The Silent Twins is a new film based on the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters born in 1963 to parents of Caribbean descent, and whose family lived mainly in Wales.Persecuted at ...

June and Jennifer Gibbons, who grew up in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, became known as the 'Silent Twins' after they refused to talk to anyone except each other, much to the bewilderment of their ...

You may be familiar with the story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins born to Barbadian parents who moved to Wales in the 1970s. Known as “the silent twins”, the sisters refused to ...

June and Jennifer Gibbons became known as the 'Silent Twins' after developing a 'secret language' which meant they only spoke to each others and their dolls, isolating themselves from everyone else ...

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 ...

The Silent Twins focuses on what the sisters could control in their lives. Creative jealousy festers when June’s literary career takes off (her novel, The Pepsi-Cola Addict , was published in 1982).

Tamara Lawrance discusses her dramas The Silent Twins and Get Millie Black. Skip to ... “We had to create a sense of oneness by moving slowly or by using what June and Jennifer called ‘eye ...

The first few minutes of The Silent Twins are wonderfully striking.Opening in the mutual imaginary world of June and Jennifer Gibbons as children — played with youthful exuberance by Leah ...

The Silent Twins tells the story of black sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons, who stopped communicating with the outside world after facing racism and bullying. The film, released in the UK on ...

June and Jennifer Gibbons ended up being sent to a mental health hospital for 11 years. ... The Silent Twins, which is based on her own book of the same name, originally published in 1986.