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They started sharing one sitcom role as nine-month-olds and ended up sharing a tween-media empire: direct-to-video mysteries, sleepover parties on VHS, and a clothing line in every Walmart. For girls of a certain era, Mary-Kate and Ashley weren't celebrities — they were the brand of childhood itself.
Identical twins separated at birth, reunited as teenagers, and determined never to be split up again. Sister, Sister made real-life twins Tia and Tamera Mowry Friday-night royalty — first on ABC, then on The WB — and gave television one of its great unanimous verdicts: "Go home, Roger!"
Disney Channel's sitcom about identical twins living in a Boston hotel lobby. Zack and Cody Martin were troublemakers in suits and ties, navigating the Tipton Hotel with their mom the lounge singer and a cast of misfits—the rich girl London, candy-counter staffer Maddie, and a hotel full of chaos waiting to happen.
One eleven-year-old, two accents, one very elaborate scheme. Lindsay Lohan's double-role debut as twins separated at birth — reunited at summer camp and determined to swap lives and re-trap their parents — turned a 1961 Disney classic into a 90s comfort-movie institution.