxwell in the English dub). |
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| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 166 | * ''Webcomic/{{IDGet}}'' explored this in a 2007 strip regarding odd casting choices in movies, including Lindsay Lohan as twins in ''The Parent Trap'', which Lindsay justifies by saying, "What? It's not as if twins exist in real life." |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 170 | * German actress Sandra Jessica Forster often films [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeKnxmh1iDA comedy sketches]] of herself playing triplets arguing with each other (although in some sketches she's gone up to as many as five). |
| 171 | * ''WebVideo/MrPeterson'' has a scene with twin sisters - {{Tomboy}} Maggie and GirlyGirl Zoe. Both are played by Agnieszka Bialek. |
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