Actors - Gayle & Gillian Blakeney

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Gayle and Gillian Blakeney are a pair of fraternal twins who performed together as actresses and as a dance/pop duo in the 1990s. They were born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on July 9, 1966. Gayle is the older by 9 minutes.

The sisters began their career in 1979 when they appeared in a video clip for the Australian group The Monitors, "Singin' In The '80s". In 1990 they joined the cast of the soap opera Neighbours as Caroline(played by Gillian) and Christina (played by Gayle) Alessi.

Following the success of former Neighbours actors Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan as recording artists, the Blakeneys went to England in 1991 to record with Stock Aitken Waterman as "The Twins". The resulting single, "All Mixed Up," became a modest club hit that year, and peaked at #77 in the UK Pop chart that year.

According to a fan-based website devoted to them they saw a medium who told them they were going to meet three men that were going to cause them problems once they got to England. The "three men" would be Stock Aitken Waterman. The twins claimed that were being treated like children while they were in the studio and there was friction between them and the producers. As a result the girls parted ways with Stock Aitken Waterman. They both said it was the worst experience of their career.

They returned to Neighbours briefly, leaving the show in 1992. In 1993 they released two singles in the United Kingdom as "Gillian & Gayle", "Mad If You Don't" (number 75 in 1993) and a cover version of Prince's "I Want To Be Your Lover" (number 62 in 1994).

In 1994 the sisters moved to the United States(Where they still reside today) to pursue acting roles, landing guest spots on various film and TV projects.

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