The reason Nicholas Cage changed his name is because his uncle was a famous director so he didn't wanna live in his uncles shadow so he changed his name
Fun fact about Michael Caine. He didn't legally change his name from Maurice Micklewhite to Michael Caine until he was eighty-three. He did it then because he was so fed up with being delayed a passport control by people who thought he was travelling under a false name.
And when he was to choose his actor-name, he choose between two names of movies and he took Caine from "The Caine mutiny". It was close his name to be "One Hundred and One Dalmatians".
Jennifer Aniston's father was a famous daytime soap opera actor, he was John Aniston who played "Victor Kiriakis" on "Days Of Our Lives" for many years
Really? That would be like The Rolling Stones changing their name because of a Bob Dylan song. But I guess Jones wouldn't have the same ring to it as Bowie. Unless of course you were John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin.
@@siralleycat9141 I’m not sure which came first, if the Rolling Stones were a rock group, or the Bob Dylan song. I’m too tired to google that. But it’s nowhere near the same analogy, one the name of a band, and one is a lyric in a song. & one is plural and when is singular. Many famous people have changed their name because it was the same as another famous person’s name. Michael Keaton’s real name is Michael Douglas. (so he changed it to get them into SAG, & cause of any confusion) Katy Perry’s real name is Kate Hudson, which is the name of Goldie Hawn’s daughter who was an actress before Katy Perry was famous. It’s a well-known fact that David Bowie changed his name because of Davy Jones being famous on the Monkeys. & he chose the name “Bowie” as in the knife, because he liked the name of Mick Jagger’s name was a type of blade.
@@siralleycat9141 what’s a “fence” singer? (or did you mean “French” singer) Yeah I can relate to your name changing story as well, because when I won the Nobel Peace prize in Oslo, I had to change my name to not to protect myself after becoming a millionaire I didn’t want all my relatives coming after me, asking for money😂
Poderia botar tbm na lista: Rooney Mara (Patricia Rooney Mara) Katheryn Winnick (Katerena Anna Winitska) Jamie Bell (Andrew James Bell) Andy Garcia (Andrés Arturo Garcia Menendez) Sigourney Weaver (Susan Alexandra Weaver) Jack Lemmon (John Uhler Lemmon) Mickey Rourke (Philip Andre Rourke Jr) Bo Derek (Mary Cathleen Collins) Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz) Geena Davis (Virginia Elizabeth Davis) Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson MacDowell) Ali McGraw (Elizabeth Alice McGraw) Birdy (Jasmine Van Den Bogaerde) Bella Thorne (Annabella Avery Thorne) Brad Pitt (William Bradley Pitt) Ally Sheedy (Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy) Kat Dennings (Katherine Victoria Litwack) Sheena Easton (Sheena Shirley Orr) Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatrocchio) Deniece Williams (June Deniece Chandler) Olivia Munn (Lisa Olivia Munn)
Thanks, Up in Grand Rapids they have a Judy Garland museum and I think a festival one day each year. Maybe gossip but Judy was asked to visit and she supposedly said I don't know or remember anyone up there.
Michael Douglas changed his name to Michael Keaton to please Kirk Douglas and his son Michael, but why didn't Diane Keaton make him change his name to something else? There used to be a co-host on tv named Mike Douglas (but I guess he was dead by then). Aren't there 2 Andrew McCarthys and 2 David Axelrods (a Democrat in office and a musician who wrote the piece for a movie)? I used to know a Jim O'Keefe, but he was not in office anywhere.
@@virginiaconnor8350- Michael Douglas got registered first in the Actors union in Hollywood before Michael Keaton started his career. He intentionally used Keaton after watching Diane Keaton in Annie hall. As long the first name is different it's OK. Like Buster Keaton. Comedian and Academy Award winning actor Albert Brook's real name is Albert Einstein. Don't take much a scientist to know why he changed his name.
I remember seeing an interview with Gene Simmons where he said he changed his name because his given name sounded like a cat starting to cough up a hair ball. HA HA HA
Yea but Bronson’s father changed his last name also. They are Lithuanian descent so before Bushinsky they were Bučinskas (or Buchinskas). That is real Lithuanian last name. Buchinsky is not,…closer to Russian.
@badeugenecops4741 It wasn't, it was his stage name. I think he was a little miffed when someone suggested he not use his given name. So his choice was a bit of "up yours".
Joaquin and his siblings had a very messed-up childhood where their family was involved in a cult. When they eventually escaped it, they changed their name to Phoenix to represent they starting a new life
- hello my name is michael Douglas - sorry it is already a famous name - but it is my real name for me - too late, he is too famous - ok my name is michael keaton...
@@Shadowman820 I already know about the Micheal Douglas part or my other factor is the early 20th actor Buster Keaton. Plus Micheal Douglas' ( the one we all know) dad Kirk has a European sounding name before he changed it
@@thenewjord50 yeah sometimes they are told to change their names by agents because they think they'll get less work if their real names sound too ethnic .
One time, my family was flying to California, and my brother and I were like, "Is that Alice Cooper?" Then suddenly, my mom yells out, "Vinny!" Then Alice Cooper turns around and yells back,"Suzy Q, " and he runs over and gives my mom a hug. 😮 My brother and I were shocked! Apparently, they went to high school together in Arizona and were friends, and we had no idea. Wtf mom!! It's probably one of the coolest moments of my life as an 80's kid.
Fernanda Montenegro's true name is Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres. Silvio Santos's is Senor Abravanel. Xuxa's is Maria das Graças Meneghel. Angélica's is Angélica Ksyvickis Huck.
I’m not surprised Maurice Mickelwhite, Norma Mortenson, Archie Leach, Demi Guynes and Frances Gumm changed their names. Eric Bishop, Bernard Schwartz, Amanda Rogers and Robyn Fenty sound like nice folks who’d sell you insurance. Onika Maraj is a cool name though and I think Margarita Cansino would keep her real name nowadays.
If their listed age was their age at the time their picture was taken, makes sense,otherwise, it’s nonsense as many of them have been dead for a while.
Rita Hayworth 🇪🇦+🇮🇪 Martin Sheen 🇪🇦+🇮🇪 Martin Sheen father was from Galicia, Spain. A very proudly Celtic tradition region. Martin mother was from Ireland, Éire. A very proudly Celtic country. Celtic on both sides.
Había leído que Don Ramón Estévez (Mr. Martin) era de ascendencia española, pero no sabía que justo de Galicia, mirá vos.... Pero puede que se haya puesto el nombre en inglés por la pronunciación o exigencias de Hollywood.... 🤷♀️
Agreed 😂 and he grew up dirt poor and had to share shoes he was the only one of his siblings to survive to adulthood. Man they really molded him into a star didnt they
So many goofy names over the years, Stuffy McInnis, Gifford Pinchot, Hubert Cumberdale, Goose Gossage, Walter Sobchak, Howie Feltercrotch, Jack Mioff and Dixon Kuntz.
Interesting trivia with David Copperfield. There is a character called Tess Kotkin in a game called Snowbreak Containment Zone who's hobby is being a magician. Of course in the game she has some assets that are distracting enough to make any trick work perfectly. Giggity.
CeeLo Green - Thomas DeCarlo Callaway Strangely, he shares my surname, my wife's maiden name of Green and even my birthday but he's a year older than me. Never met him, though...
Michael Caine had to choose an artist name. He saw two movie billboards. It was close his name to be "Michael 101 Dalmatians" but he choose name after "the Caine mutiny".
I find stage name vs “real” name fascinating. Some of these folks have changed their name to the stage name; the “real” name is gone. Some mostly go by the stage name but have a different name legal name. For some, the stage name is just a label and go by the “real” name in most circumstances.
Verdine White, bass player of Earth Wind & Fire Was born Verdine Adams, Jr. He changed his name to Verdine White when he joined the band founded by his older half-brother, Maurice White
Pretty cool. Obviously some are just shortened versions of their real name, while others altered the spelling, or changed the name to Americanize it. But a lot of them changed the entire name for obvious reasons, and I probably would have too.
Jaimee Foxworth that played the character Judy Winslow on Family Matters real name is Jamie Foxx. It was changed because Jamie Foxx ( Eric Bishop) already had her name.
You telling me ice cube is not his real name 😮
My mind was blown
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂Love this
oh sh-ae
I thought bono real name is biggest crap
Ben Kingsley is Krishna Pandit Bhanji🤓! My jaw dropped on the floor😀
Me too! 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Me too!!
@@laurapriest8257 does that movie show Gandhi sleeping with young girls too?
He literally looks and sounds like a tikka how did you not know
O'Shea Jackson is already a pretty cool name.
i agree!!!
Helen Mirren real born name, mother: Kathleen 'Kitty' Alexandrina Eva Matilda and father: Vasily Petrovich Mironoff.
Vin Diesel is Mark Sinclair. That's gonna be tough to forget
Not if you have family
Mark Sinclair Vincent even.That`s a really his full name)
Not true
Vin Diesel's real name is Vincent Gass O'Lyne.
It was too Irish.
Thus the change. They decided that
Diesel is safer than Gass O'Lyne.
Yes Freddie as well
I heard it was Pete Roll von Dysell@@alyu1129
OMG Whoopi really is a Karen!!!! Haha imagine that!!
xD
How appropriate………🤣😵💫
Elton John looks exactly how a Reginald Dwight would look.
Haha 😅😅👍👍
But Michael Keaton does not really look like a Michael Douglas!😜😆😆😆
Billie’s parents were just trolling her when they made her middle name “pirate baird” 😂
Pirate Baird
Baird is her mother’s last name, the actress Maggie Baird.
@@masonbaker3505 na she is a missing family member from the Alaskan Bush People 😂
Billie Eilish are just as bad lol
The reason Nicholas Cage changed his name is because his uncle was a famous director so he didn't wanna live in his uncles shadow so he changed his name
Francis Ford Coppola.
Fun fact: "Cage" like/from "Luke Cage".
@@Rex_Tremende that’s is half true . His choice of name was inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage and composer John Cage.
Cool, man. Fascinating
Почему был,его дядя и сейчас известный режиссер
2:40. Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is “Caryn”? No real surprise there. Fitting.
And middle name Elaine.
lol! she is the origin of the freaking Karen phenomena!
ohmuyfngawd!
I'm not surprised that they decided to perform under a different name. Some of the names are really terrible 😂
My real name is Ota Benga Bokongo III. I find it beautiful
True 😅😅
@@OtaBengaBokongoIt sounds like a Congolese name.
Ethnicity isn’t terrible.
Religious names
Michael Demsky became Michael Douglas, while real Michael Douglas became Michael Keaton 😧
Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart. Unfortunately there was already an actor using that name.
Olivia Cockburn is a perfect Hollywood name.
😂😂i love it🎉
Perfect porn name 😂😂😂😂
Fun fact about Michael Caine. He didn't legally change his name from Maurice Micklewhite to Michael Caine until he was eighty-three. He did it then because he was so fed up with being delayed a passport control by people who thought he was travelling under a false name.
And when he was to choose his actor-name, he choose between two names of movies and he took Caine from "The Caine mutiny". It was close his name to be "One Hundred and One Dalmatians".
Oh wow I had no idea Jennifer Aniston was of greek descend. 👌 🇬🇷
Jennifer Aniston's father was a famous daytime soap opera actor, he was John Aniston who played "Victor Kiriakis" on "Days Of Our Lives" for many years
She often mentionned it, though
And she’s related to Telly Savalas, who was of Greek descent.
Her dad used to be on the soaps Days of Our Lives, I think
...he was Greek.
@@MikeCee7Telly Savalas is her godfather so they're not related.
Helen Mirren’s real name (as in born as) is Helen Lydia Mironoff, Hackford is her married name.
Elena-lydia Mironova))
Елена Лидия Миронова?
Yes she is Russian
@@MaureenKainеще и Васильевна
You sure Lorde's real name isn't Randy Marsh?
🎯
Yes
Ya ya ya Iam lorde
Olivia, from burning male appendages to being just plain wild! 🤣 Miley, means "virtous woman" in Hebrew.... MISSED THE MARK WITH THAT ONE!!! 🤣
Yeah not wonder she changed it who wants to have their last name COCKBURN LOL😂😂😂
I thought Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jean baker
So did I.
Baker was the last name of her stepfather.
The picture of Christopher Walken is me watching this video
Whoopi is a Caryn with a C, shocker.
The Edge from U2, David Evans. Bea Arthur, Bernice Frankel. John Denver, Henry John Duchendorf. The list goes on.
Comedian and Academy Award winning actor Albert Brook's real name is Albert Einstein. Don't take much a scientist to know why he changed his name.
It
Was worse for Michael keaton who has as real name the name of Michael Douglas like the son of the famous kirk Douglas.
Meanwhile, I'm a scientist and there's a famous local comedian who shares the name with me.
Boy, Britney Murphy wanted to hide all traces of being Italian descent.
There is a big reason or reasons for it.
@@Trancymind would you care to explain/elaborate on your comment? (I’m curious to see what racist direction you’re implying)
@@MikeCee7 You are already making racist assumptions without knowing Murphys personal reason/s.
David Bowie’s real name is David Jones. But he change it because of Davy Jones from the Monkeys.
Really? That would be like The Rolling Stones changing their name because of a Bob Dylan song. But I guess Jones wouldn't have the same ring to it as Bowie. Unless of course you were John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin.
@@siralleycat9141 I’m not sure which came first, if the Rolling Stones were a rock group, or the Bob Dylan song. I’m too tired to google that. But it’s nowhere near the same analogy, one the name of a band, and one is a lyric in a song. & one is plural and when is singular.
Many famous people have changed their name because it was the same as another famous person’s name. Michael Keaton’s real name is Michael Douglas. (so he changed it to get them into SAG, & cause of any confusion)
Katy Perry’s real name is Kate Hudson, which is the name of Goldie Hawn’s daughter who was an actress before Katy Perry was famous.
It’s a well-known fact that David Bowie changed his name because of Davy Jones being famous on the Monkeys.
& he chose the name “Bowie” as in the knife, because he liked the name of Mick Jagger’s name was a type of blade.
@@MikeCee7 Yes, I changed my name myself when I was knighted. I was being confused with a common fence singer.
@@siralleycat9141 what’s a “fence” singer? (or did you mean “French” singer) Yeah I can relate to your name changing story as well, because when I won the Nobel Peace prize in Oslo, I had to change my name to not to protect myself after becoming a millionaire I didn’t want all my relatives coming after me, asking for money😂
@@MikeCee7 Black and orange stray cat sitting on a "fence", ain't got enough dough to pay the rent...
Some of them use modified versions of their real names, others just changed them completely.
Spotted that, huh?
No they actually come from different ethnic backgrounds not actually just American
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Rooney Mara (Patricia Rooney Mara)
Katheryn Winnick (Katerena Anna Winitska)
Jamie Bell (Andrew James Bell)
Andy Garcia (Andrés Arturo Garcia Menendez)
Sigourney Weaver (Susan Alexandra Weaver)
Jack Lemmon (John Uhler Lemmon)
Mickey Rourke (Philip Andre Rourke Jr)
Bo Derek (Mary Cathleen Collins)
Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz)
Geena Davis (Virginia Elizabeth Davis)
Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson MacDowell)
Ali McGraw (Elizabeth Alice McGraw)
Birdy (Jasmine Van Den Bogaerde)
Bella Thorne (Annabella Avery Thorne)
Brad Pitt (William Bradley Pitt)
Ally Sheedy (Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy)
Kat Dennings (Katherine Victoria Litwack)
Sheena Easton (Sheena Shirley Orr)
Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatrocchio)
Deniece Williams (June Deniece Chandler)
Olivia Munn (Lisa Olivia Munn)
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mr. Ray Norris, what should we call you?
Call me chuck, it's the nickname I gave to my right foot that will hit you in the face...
Carlos Ray Norris is a pointless right-wing hack
There's alot of that these days
He really is Chuck Norris. Carlos is Latin for Charles and Chuck is short for Charles thus Chuck Norris.
@@johnnybravado7141 That's what I thought, same for Charlie Sheen.
@@johnnybravado7141
Ave, populus, latine for Charles Is Carolus.
Emma stone actually doesn't have a different name Emily is just the full way to say it and she doesn't like to use the Middle name
She changed Emily to Emma because there was already an actress called Emily Stone. She prefers to be called Emily
Ringo Starr is Richard Starky.
Morrissey, is Stephen Patrick Morrissey.
I was waiting for someone to bring my handle in this
I live at Frances Ethel Gumms childhood home as I write this.
Grand Rapids MN?
How was last winter?
@@arvidlystnur4827 No. not the one she was born in the one she moved to when she was 16.
Thanks,
Up in Grand Rapids they have a Judy Garland museum and I think a festival one day each year.
Maybe gossip but Judy was asked to visit and she supposedly said I don't know or remember anyone up there.
@@arvidlystnur4827 Thatd be wild.
Wonder what Liza Minelli's real name is since she was the daughter of the late Frances Gumms.
Knowing Whoopi is actually just a Caryn makes so much sense now.
Vin Diesel's real name is Vincent Gass O'lyne.
It was too Irish.
I'm guessing Katie Perry changed her name to avoid comparing to Kate Hudson just like Michael Keaton to Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas changed his name to Michael Keaton to please Kirk Douglas and his son Michael, but why didn't Diane Keaton make him change his name to something else? There used to be a co-host on tv named Mike Douglas (but I guess he was dead by then). Aren't there 2 Andrew McCarthys and 2 David Axelrods (a Democrat in office and a musician who wrote the piece for a movie)? I used to know a Jim O'Keefe, but he was not in office anywhere.
With Katy Perry is true I once watched her interview saying so
Nicolas Cage wanted to make it 9n his own merit and not use his family to his advantage.
It's most often a question of registration
@@virginiaconnor8350- Michael Douglas got registered first in the Actors union in Hollywood before Michael Keaton started his career. He intentionally used Keaton after watching Diane Keaton in Annie hall. As long the first name is different it's OK. Like Buster Keaton.
Comedian and Academy Award winning actor Albert Brook's real name is Albert Einstein. Don't take much a scientist to know why he changed his name.
Bonnie Tyler - gaynor hopkins
Brie larson - brianne sidonie desaulniers
Tom Cruise's full name sounds dope
I remember seeing an interview with Gene Simmons where he said he changed his name because his given name sounded like a cat starting to cough up a hair ball. HA HA HA
Marc Sinclair isn't a bad name to be honest, but "Vin Diesel" definitely is a more fitting name for an action star
Charles Bronson : Charles Dennis Buchinsky
Charlton Heston: John Charlton Carter
and more...
Yea but Bronson’s father changed his last name also. They are Lithuanian descent so before Bushinsky they were Bučinskas (or Buchinskas). That is real Lithuanian last name. Buchinsky is not,…closer to Russian.
I think some of them with a long unusual original names would still stick to the fans, like Jean Claude Van Damme
Miley Cyrus real name feels way more artistic than Miley.
I live that Whoopi Goldberg is actually a real Caryn 😂😂😂😂
At the 2:31 mark, Olivia Wilde's real name could sounds like it is an STD symptom. It is "Olivia Cockburn". Say it real slow.
Well, except that the name is pronounced Coburn. But yes I’m sure junior high school was great fun for her
@@joehaas6129bro when I read her name my mind doesn't think cohburn it goes to COCKBURN 🍆🔥
I didn't see Engelbert Humperdink on the list. That was his stage name.
I would have thought that would have been a name to change FROM.
@badeugenecops4741
It wasn't, it was his stage name. I think he was a little miffed when someone suggested he not use his given name. So his choice was a bit of "up yours".
Wow, this is such an eye-opening video! I can't believe some of these real names. 😲
So Reese Witherspoon's real name is Reese Witherspoon. Wow.
Joaquin and his siblings had a very messed-up childhood where their family was involved in a cult. When they eventually escaped it, they changed their name to Phoenix to represent they starting a new life
That, plus the fact that Bottom is a terrible surname
@@taand4725yup maybe I his wasn't Joaquin but something like Herbert bottom would fit better 😂
And where is Paul Stanley from Kiss,? Born as Stanley Bert Eisen...
Marion Morrison is a really cool name
For à girl ... yes 😂
Not for the symbol of the american virility.
@@jean-louispech4921true but at that time it was a guys name, it became a girls name later on similar to leslie
@@JB-gv3lo
It was a game mixing feminity with à feminine first name, and masculine, horror name with Manson, reference to the serial killer.
Demetria Devonne sounds more cool than Demi Lovato to be honest
I can see why Olivia Wilde changed her last name 😂
🍆🔥ouch
Here's two more you could've had on there:
1. Tim Allen (Real Name : Timothy Alan Dick)
2. Liam Neeson (Real Name : WIlliam John Neeson OBE)
Liam is the shorten form of William.
So Rihanna's real name is Rihanna...
Every time I hear of Her, my wife's a big fan, I think of the old Fleetwood Mac song that had a similar name...
Paul McCartney is James Paul McCartney.
Dido - Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
Helen Mirren is incorrect. Her name is Helen Lydia Mironoff.
- hello my name is michael Douglas
- sorry it is already a famous name
- but it is my real name for me
- too late, he is too famous
- ok my name is michael keaton...
It's fitting that Whoopi is a caryn
Bill Pitt doesn’t sound right
i understand you olivia wilde, i understand you....
🍆🔥😂😂😂haha
They forgot to add the legendary Bruce Lee....
I always thought that Diane and Michael were related lol
No he changed his name because he admired Diane and because there was already an actor with the name Michael Douglas .
@@Shadowman820 I already know about the Micheal Douglas part or my other factor is the early 20th actor Buster Keaton. Plus Micheal Douglas' ( the one we all know) dad Kirk has a European sounding name before he changed it
@@thenewjord50 yeah sometimes they are told to change their names by agents because they think they'll get less work if their real names sound too ethnic .
@@Shadowman820 they even tried that to Leonardo DiCapiro when he was young and want him to go by Lenny Williams
One time, my family was flying to California, and my brother and I were like, "Is that Alice Cooper?" Then suddenly, my mom yells out, "Vinny!" Then Alice Cooper turns around and yells back,"Suzy Q, " and he runs over and gives my mom a hug. 😮 My brother and I were shocked! Apparently, they went to high school together in Arizona and were friends, and we had no idea. Wtf mom!! It's probably one of the coolest moments of my life as an 80's kid.
Vin Diesel NOOOOOOO!😢
Fernanda Montenegro's true name is Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres. Silvio Santos's is Senor Abravanel. Xuxa's is Maria das Graças Meneghel. Angélica's is Angélica Ksyvickis Huck.
Soooo...Freddie Mercury went by the name Seymour Skinner when he was working for Supernintendo Chalmers ?
Vin diesel name is Sinclair ans Chuck Norris name is Carlos......I JUST BECOME AN ALCOHOLIC
Snoop name is CORDOZAR WTFFFF
You forgot to add Prince Harry's last name which is Windsor, but still, very interesting video!
No their real name is Battenburg.
Disappointed that you didn't include Akon..
Tom Cruise real name sounds like an egyptian Pharaoh.
It's Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
😂
I didn't know that Louis C K is Hungarian, and that Ben Affleck also has a Hungarian second name
For now on im call John Wayne ,"Marion "
I always find it funny (but also logical) that some of that names were changed because the original ones are too long
I would have changed my last name too if it was Cockburn😂😂
If my name was Frances Ethel Gumm, I'd change it, too!
I’m not surprised Maurice Mickelwhite, Norma Mortenson, Archie Leach, Demi Guynes and Frances Gumm changed their names.
Eric Bishop, Bernard Schwartz, Amanda Rogers and Robyn Fenty sound like nice folks who’d sell you insurance.
Onika Maraj is a cool name though and I think Margarita Cansino would keep her real name nowadays.
I love seeing the ancestry/heritage in their real names.
If their listed age was their age at the time their picture was taken, makes sense,otherwise, it’s nonsense as many of them have been dead for a while.
Rita Hayworth 🇪🇦+🇮🇪
Martin Sheen 🇪🇦+🇮🇪
Martin Sheen father was from Galicia, Spain. A very proudly Celtic tradition region.
Martin mother was from Ireland, Éire. A very proudly Celtic country.
Celtic on both sides.
only Charlie Sheen's brother Emilio kept using the family name, Estevez.
Había leído que Don Ramón Estévez (Mr. Martin) era de ascendencia española, pero no sabía que justo de Galicia, mirá vos.... Pero puede que se haya puesto el nombre en inglés por la pronunciación o exigencias de Hollywood.... 🤷♀️
Carry Grant’s Hollywood name is a thousand times better than his birth name,
Agreed 😂 and he grew up dirt poor and had to share shoes he was the only one of his siblings to survive to adulthood. Man they really molded him into a star didnt they
I wondered if some even remember their given names any longer.
I'm certain they do. Stage names have been a thing since at least Vaudeville if not a lot further back. It's a business decision and branding.
Why would I never believe that Beyonce's real name is Beyonce Knowles?
So many goofy names over the years, Stuffy McInnis, Gifford Pinchot, Hubert Cumberdale, Goose Gossage, Walter Sobchak, Howie Feltercrotch, Jack Mioff and Dixon Kuntz.
Hey, you mean his mom didn't really name him The Weekend. :(
Interesting trivia with David Copperfield. There is a character called Tess Kotkin in a game called Snowbreak Containment Zone who's hobby is being a magician. Of course in the game she has some assets that are distracting enough to make any trick work perfectly. Giggity.
Shania Twain is getting close to being 60....damn
Now I know that Van Damme real name is Camille!
Mr T
"I petty da fool that knows my real name"
I don't blame Olivia wilde changed her name
Billie Eilish's "real name" is like a long stage name than a real name.
Chuck Norris name is Carlos? 😂
Who knew that Kelly Preston had a Hawaiian middle name🤙💃🏽🌺💟
Kamelelehua💕Beautiful 🌟❤️
And, it says she's 57. Actually, she pased away in 2020.
Kelly Preston actually has some hawaiian ancestry , believe it or not
CeeLo Green - Thomas DeCarlo Callaway
Strangely, he shares my surname, my wife's maiden name of Green and even my birthday but he's a year older than me. Never met him, though...
Michael Caine had to choose an artist name. He saw two movie billboards. It was close his name to be "Michael 101 Dalmatians" but he choose name after "the Caine mutiny".
Some have really long complicated names.
I find stage name vs “real” name fascinating. Some of these folks have changed their name to the stage name; the “real” name is gone. Some mostly go by the stage name but have a different name legal name. For some, the stage name is just a label and go by the “real” name in most circumstances.
Verdine White, bass player of Earth Wind & Fire
Was born Verdine Adams, Jr.
He changed his name to Verdine White when he joined the band founded by his older half-brother, Maurice White
Mostly all of them have cool names. Especially the foreign ones
Pretty cool. Obviously some are just shortened versions of their real name, while others altered the spelling, or changed the name to Americanize it. But a lot of them changed the entire name for obvious reasons, and I probably would have too.
Where’s Sia?
Haha... here.. 🙋♀️ no just joking...
Jaimee Foxworth that played the character Judy Winslow on Family Matters real name is Jamie Foxx. It was changed because Jamie Foxx ( Eric Bishop) already had her name.