They were identical twins, two black girls in a white world with a bond so fiercely strong, nobody else could get in. Now, their fascinating — and troubling — story is about to hit the big screen.

Casting identical twins. June and Jennifer were identical, however, the two sets of actors who play them in “The Silent Twins” are not. Originally, Smoczyńska considered using CGI so that ...

Perhaps the twins` battle began 25 years ago in their mother`s womb when, randomly, a single fertilized egg split, and two distinct yet genetically identical beings were created.

June and Jennifer Gibbons, famously known as the “Silent Twins,” shared a unique and tragic bond that fascinated and baffled the world. Born in 1963 to a Barbadian family and raised in Wales ...

“The Silent Twins,” a new film starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, sets out to show the complexity of twinship onscreen. By Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Growing up in England and Wales in ...

(From left) Tamara Lawrance and Letitia Wright star as Jennifer and June Gibbons in "The Silent Twins" film in theaters Sept. 16. (Photo: Lukasz Bak/Focus Features) The story of June and Jennifer ...

“The Silent Twins” begins in greatly promising fashion, as the voices of 11-year-old June (Mondesir-Simmonds) and Jennifer (Baxter) break the fourth wall while introducing the cast of the film ...

The Silent Twins (now on Amazon Prime Video) is director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s dramatic iteration of the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who for many years maintained a sort of ...

Written by Andrea Seigel,The Silent Twins is based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins originally from the West Indies who grew up in Wales. The two became known ...

“The Silent Twins” begins with a series of notes and children’s drawings, ... They play identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons as children. It’s hard to tell them apart.

June and Jennifer were identical, however, the two sets of actors who play them in “The Silent Twins” are not. Originally, Smoczyńska considered using CGI so that Wright, who is also an ...