# Twin actors from movies and TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047 "2025-01-16T18:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/21 "2025-01-16T19:33:19Z")
**Quark** starring Richard Benjamin had the Barnstable twins playing The Bettys — one was a clone, no one was sure which one. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/22 "2025-01-16T20:19:12Z")
Does anyone here know whether bit players Estéban and George Fernandez from _Miller’s Crossing_ were twins? > **[Miller's Crossing (1990)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/mediaviewer/rm3894252545?ft0=name&fv0=nm0273487&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame&ref_=tt_ch)** > > Esteban Fernández and George Fernandez in Miller's Crossing (1990) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/23 "2025-01-16T20:37:25Z")
Isabella Rossellini has a fraternal twin sister, Isotta Ingrid, who, AFAIK, was never in film/TV. Wiki says she was a professor of Italian literature Photos: [Ingrid-Bergman-is-visited-by-children-Robertino-Isabella-and-Isotta-Ingrid-352029841260 - Isabella Rossellini - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Rossellini#/media/File:Ingrid-Bergman-is-visited-by-children-Robertino-Isabella-and-Isotta-Ingrid-352029841260.jpg) [Isabella Rossellini actress and twin sister Ingrid, 1971. News Photo - Getty Images](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/isabella-rossellini-actress-and-twin-sister-ingrid-1971-news-photo/1502523135) [Isabella Rossellini | Visiting my twin sister Ingrid in San Francisco who just became a grandmother. Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3wrtNuL4CF/) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/24 "2025-01-16T20:50:13Z")
[Alexandra Paul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Paul), most famously of _Baywatch_, has a twin sister [Caroline Paul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Paul), who is a firefighter and an author. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/25 "2025-01-16T21:05:14Z")
Madeleine and Mary Collinson were two _Playboy_ models who appeared in a horror movie called _Twins of Evil._ ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/26 "2025-01-16T21:12:17Z")
Most everyone gets the idea this is about biological twins, not look-alikes. Any variety of twin defined in the [Twin Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin) qualifies. Other multiples too I suppose. Now I’m including bonus points for the rarest variety of twinning for any pair of people where at least one has an acting credit. Identical and fraternal twins have already been mentioned. First mention of [Monochorionic–Monoamniotic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamniotic_twins) wins the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/27 "2025-01-16T21:35:01Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > Duane and Darryl Hickman. > > Wikipedia says they were born 3 years apart. They did have a very strong resemblance, for what that’s worth. But definitely not twins of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/28 "2025-01-16T22:03:50Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Now I’m including bonus points for the rarest variety of twinning for any pair of people where at least one has an acting credit. Identical and fraternal twins have already been mentioned. First mention of [Monochorionic–Monoamniotic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamniotic_twins) wins the thread. How about conjoined twins? > **[Daisy and Violet Hilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_and_Violet_Hilton)** > > Daisy and Violet Hilton (1906 or 1908 – early January 1969) were English-born entertainers who were conjoined twins. They were exhibited in Europe as children, and toured the United States sideshow, vaudeville and American burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. They were best known for their film appearances in Freaks and the biographic Chained for Life (1951). > The twins were born at 18 Riley Road, Brighton, England, on 5 February 1908. Their mother was Kate Skinner, an unmarried barmaid... ---
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Martin Sheen has a twin brother, Joe Estevez, who filled in for Sheen in a few scenes of Apocalypse Now when Sheen had a heart attack. He’s acted in a lot of stuff, but his career trajectory has not been nearly as successful as his brother Martin; at least judging by the fact that several of the movies he’s been in have been given the ‘RiffTrax’ treatment. ETA: correction— I swear I read somewhere Sheen had a twin brother who fillled in for him on Apacalypse Now, and though he did act as a stand-in on the movie, he’s actually Sheen’s younger brother. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/30 "2025-01-16T22:31:53Z")
The [Sklar Brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sklar_Brothers) have been acting in TV and films since the late 90s. ---
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Randy and Jason Sklar - recently in _Better Call Saul_ and _What We Do in the Shadows_. Wow, that was really a ninja! ---
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Billy and Bobby Mauch had the title roles in The Prince and the Pauper. When I googled to get the names right I discovered that the 2000 remake (which I had never heard of) also had twins in the title roles - Jonathan and Robert Timmins. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/33 "2025-01-16T23:10:58Z")
That is worth multiple points. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/34 "2025-01-16T23:26:32Z")
Also in Good Morning Vietnam. I came in to mention them. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/35 "2025-01-17T00:01:20Z")
Lisa and Louise Burns. They were the two girls in _The Shining_. ---
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Weren’t they twins on **The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody**? ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/37 "2025-01-17T00:33:59Z")
Rami Malek has an identical twin brother. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/38 "2025-01-17T00:44:51Z")
[Matthew and Mitchell Laurence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Laurance) Matthew I recal from a short stint on SNL then in Duet, one of the first live-action FOX shows that was pretty good. If I remember seeing his brother it was Not Necessarily the News in the early 80’s on HBO. ---
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Kiefer Sutherland has a fraternal twin sister, [Rachel](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840158/), who works in the film industry, but as a post-production supervisor and producer, primarily for TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047/40 "2025-01-17T01:09:21Z")
_Days of Our Lives_ actor Deidre Hall has a twin sister Andrea who played the twin sister of Deidre’s character… > **[Andrea Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Hall)** > > Andrea Jean Hall (born October 31, 1947) is a retired American soap opera actress. > Hall is the identical twin sister of soap actress Deidre Hall. > From 1977 to 1982, Hall played Samantha Evans, the twin of her sister Deidre's character Marlena Evans, on Days of Our Lives. She returned to the show playing a Marlena-lookalike, Hattie Adams, from 2000 to 2001. > In 1989, Hall ran PuppyTracks, a mail-order company that manufactured mugs, music, sweatshirts, and other items related to TV soap operas. > ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-actors-from-movies-and-tv/1013047.md?page=3)