James and Oliver were born as the only children of the Phelps family on february 25th 1986. Oliver was faster than his "baby" brother and came to the world 13 min. before James. James got the names of grandfather Andrew and his uncle Eric and Oliver was namend after his dad Martyn and the other grandfather John. They grew up with their two dogs Tom and Jerry in Sutton Coldfield, a town near Birmingham. Both visited the Terry Arthur School in Sutton Coldfield, but in different classes. Although, they switched their names and play pranks on the teachers. James finished the first book of Harry Potter as their mother told them about an audition in Leeds. They love being actors since their childhood. The family drove to Leeds. After the audition and few days later, the whole family was in the living room and mother Phelps on the phone. Her answer of the question:" Is the mother of the weasley twins there?" was "No". They get the roles of Fred and George Weasley and dyed their brown hairs in ginger, also the eye brows. At the beginning of the shootings, their height was ca. 5'5 and now 6'3.