When June and Jennifer Gibbons were born, it was clear to their parents early on that something was unique about them. Or, more accurately, between them. “They started talking late and when they ...

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 story of June and Jennifer Gibbons remains as confounding as ever — even with multiple on-screen and print iterations. The identical twins spent most of their lives mirroring each other’s ...

Jennifer Gibbons (Tamara Lawrance, left) and her twin sister June (Letitia Wright) enjoy spirited, creative lives when alone but fall mute in the presence of others in “The Silent Twins.” ...

Tamara Lawrance on playing Jennifer Gibbons in the real-life story 'The Silent Twins' NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with British actor Tamara Lawrance, co-star of "The Silent Twins" - a movie about ...

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 ...

In 1986, journalist Marjorie Wallace published a book titled The Silent Twins about the life of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical sisters who only communicated with one another through their ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with British actor Tamara Lawrance, co-star of "The Silent Twins" - a movie about two girls who grew up speaking only to each other.

It's brought a new awakening in me... RASCOE: That was the reality for two girls who grew up in Wales in the 1960s and '70s, June and Jennifer Gibbons, the children of immigrants from Barbados.