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Lindsay Lohan does not have a twin sister, and she used a body double for some scenes in The Parent Trap. Erin Mackey was Lohan's body double for scenes where the characters interacted with each other. Mackey has had success in both film and Broadway, starring in productions like Wicked and Annie.

Contrary to some popular rumors, Lindsay Lohan never had a twin sister and used a double for some of The Parent Trap scenes. The New York native starred as both Halle and Anna in the 1998 remake of the film alongside Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson. To differentiate the characters, Anna had long hair, which she later cut, and spoke in a British accent. It is always fun to see a movie coming up with creative ways of portraying fictional twins or doubles, especially before CG faces and replacements were common.

The Parent Trap was Lohan's first film role,...

Break out the peanut butter and Oreos: The cast of “The Parent Trap” reunited on Monday for the first time since filming the 1998 movie, for a special on Katie Couric’s Instagram that raised funds for World Central Kitchen.

Director Nancy Meyers, writer Charles Shyer, and actors Dennis Quaid, Lindsay Lohan, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter and Simon Kunz gathered to celebrate and remember the family film which put Lohan on the map. She played a pair of twins, Hallie and Annie, who meet for the first time at camp and realize that their parents had separated them and kept them a secret from each other. They devise a plan to switch parents, with one going to their father Nick Parker (Quaid) and the other to their mother Elizabeth James (Natasha Richardson). James’ butler, Martin (Kunz), and Parker’s nanny Chessy (Walter) round out the cast, with the movie’s villain,...

Today we rewind to 2012, when Chaplin was getting ready to premiere on Broadway. The musical, which played for 135 performances at the EthelBarrymore Theatre, starred Jenn Colella, Christiane Noll, Erin Mackey, Michael McCormick and Rob McClure.From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, Chaplin is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn't stop talking about -Charlie Chaplin. The brand new 24-person musical reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius that forever changed the way America went to the movies.

Three years ago, Erin Mackey was just another college student spending the summer following her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University back home in Fullerton, Calif. She was working at Starbucks and doing Babes in Arms at the Saddleback Civic Light Opera in Mission Viejo when one of her castmates mentioned upcoming auditions for a touring production of the Tony-winning musical Wicked. The Stephen Schwartz musical happened to be one of Mackey's favorite shows of all time, and she was able to secure an audition. Unfortunately, she couldn't make it. (No, she didn't have to sling coffee but was deep in rehearsals for Babes and, ever the pro, couldn't miss tech week.) Instead, she went to the open call and, not being Equity, "sat around for a long time." But the wait paid off; Mackey landed a job as a swing on the national tour of the show. Seven months later,...