Being a huge movie fan I like to read movie trivia whenever I have a chance. The Internet Movie Database is probably the best movie website on the internet and I’m guessing is probably used by movie fans the world over to settle bets about who directed which movie and who starred opposite who etc. In fact I recently lost a fiver over an embarrassing lapse of memory when I forgot which actor played the lead in American Beauty. Yes, I know it was Kevin Spacey now, so don’t say it.

One of my favourite movies of all time, for reasons I won’t go into here, is Terminator. And it was when browsing through the site that I did a search on Linda Hamilton, who played the character of Sarah Connor. I was fascinated to learn that in the sequel to terminator, Terminator 2, Judgment Day, her part was occasionally played by a double, none other than Leslie Hamilton Gearren, Linda’s identical twin sister.

Who’d have thought it? I’ve always given credit to Linda Hamilton for being one of the toughest “on-screen” actresses, along with Sigourney Weaver and Linda Fiorentino (who could resist Fiorentino’s phenomenal performance as the calculating femme fatale in The Last Seduction?). But now I find out that not only is Linda Hamilton a superlative hard ultravixen, but presumably her sister is the same. Scary family, even if incredibly talented.

IMDB lists in the trivia section on Linda hamilton that “while attending Washington College, the acting professor told her [Linda Hamilton] she had no hope of earning a living as an actress”. Hmmm “Those who can, do, those who can’t, teach”, right?

If you have any other great twins movie trivia I’d love to hear it.

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