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Top 10 Actors Who Have Played Twins


that one’s boomer
no that’s boomer or is it John it’s hard
enough to portray one character but two
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
actors that have played twins oh you can
go forward and I could roll backward
which is medically identical Sciences
would stay in one place for this list
we’re taking a look at actors that
excelled at playing both of the twins in
a film or TV show movies or series where
different actors portray that twin roles
did not make the cut in this list and
please be advised there are spoilers
ahead so spoiler alert all them are him
isn’t up top number 10 Jackie Chan twin
dragons
mix the prince in the popper with Jackie
Chan and a ton of martial arts and
you’ve got the general premise and feel
of this Hong Kong action comedy after
two newborn twins are separated from
each other at a hospital they grow up in
vastly different environments Mayo
becoming a classical musician and
conductor the one that the girl out
there thinks I’m a musician she
certainly thinks I’m you while Juan mah
grows up to become proficient in street
racing and martial arts that’s why the
girl doesn’t believe I’m giving a
concert ah confusion and high jinks
ensue when the to inadvertently take
each other’s places and get mixed up
with a nasty gang
number nine jean-claude van damme double
impact believe this my brother after a
triad henchman kills the parents of a
set of twins one is rescued and raised
in Los Angeles while the other is raised
at a Hong Kong orphanage la boum hugging
wah
lang that check it whoo I’m the jacket
no it’s it’s my brother wrong guy
when they finally cross paths once again
in Hong Kong the two who have both
trained to become world class martial
arts experts find themselves in a
conflict with the triad mob nice going
nice going nice going my ass almost got
killed though Chad and Alex Wagner
initially have reservations about each
other I like these your brother brother
why because it looks like me I’m gonna
change that they each realize they
cannot prevail without the other’s
assistance and they finally team up in
this commercial triumph that reached
number two at the box office I’m
thinking my brother on a fishing trip
number 8 Edward Norton leaves of grass
my brother killed pug Rothbaum this
comedy-drama from the arsenal of
director Tim Blake Nelson is enhanced by
the flawless performance says of Norton
Plainville a mild Brown University
professor and Grady a rough marijuana
dealer no sir we didn’t 100% cure
Oklahoma grown when Brady fakes his
death so that bill can come back to his
Oklahoma hometown well my brother’s been
murdered bill is asked to take his twins
place so that Brady can go and knock off
a menacing drug lord hey I just got
tricked by my No Deal
before long both find themselves in
trouble in this wacky movie that is
alternately dark funny philosophical and
touching you are going to ruin my life
number seven army hammer the social
network is Royal Highness Prince Albert
behind us this is Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss of course in a performance
that won him the Toronto Film Critics
Association award for best supporting
actor Armie Hammer here plays to rich
twin brothers and fellow Harvard
University students to Mark Zuckerberg
who invite him to work with them on a
new social network slash dating website
screw it let’s gut the friggin nerd when
Zuckerberg ends up going in his own
direction to create the incredibly
popular Facebook Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss believed that their idea was
stolen he’s giving us the finger in the
crimson first complaining to the Harvard
president and later suing Zuckerberg
company the twins provide a compelling
conflict in this film based on the true
story I am asking you for the last time
let’s take the considerable resources at
our disposal and sue him in federal
court number six
Jeremy Irons Dead Ringers let me
introduce myself I’m one of the mental
teens in a movie that won the Genie
Award for Best Canadian film this creepy
thriller showcases a stunning and
award-winning performance by Jeremy
Irons as two twin gynecologists brothers
fit twins did it tentacle tweetIn
highly successful in their practice the
dominant Elliott enjoys seducing his
female patients and later hands them
over to the more passive Beverly if we
didn’t share women you still be a virgin
no you’re never get laid on your own
however when they’re introduced to Clare
played by geneviève Bujold a downward
spiral begins that upsets the balance
and harmony between the twins what can
you expect and sends them into a mire of
delusion drugs and depression that will
have deadly results separation champion
number five Christian Bale The Prestige
Alfred Safran Oh in just one of the many
twists presented in this Christopher
Nolan movie it’s revealed that Alfred
Borden a working-class magician and his
assistant Bernard Fallon are actually
identical twins and have been switching
places throughout life deceiving
everyone including their loved ones mr.
Farley’s manju now wears it together
borrowed don’t know the integrity of the
entire film depends on our not knowing
this secret until the end and Christian
Bale keeps the secret well with his
incredible and chameleon-like
performance as both men that’s right
the prestige referred to by some as one
of the best films of the decade can’t
help but keep you guessing we both fell
we were both bored
number four Jeffrey Tambor Arrested
Development Oh stupid Oscar when you
gonna learn there’s no such thing as
freak
in the show that Time magazine called
one of the all-time top 100 TV shows
Jeffrey Tambor’s performance says as the
two Bluth brothers at the top of the
family tree stand out as laugh out loud
idiotic you gave me up George George I’m
not sure George senior the balding
patriarch of the dysfunctional Bluth
family is the founder of the Bluth
company but spends most of the earlier
seasons either in prison or in hiding
due to some sketchy business practices
it’s Oscar wearing my suit hey you do
you kill my brother
you don’t we’re dead man’s pants Oscar
with a full head of luxurious hair is
more laid back has never had to work
hard and Joy’s using marijuana and
usually finds himself at odds with his
brother are you guys planning a party
yes it’s uh it’s your father’s birthday
which coincidentally is my birthday
number three Lindsay Lohan The Parent
Trap then he would hire like like
sisters while Hayley Mills did a fine
job in the 1961 film of the same name we
could do it quick turns out we we’ve
chosen the 1998 remake as our top three
choice here this does Halle I like twins
in The Parent Trap when 11 year old twin
sisters Annie and Halle are enrolled at
the same summer camp by coincidence they
both discovered their relation as well
as the fact that they have the same
parents
although longtime divorced now I’ve got
goosebumps oh my god so not an only
child I’m a twin it’s then that the
girls decide to spring the titular
Parent Trap which is their plan to
switch roles and help their parents fall
in love with each other again I think we
should switch places
when caps over all go back to London as
you and you go back to California as me
what this feel-good family movie ended
up becoming a critical and commercial
triumph with Dennis Quaid Natasha
Richardson and Lindsay Lohan praised for
their sweet heartfelt and believable
performances
hey Dad wow you look so nice where are
you going good night ladies
number 2 Leonardo DiCaprio the man in
the iron mask
based on the legend of the man in the
iron mask
this film attempts to guess at the
identity of the mysterious masked figure
who was imprisoned for decades in France
during the late 1600s my twin my blood
fact which has kept him alive until now
when louis xiv is shown to be a
murdering hedonistic and immoral ruler
who lives in luxury while its people
starve the legendary group of retired
Musketeers is forced to come back into
action one from often one
when it’s discovered that the man in the
mask is actually the king’s twin brother
Philippe both of whom are played by Leo
DiCaprio the Musketeers plan is to
release him from captivity and have him
substituted that’s for you my brother
back to the prison you shall go and into
the mask you hate me wear it until you
love it before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
wait is that being no no it is not a bit
Jerry was I believe it so we paint some
twins we’re twins you didn’t tell me I
had a twin brother no matter what
happens they can’t do a thing without my
consent and I’ll never in the world get
that believe me I’m no dear the gang’s
all they’re not trying to get rid of me
are you don’t be silly you’re taking
that course before my brother did my
twin brother Donald he’s the one who got
me to come number one Nicolas Cage
adaptation hey Charles you’ll be glad I
don’t plan to get me out of your house
pronto the job as a plan is your plan a
job with oscar-nominated performances by
Meryl Streep and Nicolas Cage and an
Oscar win for Chris Cooper
awesome I think I’ll get one of those
too this curious and eccentric comedy
drama was listed by some as one of the
great films of the Year Julius and
Phillip Epstein who wrote Casablanca ah
they were twins
we mention that in class when cages
neurotic character Charlie Kaufman is
commissioned to write a screenplay based
on the novel The Orchid Thief by Susan
Orlean he runs into writer’s block both
aggravated and helped by his carefree
twin brother Donald also played by cage
anyway listen I meant to ask you I need
a cool way to kill people
don’t worry for my script the movie
documents their struggles or liens
adventures and an arrogant orchid
stealing swamp rat at the center of it
all anyway I’m gonna look at the porn
sorry research don’t tell my old lady
you mean mom
no I don’t mean mom do you agree with
our list which actors do you think best
pulled off their performances as twins I
get to keep on smoking till the baby
comes and that is cold her yelling that
too but I mean both is going double this
until the bottom drops out anyway for
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