Mikey Madison is trending - and will be all over your news feeds this morning, with great reason. The actress has won her first Oscar - and one of the most covetable of the night, after being named Best Actress for her role in Anora, which won five gongs and was also named Best Film.
While there’s plenty of search for the film Anora and how you watch it, people are also hunting for a bit more info about Mikey herself (people are keen to know how old she is: fact, she’s 25 years old, but if you’re 26 and still haven’t had your first Oscar, try not to let that make you feel too bad). In addition, there's another question people are searching for: does Mikey Madison have a twin?
The short answer is yes. But before you get excited at the idea of a second identical Mikey Madison twin doing the rounds, she actually has a twin brother, and despite what Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night says, boy and girl twins can never be identical - that’s not how genetics work. Mikey is one of five siblings, and her brother Miles is her twin. However, despite the fact that his sister is now an actual flipping Oscar-winner, and he’s probably already Whatsapped everyone in his contacts list to tell them that he knows her, when they were growing up, he used to pretend they weren’t actually siblings:
Talking in W Magazine she said, 'I was always the weird horse girl, and I think at some point I grew into myself a little bit more. People started to think that I wasn't, like, weird,' she said. 'My twin brother would pretend that we weren't siblings. People would be like on the last day of school, "Miles, why would you be getting into [Mikey's] car with her?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, she's my sister."'
Redditors have already been hunting to find a pic of Mikey's brother - clearly people are curious to know if they look very similar - although (genetics again) they're not going to look any more or less similar than standard siblings. One thread has shared a pic of Mikey celebrating her birthday with a guy about her age, who also has a cake with candles in front of him - so although it seems likely that this is in fact Miles, we have no way of knowing.
In fact, we don’t know loads about Mikey’s twin brother at all - other than the fact that he is, as already mentioned, called Miles and is the same age as her, and that they grew up in Los Angeles. But she has spoken about how he was able to reassure her about her career-defining role in Anora.
Talking to USA Today she said, 'I was nervous about my family seeing it because you want them to like your work. My twin is my closest friend, so I was able to ask him, "Did you like it? Do you think I’m a good actor?"
'It’s embarrassing to even admit that, but he was speechless when he saw it for the first time. He was like, "Mikey, I didn’t see you at all; I just saw the character." Coming from him, that was really special to hear.'
Aww we’re already obsessed with this sibling relationship - petition for Miles Madison to join his sister on the red carpet at the earliest opportunity?