Keen to avoid accusations of securing an unfair Hollywood advantage via his Oscar-winning uncle Francis, he went incognito as Cage. The sister of Kit Culkin and aunt of McCauley, Kieran and Rory, simply dropped the ‘Culkin’, presumably to carve a niche separate to her acting sibling’s. He went for the initial ‘J’ instead, in homage to Bonnie & Clyde actor Michael J. Pollard. Kufrin and her fiancé Garrett Yrigoyen split months after controversial … In the final episode of Series 1, Captain Tom Ryan is killed off, and Claudia Brown disappears. As we’ve seen, Michael J. She says she wanted a single-syllable surname to contrast with the longer Elizabeth, “so I made a list and then alphabetised it, and Banks was the first one on the list. Becca believes Homelander is trying to turn Ryan against her, but Homelander assures her he just wants what's best for Ryan because he was raised the exact same way as Ryan. He’s since said he regrets not sticking with his family name, and that the change disappointed his father. She immigrated to Canada in 1951 to study social work at McGill University (BA) and the University of British Columbia (Masters of Social Work). No such concerns for LL. Our guy’s is a more sk8er boi spelling. Reason for change: The ‘Mickey’ comes from the 78 comedy shorts Rooney starred in as ‘Mickey McGuire’ between 1927 and 1936 – he even legally changed his name to Mickey McGuire for a short time to (unsuccessfully) try and stave off a law suit from the owners of the comic strip on which the films were based. Bowie’s name change was inspired by his love for U.S. culture and ultimately the 1960 movie The Alamo, author John Lyons wrote in his book, America in the British Imagination: 1945 to the Present. She’s now married to retired judge Charles Rubin. Fox might sound vain. She describes herself as being of “Filipino, Spanish and Chinese descent, raised in Hawaii’, and took the stage-name ‘Carrere’ as a homage to Nicaraguan Bond girl Barbara Carrera. When the "Judge Judy" star, 76, recently grew her hair out, her longtime bailiff, Petri Hawkins Byrd, weighed in on social media. The rest of the cast carries over into Series 2. Kufrin told Insider that she would ask them who they had voted for in the election. https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/noah-brown-wife-rhain-rain-name-165582 Reason for change: Divorce again. They relocated again in 1965, this time to Paris, where Reno attended drama school and began his acting career. Various explanations for this include Goldberg’s own claim that the name is genuinely “a part of my family somewhere”, and the story that her mother thought a serious Jewish name would take her further in showbiz. Find out why Hannah Brown's "The Bachelorette" winner changed. Curtis, he says, in an anglicised version of ‘Kurtz’, a name from his mother’s side of the family. Reason for change: He says he wanted to make a distinction between the public Jonathan Rhys Meyers, “this different person who I suppose doesn’t really exist”, and the private Johnny O’Keefe, “who sits at home and plays his guitar badly”. Cube says the name came from “My brother, when I was little, because I was too cool for my age. Reason for change: It’s not really clear what was wrong with ‘Horowitz’, but the stage name ‘Ryder’ was an impromptu decision. Reason for change: Foxx adopted his stage name in 1989 when he started playing comedy clubs. The Crown Season 3 follows Queen Elizabeth II as she reluctantly embraces middle age and takes on the challenges of a bold, new era: the late ’60s.. She picked one of her one-on-one dates with Blake on The Bachelorette. ‘Judy’ certainly came from a Hoagy Carmichael song popular at the time. Details about the never-ending drama at the link in the bio!⁠. Reason for change: In a word, nepotism. The surname was her stepfather’s: her mother remarried when Ginger was nine. Reason for change: Fearing that Van Varenberg was too unwieldy for his intended American audiences, Van Damme initially opted for ‘Frank Cujo’ until association with Stephen King’s rabid St. Bernard made it untenable. ‘Charlton Heston’ is derived from his mother’s maiden name and his stepfather’s surname. All await you among the 50 that follow…. Betty Perske? All images are used with permission or licensed. We’d assume Alan chose ‘Alan’ as a more neutral ‘Al’ name than Alphonso. It was either after Carole Lombard’s character in Twentieth Century, the drama critic Robert Garland, or because their father once said the girls looked “prettier than a garland of flowers”. Like most little girls, Doris liked to dance. Reason for change: Sylveste McCoy (no ‘R ‘yet) was a character that the future Seventh Doctor and Radagast the Brown played in Ken Campbell’s mad Roadshow act: given to setting his head on fire and hammering nails up his nose. Reason for change: Showbiz rapper bravado. The story goes that Dirk ate some particularly good eggs Benedict at a restaurant on his way to signing up to the Screen Actors Guild. Her surname change occurred when Mindy started doing stand-up. The name itself seems to have been attached to him in reference to the comedy bandleader Spike Jones. Pollard’s stands for John. He seems to have arrived at his new surname as a sort of process of escalation: it translates as something like ‘Stormer’. His daughter said that was nonsense, so we may never know how he landed on it. They liked Mindy from the Robin Williams show Mork & Mindy so went for that. 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Reason for change: Having decided he’d prefer a stage name, Wilder got ‘Gene’ from Eugene Gant, a character in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. She had two brothers, Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older. Reason for change: You’d think being the namesake of an Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian superhero would be cool, but even before his stage name, John Carter went by variations of his middle name: Chuck and Charlie. Real name: Jean-Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg. Reason for change: The Screen Actors Guild. As a young student, Brown encountered both sexism and racism first-hand when applying for housing or summer jobs, or simply fitting into university life. Her father Michael Horowitz happened to be listening to a Mitch Ryder album, when Winona’s agent called to ask what name she wanted in the credits of 1986 teen romance Lucas. Tennant opted for ‘Tennant’ in homage to his favourite Scottish lager Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys. Homelander assures her that the moment Ryan is exposed to the outside world, he will freak out just like Homelander did. Reason for change: Maybe to disguise the fact that he’s related to the billionaire Spiegel catalogue dynasty. ‘Meyers’ is his mother’s maiden name. His mother suggested ‘Mickey Looney’, but he altered it to Rooney, feeling it slightly more sensible. Reason for change: Brown is the surname of Blake’s father Ernie, who took the surname of his wife, Elaine Lively, when they got married. Reason for change: Laurel headed for the American vaudeville stage (in the Fred Karno troupe, along with Charlie Chaplin) as Stan Jefferson in 1910. Becca Kufrin and fiancé Garrett Yrigoyen split more than two years after getting engaged on The Bachelorette . Rosemary Brown was born in Jamaica to a politically minded family. Reason for change: The A-Team’s Face Man changed his name at the suggestion of his agent, presumably on the grounds of pronunciation and spelling. So he literally picked his new surname from a menu. When her mother was pregnant, her parents decided to move to the US from Nigeria and wanted to give her a "cute American name". The origin of ‘Garland’ is less clear. He chose ‘Martin’ after Robert Dale Martin, the CBS casting executive. There are various stories about where ‘Woody’ came from. Reason for change: The name Whoopi apparently stems from her flatulent antics in early-career dressing rooms, whence her fellow cast mates dubbed her ‘Whoopi Cushion’. Phil Clapp? Banks was forced to change her name because Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell, four years her senior, was already on the books. Fox’s doesn’t really stand for anything at all. Humphrey Bogart, my hero, was starring in The Caine Mutiny. Reason for change: On the surface simply a creative re-spelling of ‘Michael T’. Reason for change: Audiences laughed at Caine’s early ‘Maurice Micklewhite’ credits - as did The Muppets, years later (look at the names of the shops here at the 2.47 mark) - so he initially opted for ‘Michael Scott’ as “less risible”, until the fact of another Michael Scott on (actor’s union) Equity’s books forced a rethink. She lifted it from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Sigourney Howard is Jordan Baker’s never-seen aunt. Hannah Brown is The Bachelorette this season. Lucy Brown plays a new character, Jenny Lewis, a savvy PR person and a doppelgänger of Claudia, but unlike her, she has no romantic attachment to Cutter and resents him referring to her as "Claudia". Reason for change: Frances, Mary Jane and Dorothy performed for a time as vaudeville dancers The Gumm Sisters, before tittering audiences (and at least one mis-billing as ‘The Glum Sisters’) prompted a name change. ‘Skeet’ is a nickname the actor picked up in childhood, playing little-league baseball: his coach dubbed him ‘Skeeter’ (diminutive/slang for ‘mosquito’) because he was small and skinny. The first Alda was Alan’s father, actor and singer Robert (born Alphonso Giuseppi Giovanni Roberto D’Abruzzo). Brown is an English-language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. Mindy revealed that she's never been called by her first name, Vera. He was clearly fine with it though, and later dropped the ‘Bum’ legally. He was always Mickey from then on, although he wasn’t allowed to keep on using the McGuire bit. He initially went by ‘Anthony’, which he got from Hervey Allen’s adventure melodrama Anthony Adverse: “the first novel I ever read”. Hannah is a devout Christian — something she mentions quite often on Instagram. Reason for change: Bryan Trout? Reason for change: Natalie did some early childhood work as Hershlag, but adopted ‘Portman’ for Luc Besson’s Leon. Becca Kufrin told Matt James the question she'd ask contestants if she did " Bachelorette" again. Just to be confusing, Asia Carrera took her name from Tia, but spells it Barbara’s way. But for some reason it isn’t. Reason for change: Jewish performers anglicising their names was simply the done thing in the ‘50s, “to simplify pronunciation, to enhance euphony [and] disarm bigotry”. Baby Gene's new middle name is still a reference to Amy … Reason for change: The future dancing partner of Frederick Austerlitz was dubbed ‘Ginger’ in childhood by her younger sister, who could only approximate ‘Ginga’ for Virginia. It is the second most common surname in Canada and Scotland, third most common in Australia and the United Kingdom and fourth most common in England and the United States. He apparently dropped that moniker due to superstition, realising that it had 13 letters. Reason for change: The old actors’ union chestnut: another David McDonald on the books at Equity. Real name: Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith. Reason for change: At their mother’s suggestion, Fred and his sister Adele adopted a new surname, fearing that their real one sounded too militaristic (it’s a famous Napoleonic battle). It is one of the most common surnames in English-speaking countries. Reason for change: Reno was born in Casablanca, Morocco, where his Spanish-Andalusian parents had fled to North Africa to escape Franco’s dictatorship. After graduating, Equity forced her to change her birth name, Lily Thomson, as there was already an actress with the same name. Fox’. Which is cool, because The Beckinghamster doesn’t have quite the same ring as The Peggster. He hit on ‘Jamie’ as something gender ambiguous, having noted that female performers usually got called to the stage first. VAT no 918 5617 01, H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. Her brother Andrew of the folk-rock band Billy Pilgrim, kept the Polish Hyra. A friend meanwhile, says he named himself after the dog belonging to his unrequited love Nancy Kreissman. His co-performer Brian Murphy came up with the name. Reason for change: He thought ‘Buchinsky’ sounded too Russian. All registered in England and Wales. Reason for change: You’d think it was self-explanatory, but it was actually to avoid his family’s embarrassment over his choice of career (his brothers were all in the British foreign service). Her parents divorced while she was still a child and she lived with her mother. Reason for change: Nobody likes ‘Bum’ in their name, although the decision was actually made for him. Reason for change: A surname that sounds like an STD is clearly not a good idea for showbiz, hence the adoption of his middle name and his hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee. Warner Bros. credited him as ‘Garner’ in Toward The Unknown without even asking him. He said he chose ‘Boris’ because it sounded exotic, and claimed that ‘Karloff’ was a Slavic branch on his family tree. Her grandparents were all German immigrants. From Caine’s autobiography The Elephant To Hollywood: “I went and sat down on a bench in the middle of Leicester Square. She’s actually Italian(they typically have dark/black hair and olive skin). ‘Wilde’ came from Oscar, obvs. Brown, 28, reveals in Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life that he was 15 when he met the 29-year-old Barbadian singer, then age 16, at a 2004 show in New York City. Juan becomes Jean, and Reno takes the weight for the rest. ‘Sheen’ comes from the Catholic televangelist Fulton J. Sheen, whom Estevez considered ‘a magnificent actor’. Reason for change: Finding that his genuine moniker was attracting prejudice at auditions, Ramon felt a stage name was in order. Real name: Maud Solveig Christina Wikstrom. Caine I would be – because it was short, because it was easy to spell, because I was feeling very mutinous at the time…”. C’mon. Reason for change: Olivia says she became Wilde while still at school “as an homage to the writers in my family, many of whom created pen names for their careers” (her grandfather was the pseudonymous James Helvick, who wrote Beat The Devil). I was always trying to talk to his women.”. Reason for change: Grant worked as Archie Leech at the start of his career, but his name was deemed unacceptable by Paramount once he went under contract to them. “The Bachelor’s” Kit Keenan joins Rachel and Becca and talks about why she hates being called a “socialite,” why she came on the show in the first place, and the biggest misconceptions people have about her. See what Becca Brown (jadie2bird46) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. Reason for change: Carrying on the family tradition. #90DayFiance's Evelin Villegas calls Laura Jallali the ‘most disliked person’ on the show. Bryan Trout? Not, as David Baddiel has suggested, short for Lionel Lionel Cool J, his moniker is a reduction of Ladies Love Cool James. However, fearing ‘Cushion’ was too daft a surname she opted for Goldberg instead. Around 1844, Harriet married John Tubman, a free Black man, and changed her last name from Ross to Tubman. One of America's most prolific actresses was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master. Allen says it came from his being handy with the wooden Stickball bat as a kid. ‘Portman’ is the maiden name of her paternal grandmother. The marriage was not good, and the knowledge that two of her … Fox was wary of dubbing himself ‘A. Bauer Media Group consists of: Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number: 01176085, Bauer Radio Ltd, Company Number: 1394141, Registered Office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA H Bauer Publishing,Company Number: LP003328, Registered Office: Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DT. Post-Campbell, McCoy just kept it, but added the R. Reason for change: There was already a Michael Andrew Fox in the Screen Actors Guild, and the Back To The Future star feared that calling himself Michael A. He chose Grant from a list they gave him, reasoning that the initials ‘GC’ had worked well enough for Gary Cooper. Reason for change: Chan briefly worked construction in Australia in his early 20s, hanging around a lot with a co-worker called Jack and thereby earning himself the nickname ‘Little Jack’. Becca seemed to prefer being called by her first name rather than having any of her titles used, telling Clarke Griffin that "Becca's fine" when Clarke called her Becca Pramheda and telling the Second Dawn to call her by her first name rather than Doctor Franko. https://www.capitalfm.com/artists/miley-cyrus/real-birth-name-destiny-hope He’s thought to have picked Laurel at the suggestion of his commonlaw wife Mae, who was inspired by a picture of a Roman general wearing a laurel wreath. ‘Ulrich’ comes from his stepfather, the NASCAR owner and driver DK Ulrich. “I was really upset,” she says. Reason for change: Howard Hawks changed Betty Perske’s un-glamorous name when he cast her in To Have And Have Not, as part of “building” the unknown model into a star from the ground up. A popular myth exists that the White House was first painted white to cover the scorch marks left after British soldiers set fire to the house during the War of 1812.Actually, the White House first gained a lime-based whitewash in 1798 to protect the exterior stone from moisture and cracking during winter freezes. Amy Schumer Reveals She Officially Changed Her Son's Name — and for a Hilarious Reason! Reason for change: See what she did there? He retuned to his original first name, and rightly hit on ‘Van Damme’ as a punchier surname, although its origin is disappointingly ordinary: it comes from a friend of his father. And Barbara’s real surname is Kingsbury. Ryan’s parents separated when she was 16, so Ryan opted to use her mother’s maiden name professionally. ‘Foxx’ is a tribute to comedy legend Redd Foxx. Alda is a portmanteau of the first two letters of Alphonso and D’Abruzzo. Related Opinion Like Alice Cooper, he kept the name into his solo career. Reason for change: Another name clash: there was another Peter Storm at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden when Stormare arrived. Empire Spoiler Special Podcast: WandaVision Episode 6, Donald Glover And Phoebe Waller-Bridge To Play Mr And Mrs Smith In TV Adaptation, Eva Green, Vincent Cassel And Oliver Jackson-Cohen On For New Three Musketeers Movies, Paranormal Activity: Will Eubank And Christopher Landon Working On Reboot, Zack Snyder's Justice League: New Trailer Online, Captain Marvel 2: Zawe Ashton Playing The Villain, Empire Podcast #451: George C. Wolfe, Juno Temple, Elijah Wood And Daniel Radcliffe Unite For Empire’s Harry Potter And Lord Of The Rings 20th Anniversary Issue, The Making Of Silence Of The Lambs: The Original Empire Feature, Adam Wingard Directing Face/Off Follow-Up, Following Empire’s all-singing, all dancing, ridiculously indispensible guide to Hollywood actor name pronunciation, here’s an equally essential digest of those actors and actresses who have dared to establish careers under names that do not necessarily belong to them. He started going by Spike Jonze in BMX and skateboard competitions as a yoot. Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, fans were asking Becca questions and one asked her to name the best date she had been on. And I called SAG and they said it was available, so I said, ‘I’ll take it!’ I just wanted it over with!”. It’s unclear where the ‘Rhys’ comes from. He apparently considered Mrots Retep (Peter Storm backwards) for a while. Reason for change: The rocker-turned-director’s original band was White Zombie, so as frontman and founder, ‘Rob Zombie’ was how he became known (see also Dani Filth, Clint Poppie, Monk Lewis etc.). Reason for change: The former model and twice Bond girl (much beloved of Roger Moore, who names her his favourite) still goes by the surname of her first husband, the photographer Roy Adams, though they divorced in 1975. She says she took on the stage name for the privacy of her family. Reason for change: ‘Tia’ is obviously a shortened ‘Althea’: it’s apparently the only way her younger sister could pronounce the name when she was little. Plus, she shares what she what learned watching back the show, and what she wishes she had done differently. Famously a comics geek, he lifted the name from Luke Cage, Marvel’s hero-for-hire Power Man. Real name: Jonathan Michael Francis O’Keeffe. I looked around at all the cinemas… and then I saw it. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Carrera was her mother’s maiden name. Reason for change: No great mystery. So legally you’d imagine ‘Lively’ actually is her name. If Brown returns to her said runner up, it would be a flashback to the Arie Luyendyk / Becca Kufrin situation. So the process here is basically the Gallicising of his Spanish-sounding name. Hannah Brown Reacts to Jennifer Aniston's Diss About Her on 'Bachelor' It’s over. ‘Wilder’ he took from American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. See also: John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda. Reason for change: Curtis, who served on submarines in WWII, says he “despised the name Schwarz and its German ancestry” during the ‘30s and ‘40s, so changed it when he went under contract to Universal. She didn’t deliberately name herself after a Blue Peter presenter. Reason for change: Judd’s parents divorced when she was four, so she goes by the maiden name of her mother, country singer Naomi Judd. Her name “Grande” may sound “Hispanic”, and that can lead someone people to assume she is of “Hispanic” origin. Bacall was her mother’s maiden name (actually Weinstein-Bacal, but she too changed it to Bacall later), and Hawks must just have liked ‘Lauren’. ‘Astaire’ possibly comes from an uncle whose name was L’Astaire, though it seems that might be family myth. Reason for change: There was another Tom Moore in the Actors’ Equity Association (the stage version of SAG), so change was necessary. Pegg’s parents divorced when he was seven, and when his mother remarried he took his stepfather’s name. Johnny O’Keeffe? I love Ariana Grande-Butera! He adopted ‘Berenger’ from his best friend at high school (actually Behringer). Reason for change: Perhaps thinking ‘Susan Weaver’ was not a name that would stand out on a marquee, the future Ripley started going by ‘Sigourney’ in 1963. The queen of YA smoulder talks to site member Lottie is Dottie about her love of Wuthering Heights, her new book Dangerous Lies and how glad she is … That then became Jackie, and stuck. His wife Sheri Moon Zombie was born Sheri Lyn Skurkis, and his brother Michael David Cummings is Spider One from the industrial metal band Powerman 5000. So legally you’d imagine ‘Lively’ actually is her name. Now, with “Brown Skin Girl,” she has gone a step further, specifically highlighting the beauty of those women, like her daughter Blue Ivy, who could never pass a paper bag test. 845898). ABC/Ed Herrera. NASHVILLE, Tennessee- Becca Bowen is an up-and-coming country artist whose Southern Belle exterior and tomboy personality have earned her the nickname “Country Barbie.” This personal fitness instructor is the single mother of two teenage girls. Linda Brown was the child associated with the lead name in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, which led to the outlawing of U.S. school segregation in 1954. At fourteen, she formed a dance act wit… Reason for change: Brown is the surname of Blake’s father Ernie, who took the surname of his wife, Elaine Lively, when they got married. ‘Bronson’ comes from Bronson Avenue in Hollywood, location of the famous gates of Paramount Studios. Looks like Judge Judith Sheindlin isn't the only one with an opinion! His son Emilio, of course, kept it, while Charlie Sheen has just been “introduced” as ‘Carlos Estevez’ in Machete Kills. He wanted to be ‘Cary Lockwood’ after the character in The Last Flight, but Paramount also nixed the Lockwood part.