History Main / PlayingTheirOwnTwin

* ''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.

* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Creator/ElizabethMontgomery played both Samantha 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.

* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork' has Creator/ArmiHammer 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 digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production.

* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', both Winklevoss twins were played by Creator/ArmieHammer. 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 digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production.

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* The ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS02E08 Double Shock]]" featured Creator/MartinLandau portraying identical twins who use their looks to murder their rich uncle and cover their tracks.

* ''Series/{{Fargo}} [[Series/FargoSeasonThree Season 3]]'': Played with for the Stussy brothers. Both are played by Creator/EwanMcGregor, but Emmitt is two years older than Ray. Ray is a balding, shifty, and bitter parole officer barely making ends meet. Emmitt 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, Ray is able to impersonate Emmitt by shaving his mustache and donning a convincing wig in order to get into Emmitt's safety deposit box. Then one episode later, he and Nikki ruin Emmitt's marriage by sending Emmitt a sextape of themselves that's meant to be blackmail, but inadvertently is first discovered by Emmitt's wife.

** 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=].

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' reveals in Season 3 that all the Spellmans have an EvilTwin. Naturally, when Sabrina and Zelda's twins appear, Creator/MelissaJoanHart and Creator/BethBroderick double up to play them (named Katrina and Jezebelda respectively). Hilda (Creator/CarolineRhea)'s twin was only mentioned and didn't appear.

* In the ''{{Series/Supergirl| 2015}}'' series, Alura Zor-El and her EvilTwin Astra are played by Creator/LauraBenanti.

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' reveals in Season 3 that all the Spellmans have an EvilTwin. Naturally, when Sabrina and Zelda's twins appear, Creator/MelissaJoanHart and Creator/BethBroderick double up to play them (named Katrina and Jessebelta respectively).

* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', while looking at Tommy's Power Rangers database, 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''.

* 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 ''Creator/KevinAfghani'' starting with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''.

* Happens infrequently during ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', with one of the most well-known being found in The Stockades dungeon: where one of the Bosses Randolph Moloch is a gang-leader that has an identical twin brother named Mortimer that the Stormwind Guard wants to plant inside of The Stockades as TheMole in order to keep tabs on the dealings of prisoners and end the ongoing Prison Riot. After killing Randolph, Mortimer shows up... only to immediately suffer from a heart attack and die next to Randolph.

* In the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, the titular twin brothers, Mario and Luigi, are played by Creator/CharlesMartinet.

* In ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'', Creator/MyleneDemongeot plays both Sonja and Helga Stromberg.

* 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 twins Luke and Elliott Tittensor.

* In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' (the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' prequel), Creator/JeffersonHall plays both twin brothers Jason and Tyland Lannister.

* ''Series/NorthernExposure'': In "Jules et Joel", Creator/RobMorrow plays both Joel and Joel's twin brother, Jules, though [[spoiler:it was all a dream]].

* ''Film/GlassOnion'': [[spoiler:Creator/JanelleMonae's Andi Brand]] has a twin sister played by the same actor.