It Ain't Hemingway

After Seeing Social Network I was intrigued to learn more about the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss who were portrayed by just one actor, Armie Hammer in the movie.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

The Winklevoss’ were the original inventors of an online campus website that allowed Harvard students to interact with one another through personal pages on the internet. The Winklevoss’ hired Zuckerberg to write the code for the site and in return stole the idea and created what is now Facebook. The Winklevoss’ sued and won but the amount is undisclosed. The 6’5 225 twin brothers were on the Olympic Crew team in the 2008 Beijing Games.

Armie Hammer portrayed both of the Winklevoss' in Social Network

Former Highland Park kid Armie Hammer reports that he had to bulk up to play identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film The Social Network. The Harvard-educated twins, who scrapped with Mark Zuckerberg over who invented Facebook , competed together in men’s pair rowing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“I was training four hours a day,” Armie says of his preparation for the role(s), in the new issue of People.

Armie is the great-grandson of Occidental Petroleum titan Armand Hammer. When he and his brother, Viktor, were kids, they lived with their parents, Dru and Michael Hammer, in a lavish Highland Park home on the southeast corner of Bordeaux and Douglas.

Armie recently married Texan Elizabeth Chambers , a UT grad and news reporter for Current TV.