![]() ![]() Michael Caine was born with Maurice Micklewhite, but opted to use as his last name Humphrey Bogart’s character in The Caine Mutiny. She grabbed the last name from the famous silent movie comedian Buster Keaton and her then-boyfriend and director Woody Allen used her real last name for her eponymous character in Annie Hall. Portia De Rossi had a rather simple name, Amanda Lee Rogers, and went the other way by making it sound more exotic.ĭiane Keaton's real name is Diane Hall. His birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji.Īctress Olivia Wilde started with the name Olivia Jane Cockburn, but dropped that tough to deal with last name that suggest to the mean kids "penis."Īctor Alan Alda seems to have gone pretty far away from his given name of Alphonso d’Abruzzo, but he came up with that surname by putting together the first two letters of his first and last name. But she did get to name her 30 Rock character Liz.īen Kingsley, perhaps best known for playing Gandhi, was born, like Barack Obama, to a white mother and Kenyan father of Indian Muslim descent. Rather than shorten her first name, Tina Fey shortened her middle name: Elizabeth Stamatina Fey. Though I have read that the actor got his name from his grandmother who liked the traditional English song “The Ballad of Chevy Chase.” I always suspected that it had something to do with the city Chevy Chase in Maryland. Joaquin Phoenix's real name is Joaquin Rafael Bottom.Ĭhevy Chase rejected his given name of Cornelius Crane Chase. Woody Allen did a switch from his original Allen Konigsberg.Ĭomedian Louis C.K.'s real name is Louis Szekely which is really just just an easier way to say his actual last name, which is pronounced “See-kay.” Another Hollywood namechanger was the Swedish Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, better known as Greta Garbo. Born to Russian immigration parents, the change was not unusual at the time. Natalie Wood, probably under pressure from a film studio, Americanized her given name: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. Bruce Willis was born as Walter Willis and Ashton was born with the name Christopher Kutcher.Īlbert Brooks chose that name although I doubt that any of us would confuse him with his real name twin: Albert Einstein.Īctress Meg Ryan went for shortening her real name of Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra. ![]() She must be into pseudonyms because two of her exes used them too. Natalie Portman is a dual Israeli and American citizen who used her grandmother’s maiden name as a surname rather than her birth name, Herschlag.ĭemi Moore's real name is Demetria Guynes. here are some "stage names" used by actors and directors. We have written before about the use of pseudonyms by different groups. ![]()
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