The most current on AMC, Lily/Ava.

John O'Hurley (erstwhile of Seinfeld, now of Family Feud) briefly played twins on LOVING. Not that I remember much of it, except that his hair hadn't turned white yet, I think. EricMontreal would probably know.

TVLand aired some brief clips of this a few years ago when they had a show called "My First Time." They had celebrities discussing their first important role, and O'Hurley talked about his LOV role. They had clips of Ted Danson on "Somerset" too.

One of my favorite "Dark Shadows" storylines was a parallel time storyline in 1970 about twins Angelique Collins and Alexis Stokes, both played by Lara Parker. Angelique "dies" of a "stroke" during a seance six months before the storyline starts, so when it does start, her husband, Quentin, is married to Maggie Evans. Alexis turns up at Collinwood wanting to know more about her sister's death. Somehow, they went to Angie's tomb and found her body looking the exact same as it did when they buried her. Alexis asked for to be left alone with the body before they burned it, but then Angelique came back to life by draining the life out of Alexis. She put Alexis's body in the coffin and they burned Alexis's body, thinking she was Angelique. Angelique proceeded to masquerade as Alexis, using her powers of witchcraft to stir up all kinds of [!@#$%^&*] around Collinsport, especially driving Maggie crazy.

AMC has had a lot of them:

Adam and Stuart Chandler

Kitty and Kelly

Cindy and Karen Parker (but it didn't make sense because Parker was supposed to be Cindy's married name)

Frankie and Maggie Stone

Anna Devane and Dr. Alexandra Devane Marick

*There was a rumor once that Marj Dusay was going to play Vanessa's twin, Gwynnie, who was Frankie/Maggie's mom, but they didn't go that route

Lookalikes:

Natalie and Janet

Tad Martin and Ted Orsini

Jesse Hubbard and Jacob Foster (Loving/The City)

Lily and Ava (Ava was supposed to be an older sister to make the pairing with Jonathan more feasible)

Will Cortlandt and the actor hired to impersonate him

Loving

Jeremy Hunter and evil twin Gilbert

GH

Kevin/Ryan

Benny and Bernie Abrams (Sonny's accountants... Benny's dead)

Manuel "Manny" Ruiz and his priest brother (forgot the twin's name)

Lookalikes:

Luke Spencer and cousin Bill Eckert

Holly Sutton had a half-sister Paloma who was a lookalike that ran some country, didn't she?

Mac Scorpio and James

Lorenzo and Luis Alcazar

Lily Rivera and Marcella Montoya (after some plastic surgery)

Helena Cassadine has a double that went to prison for her

Sam McCall and Alicia Montenegro

Nikolas Cassadine and Connor Bishop

OLTL

Marco Dane and Mario Corelli

Frankie and Leslie Holden (Max and Luna's twins)

Dr. Colin and Dr. Troy MacIver

Carlo Hesser and Mortimer Bern

Natalie and Jessica (fraternal twins)

Walker Laurence and Flynn Laurence

OLTL/PC

Patrick's brother Ian wasn't a twin, just a lookalike brother.

Granya Thornhart (Patrick/Ian's dead sister) was a lookalike to Marty Saybrooke (played by Susan Haskell)

PC

Livvie had the weird lookalike "good" part of her soul embodied by Tess

Casey and Marissa Leong

Kevin Collins and Ryan Chamberlain

Caleb/Michael were passed off as twins before being revealed as two sides of his personality

Paige Smith and Rebecca Smith Barrington (lookalikes separated by many generations)

Edited June 9, 200817 yr by DavidEvanSmith

David Canary's Adam/Stuart are, far and away, the most indelible set of twins ever in daytime television.

TVLand aired some brief clips of this a few years ago when they had a show called "My First Time." They had celebrities discussing their first important role, and O'Hurley talked about his LOV role. They had clips of Ted Danson on "Somerset" too.

One of my favorite "Dark Shadows" storylines was a parallel time storyline in 1970 about twins Angelique Collins and Alexis Stokes, both played by Lara Parker. Angelique "dies" of a "stroke" during a seance six months before the storyline starts, so when it does start, her husband, Quentin, is married to Maggie Evans. Alexis turns up at Collinwood wanting to know more about her sister's death. Somehow, they went to Angie's tomb and found her body looking the exact same as it did when they buried her. Alexis asked for to be left alone with the body before they burned it, but then Angelique came back to life by draining the life out of Alexis. She put Alexis's body in the coffin and they burned Alexis's body, thinking she was Angelique. Angelique proceeded to masquerade as Alexis, using her powers of witchcraft to stir up all kinds of [!@#$%^&*] around Collinsport, especially driving Maggie crazy.

Angelique!

OLTL

Tom Dennison was the long lost brother of Viki's dead husband Joe Riley(Lee Paterson returned to the show in the late 80's)

In the late 70's,Pat Ashley's evil twin Maggie arrived from England and tried to take over her sister's life-shades of Marlena/Samantha.Jacquie Courtney used a bad wig and bad accent to differentiate the two.

EON

Bruno and Gunther Wagner.

Julie Jamison and Laura Hillyer-long lost twins.

LOL

Maggie Porter and Kay Logan played by Joan Copeland.Maggie died and Kay came to town.

SFT

In the 50's Jo's soon to be husband Arthur was fooled by his late first wife's twin into believing she was still alive.

Len Whiting had a twin brother who had died in a fire.

DOOL

Tom Jr and Addie(Hope's mother)were twins.

Secret Storm

Alexander Scourby played brothers Owen and Ian Northcote in the late 60's.

B&B shouldn't have kept Steffy and Phoebe identical when they had them a few years ago. There are lots of twins that aren't identical and selfishly for the soaps, it makes for much easier casting.

Secret Storm

Alexander Scourby played brothers Owen and Ian Northcote in the late 60's.

That actor was married to the actress who played Val in real life, right? I think her name was Lori March.

How about Kristen, Susan, Sister Mary Moira, Thomas and Penelope - all played by Eileen Davidson - on DAYS? Would those count?

Didn't Jeremy Hunter have an evil twin on LOVING?

Yep. Gilbert.

oh yeah.

The City/AMC

Jesse and Jacob

ATWT:

Sabrina & Frannie Hughes

oh yeah.

The City/AMC

Jesse and Jacob

they aren't twins.

Edited June 9, 200817 yr by Cheap21

Frannie and Sabrina Hughes are cousins.

Frannie's mother is Jennifer(Kim's sister)Bob is both girls father.They were identical when Julianne Moore played a dual role but later two different actresses played the parts.Was this explained in any way??

All that history is being wasted as Jean and Chris ignore these characters.

Gordon Rigsby was the first Ian on Secret Storm and Lori March was married to the second- Alexander Scourby.

On GL Kevin and Jason are Blake's twin sons by Ross.They should be aged into late teens and brought into the show.

I think all the twin characters have been covered or are there any others from long ago that are yet to be mentioned?

Frannie and Sabrina Hughes are cousins.

They're sisters and cousins.