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If you want to pull out some kind of Doppelgänger in an episode of TV, the ideal way to achieve it would, of course, be to bring in a whole other actor who just happens to look exactly like the actor you're duplicating. Unfortunately, actors typically don't have identical twins hanging around.
But hey, sometimes they do! Twins have a certain advantage when it comes to getting in movies and TV. For one, child labor laws limit the amount of filming a kid can do in a single day. When you've used one kid to the daily quota, there's always the backup kid. This trope is practically the rule with babies since they obviously can't follow stage direction; one might be better at sitting still when they need him to, whereas the other might be a little better at interacting with others. Also, identical twins make excellent doubles, which works even if the twin isn't an actor.
The opposite of Playing Their Own Twin.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day:
In the climax, Sarah Connor appears on screen at the same time as the T-1000 is mimicking her. This shot was achieved using Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren as the T-1000. Apparently the filmmakers were not aware until production commenced that Hamilton had a twin because the original plans were to use Back to the Future Part II-style camera tricks and film editing.
Leslie is also used in a Deleted Scene (reinserted in the extended edition) that appears to show the T-800 in a mirror while Sarah is working on the inside of his head; this was actually a clever set piece done entirely without camera effects through the use of an empty mirror frame, where Linda operates on a Schwarzenegger dummy with an open robotic skull on one side, while Leslie mirrors her movements on the other side with the real Schwarzenegger.
They also use Leslie in Sarah's dream sequence. Since Leslie wasn't as buff as Linda she was able to look convincing as a version of Sarah who got to raise her son in peace.
Real-life twins Don and Dan Stanton are used for the pictured above scene during the T-1000's infiltration of the asylum, with Don Stanton playing Lewis, the guard, while Dan plays the T-1000 assuming Lewis's appearance.
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In the film adaptation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg's toddler brother Manny was played by twins Connor and Owen Fielding. The companion book Wimpy Kid Movie Diary notes how this was a helpful approach for dealing with young actors, since when one twin can't take direction, the other twin is available.
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Last Night in Soho employs James and Oliver Phelps (aka Fred and George Weasley) in the scene where Eloise looks in the mirror and sees Sandie, with the twins being what is supposed to be a single doorman taking the wom(e)n's cloak.
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Apocalypse Now: For some scenes of Benjamin Willard that were filmed after Martin Sheen was temporarily incapacitated in production by a heart attack, his brother Joe Estevez was used as a body double.
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Maude. There was an episode where Arthur's never-before-mentioned twin Arnold escaped from a sanatorium, impersonated him, even successfully slept with Vivian. Both brothers were played by Conrad Bain — until the last scene where they appear together, and Arnold is played by Bonar Bain.
More interestingly, Bonar dressed in drag in Different Strokes to play a female relative of Conrad's character Phillip.
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Became an issue in 2015; in the years since returning to the roster, Brie and Nikki no longer look identical; Nikki had breast implants, Brie got tattoos (though they aren't always noticeable due to their placement), the two have different work out regimens leading to different musculature, they have different hair colors, and they wear outfits made of different materials, making it very easy to tell the two apart, so fans called hijinks when the two managed to pull off "twin magic" against Paige and WWE expected everyone to buy it. WWE tried to address this a few weeks later in the rematch where they try twin magic again and it appears to backfire with Brie getting pinned, only to reveal the switch by showing that she's stuffed her bra, but given the other differences between them, it's still sketchy.
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Full House: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen spent eight years alternating in the role of Michelle, for the standard child labor law workaround. They were on screen simultaneously several times: a nightmare scene where Uncle Jesse sees two Michelles, an identical distant cousin visiting from Greece, a Good Angel, Bad Angel scenario, and a dream sequence in the final episode when Michelle had amnesia and the other Michelle represented the memories that she'd forgotten.
Throughout Seasons 1 to 7, the part of Michelle Tanner was credited to "Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen", leading many audience members to believe that there was in fact only one girl. In Season 8, the credits were finally changed to say "and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as Michelle".
Mary-Kate and Ashley now say that when they watch old episodes from the earliest seasons, they can't actually tell which of them is actually in the scene.
Notablly, the twins aren't actually identical; they're just fraternal twins who happen to look very similar.
In Fuller House baby Tommy is played by twins Dashiell and Fox Messitt.
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Happens in the Agent Training Program scene in The Matrix. When Morpheus is taking Neo through the program, have you ever had the feeling that you just saw the same extras walk by the camera twice, with each pair wearing identical outfits? Those are all real pairs of twins. No CGI of any kind. The in-universe explanation is that Mouse got lazy while creating the program that he just created half the crowd and copy-pasted it rather than code unique characters. Now did you notice that, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
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In 1977, a year after Deirdre Hall began playing Dr. Marlena Evans on Days of Our Lives, her twin sister Andrea was brought in to play Marlena's twin Samantha. Samantha was later killed off, but Andrea Hall again returned to the show to play Marlena's doppelganger Hattie from 2000-2001.
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While not twins, or even related, it was noticed early in production of One Day at a Time (2017) that creator Gloria Calderón Kellett bore a pretty strong resemblance◊ to series lead Justina Machado. It was eventually decided to make use of this, and after being made up with a costume and wig to resemble Machado even more, Calderón Kellett was introduced as the character of Nicole, the Identical Stranger new-girlfriend of Victor, the ex-husband of Machado's character Penny... who made everybody but Victor uncomfortable with just how much she was like Penny, down to her distinct laugh.
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In The Outer Limits (1995) episode "In Another Life", the multiple versions of Mason Stark are played by the twin actors Matthew and Mitchell Laurance.
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An episode of The Latest Buzz involves Amanda dating a guy who looks exactly like Wilder, naturally he was played by Munro Chamber's twin.
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The Last of Us (2023) used twins to play baby Ellie in the flashback scene in the last episode. One of the twins was not very cooperative, though.
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Used for a very clever visual effect in The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A Passage for Trumpet". Joey Crown (Jack Klugman) thought he was dead and wandering the world as a ghost when he saw a full-length mirror next to a theater ticket booth. He saw the reflection of the girl in the ticket booth, but not his own reflection. The set designers built the set so it had two identical theater entrances, only one was reversed as a mirror image, with a pane of clear glass between them. The girl in the ticket booth was played by twins, one in the "real world" and one in the "reflection".
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Twin siblings April and June in Search Party are portrayed by real-life twins Phoebe and Claire Tyers.
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Parodied in a match where the twins wrestled Maryse and Jillian Hall. Jillian rolled Maryse out of the ring and lay down in her place attempting to pull the switch. Of course Jillian and Maryse aren't twins and the ref wasn't fooled.
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In Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Adam Szalinski was played by twins Daniel and Joshua Shalikar.
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In Sons of Anarchy, Abel Teller is portrayed by twins Ryder and Evan Londo.
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When the WWE acquired Dave Hebner's twin brother Earl from NWA, the creative got an idea where Ted DiBiase would hire Earl to impersonate Dave in order to screw Hulk Hogan out of the title. Thus, the infamous Evil Twin Referee match was born.
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Moon Knight (2022): Not quite twins, but Oscar Isaac's younger brother Mike Hernandez played his body double whenever the title hero's split personalities were both onscreen together.
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The X-Files Season 1 episode 11 has twin actresses Erika and Sabrina Krievins portray Cindy Reardon and Teena Simmons, two kidnapped girls who turn out to be "Eves", clones part of a retired government supersoldier-type experiment that one of their "sisters" was still running in secret at the time of their respective conceptions.
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The Prestige does it In-Universe. Alfred Borden's entire schtick is that he is actually a pair of identical twin brothers. At any given time, one of the brothers is playing the role of Borden, and the other is playing the role of Fallon, Borden's assistant, using wigs and makeup.
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X-Men Film Series:
Amusingly averted in X-Men. Mystique impersonates Bobby "Iceman" Drake (Shawn Ashmore), and in one scene, the real Iceman walks by a door shortly before the fake Iceman comes out of it. Director Bryan Singer states in the DVD Commentary that he went to the trouble of doing two takes spliced together because he didn't know he'd hired somebody with an identical twin who could have easily played the double.
They did make use of twins in X2: X-Men United though when Mystique is disguised as a janitor while doing some undercover work and walks past the real janitor.
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Black Lagoon: One official doujin is based around a What If? scenario of the cast being Animated Actors in a TV show. An in-universe example comes up with the Creepy Twins Hansel and Gretel — who were played by twin child actresses.
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An episode of Roswell had shapeshifter Nasedo disguise himself as an FBI agent played by Gunnar Clancey. When the two were briefly seen together, Gunnar's twin brother Bo was used.
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Smallville, where Aaron Ashmore plays Jimmy Olsen, and Shawn Ashmore (who played a Meteor Freak-of-the-Week in the early seasons) makes the occasional double work possible.
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger had an episode where the MOTD creates an Evil Twin of GekiBlue, who was played by Manpei Takagi's identical twin brother, Shinpei. These two have a habit of showing up in each other's shows.
Averted in the counterpart series Power Rangers Jungle Fury, where Blue Ranger Theo's twin brother Luen stops by for a visit, but both are played by Aljin Abella.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice has an In-Universe example. In the second case, Stage Magician Bonny De Famme is famous for her teleportation act. She pulls it off due to having a twin sister, Betty. Naturally you end up having to expose this in court when the "Bonny" testifying turns out to be Betty.
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They did make use of twins in X2: X-Men United though when Mystique is disguised as a janitor while doing some undercover work and walks past the real janitor.
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In Fuller House baby Tommy is played by twins Dashiell and Fox Messitt.
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In the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Chameleons", the story involved a chameleon who turns into an evil doppelganger of a teenage girl and tries to kill her and steal her life. Who else would they get but Tia and Tamera Mowry?
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Star Trek: in I, Mudd, Alyce Andrece played Alice #1 through #250, while Rhae Andrece played Alice 251 through 500. Similarly, Ted and Tom LeGarde played the Herman series, Colleen and Maureen Thornton played the Barbara Series, and Starr and Tamara Wilson played the Maisie Series.
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Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim Hanks would often take over his voice roles from the spinoffs and video games of both Toy Story and The Polar Express.
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An episode of Warehouse 13 was to involve Aaron and Shawn Ashmore, thhanks to an artifact splitting Aaron's character into two people, but Shawn was unavailable when it came time to shoot the episode, so Aaron had to handle both roles by himself.
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The concept of Moon over Parador is that actor Jack Noah (played by Richard Dreyfuss) secretly takes the place of look-alike Banana Republic dictator Alphonse Simms after the latter dies. In the two scenes where the Jack and Simms interact — once while Simms is alive, the other after Simms has died of a heart attack — Simms is played by Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss's look-alike older brother.
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Also, both play the role of Julian in Big Daddy.
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Dispatches From Elsewhere has an In-Universe example: Commander 14 and Octavio Coleman are fictional characters, played by identical twin actors. One of the twins mentions that each twin played both characters depending on the situation. In real life, both "twins" are played by the same actor.
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In Coronation Street, the role of Bethany Platt was played by twins Amy and Emily Walton until the end of her first stint in 2007. The two girls were briefly seen together in a Christmas pantomime the show's cast put on. In fact, given they usually have little to no dialogue or character before they are around 10 (with a few rare exceptions), the majority of children on the show are played by twins or triplets. Once they are expected to actually begin playing roles in storylines in later childhood, they often are recast with a single performer who can play the role into puberty and adulthood.
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The Mowry twins actually subvert this in Strong Medicine. Dr. Kayla Thornton, the local ex-Teen Genius Hospital Hottie (Tamera), does have a twin named Kesha (Tia), but she only appears once in the plot. And Kesha turns out to be The Ophelia, contrasting with Sugar-and-Ice Girl Kayla.
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Episode 35 of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger starred twin sisters Chiharu Tomita and Akiyo Tomita as Chisato Kameda, a kid ninja who employed Self-Duplication.
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Kid", Tommy was played by twin brothers Preston and Trevor Shores.
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In Orange Is the New Black, Laverne Cox's twin brother M Lamar plays her character before her transition. Apparently, Cox was willing to do the pre-transition scenes herself, but the producers weren't comfortable with making her do that and the problem was solved when they found out about her brother.
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Dollhouse: in "The Attic", Enver Gjokaj's non-actor twin was used in a dream where Victor had to continually fight an enemy version of himself.
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Semi-example; when The Who made a guest appearance as themselves on The Simpsons, Pete Townshend had a sore throat and wasn't able to read his lines, so his soundalike younger brother, Simon Townshend, read the lines on his behalf.
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Sliders: For three episodes, Rembrandt's double was played by Cleavant Derricks' twin Clinton Derricks-Carroll. In the first of these, they actually looked so different that it was preposterous Rembrandt's friends could get them confused. (The show even included a cringe-worthy "how'd they do that?" scene with the doubles repeatedly circling each other in awe and touching each other's faces.) In the second, makeup made them sufficiently indistinguishable that they traded roles for the final scene, with Clinton playing the Rembrandt who slides away with the group. Few viewers noticed. In the low-budget Sci-Fi Channel seasons, Cleavant played all the Rembrandts.
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Averted in the counterpart series Power Rangers Jungle Fury, where Blue Ranger Theo's twin brother Luen stops by for a visit, but both are played by Aljin Abella.
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Seventeen Again (2000): The entire plot is that the grandmother is rascalized... and becomes the spitting image of her granddaughter, played by Tia Mowry. The rascalized grandma, naturally, is then played by Tamera Mowry, Tia's twin sister. (And just for kicks, the granddaughter's younger brother is played by...the twins' younger brother Tahj.)
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Big Brother: Reality TV example: In the Australian Big Brother house, a pair of twins posed as one housemate and would swap in and out at Big Bro's command. This happened in two seasons of the American version as well.
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Early in Unedited Footage of a Bear, Donna is savagely beaten by an evil version of herself. Donna and the evil Donna are played by twins Kerry and Jacqueline Donelli.
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Super Sentai:
Episode 35 of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger starred twin sisters Chiharu Tomita and Akiyo Tomita as Chisato Kameda, a kid ninja who employed Self-Duplication.
Quest 12 of Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger featured the now grown-up Tomita sisters as an office lady and the Copy Org assuming her form. Averted when the Copy Org copies Sae Taiga (Mio Takeuchi); as the actress does not have a twin sister, tokusatsu trickery was used.
Juken Sentai Gekiranger had an episode where the MOTD creates an Evil Twin of GekiBlue, who was played by Manpei Takagi's identical twin brother, Shinpei. These two have a habit of showing up in each other's shows.
Averted in the counterpart series Power Rangers Jungle Fury, where Blue Ranger Theo's twin brother Luen stops by for a visit, but both are played by Aljin Abella.
In episode 25 of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, when the Dairangers fought evil clones of themselves, Kazu's evil clone was played by Daisuke Tsuchiya, the real-life twin brother of Kazu's actor, Keisuke Tsuchiya. The roles were later inverted in Juukou B-Fighter, where Daisuke was the main hero (Blue Beet), while Keisuke played his evil twin (Black Beet).
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Same with the independent movie The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, except it had little to do with labor laws and more about the tone in certain scenes.
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Amusingly averted in X-Men. Mystique impersonates Bobby "Iceman" Drake (Shawn Ashmore), and in one scene, the real Iceman walks by a door shortly before the fake Iceman comes out of it. Director Bryan Singer states in the DVD Commentary that he went to the trouble of doing two takes spliced together because he didn't know he'd hired somebody with an identical twin who could have easily played the double.
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Jojo Rabbit used Roman Griffin Davis’s (who played Jojo) older identical twin brothers to play Hitler Youth “clones� to streamline the CGI process.
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A 2008 Australian children's serial called Double Trouble featured a Parent Trap-style plot of twins separated at birth meeting by chance and pulling a Twin Switch. However, instead of Hayley Mills or Lindsay Lohan doubling up, the series featured real twins Christine and Cassandra Glenn as the two girls, meaning there are noticeable differences between them.
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In House of the Dragon, Arryk and Erryk Cargyll are twin brothers who both serve on the Kingsguard, respectively played by real-life twins Luke and Elliott Tittensor. In a pivotal scene where Erryk defects to Rhaenyra's side of the civil war, he's actually played by Luke, the "wrong" twin, since Elliott was out sick that day.
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While not a twin per se, Harrison Ford's non-actor son Ben Ford ended up bearing such a striking resemblance to his father as a young adult that Ridley Scott brought him in to record new visual effects shots for the Final Cut of Blade Runner released in 2007, 25 years after the original theatrical cut from 1982.
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And the youngest child in the TV show Grace Under Fire
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In Little House on the Prairie, the youngest Ingalls sister Carrie is shown in the credits as being played by Lindsay Sidney Greenbush. She was actually played by Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, identical twins, for the usual child labor law reasons.
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In Yes, Dear, Anthony and Michael Bain alternated as the role of Sammy Warner. In The Stinger for the episode, "Headshot", both Anthony and Michael are shown when all four adult characters confess to having "broken" Sammy, and Jimmy and Christine replace Sammy with an identical child and throw the "broken" Sammy out to the curb.
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Animorphs: Jake (played by Shawn Ashmore) gets taken over by a Yeerk. The team needs a fake Jake to impersonate him to his family and teachers while they keep him captive for three days to recover from the infestation (a Yeerk starves to death if they don't return to the Yeerk Pool every three days). Ax morphs into Jake, and the double is played by the actor's twin Aaron. Far from the last time these two would be in the same show.
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Ironically, the Polonia Brothers almost never used this. They did it very briefly for Feeders, but never took advantage of the fact they were identical twins during their career. Mark preferred being a director.
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In the first Sex and the City movie Charlotte's oldest daughter Lily was played by Alexandra and Parker Fong, in the sequel Charlotte and Harry's biological daughter Rose was played by two sets of twins.
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In Power Rangers Zeo, the original Gold Ranger is Trey from Triforia, an alien prince who splits into three different beings. He is played by triplets Ted, Tom and Tim DiFilippo.
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Quest 12 of Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger featured the now grown-up Tomita sisters as an office lady and the Copy Org assuming her form. Averted when the Copy Org copies Sae Taiga (Mio Takeuchi); as the actress does not have a twin sister, tokusatsu trickery was used.
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Mexican telenovela La Usurpadora used actress Gabriela Spanic's twin sister Daniela for a fight scene and a few other scenes that would have been tricky to film with one actress alone.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
In "The Replacement", Xander is split into the strongest and weakest elements of his personality. Nicholas Brendon's twin Kelly Donovan guest starred — but was only included when they had to be in the same shot together, due to the fact that Kelly Donovan isn't (primarily) an actor.
Also, Nicholas Brendan was so sick during the filming of "Intervention" that Kelly played Xander for his fight scene. He went on to be Nicholas's stand-in throughout the rest of the series.
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Done in House of Anubis where Jade Ramsey's twin, Nikita, was brought into the show for a few episodes to play Patricia's identical, yet completely opposite twin sister, Piper.
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Charmed: Young Wyatt Halliwell was played by the twin actors Jason and Kristopher Simmons, throughout his run in the series, exempt only in the cases of his older, future self-appearing.
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Notably averted on Friends. As an older child, Ross's son Ben was played by a young Cole Sprouse, though unlike with many child actors they never bothered using Cole's twin brother Dylan.
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Don and Dan Stanton also played two scientist twins in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and had a minor part (a cameo, basically) in Good Morning, Vietnam. Based on comments from their boss, the twins in Gremlins 2 are actually clones.
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In episode 25 of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, when the Dairangers fought evil clones of themselves, Kazu's evil clone was played by Daisuke Tsuchiya, the real-life twin brother of Kazu's actor, Keisuke Tsuchiya. The roles were later inverted in Juukou B-Fighter, where Daisuke was the main hero (Blue Beet), while Keisuke played his evil twin (Black Beet).
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