@@sarco64 But difficult for many to pronounce. Mayer wanted something that combined star power with the common touch. He reckoned 'LeSueur' sounded too much like 'the sewer'. The new name was suggested by a member of the public who entered a fan mag competition.
Emma Stone took Emma as her professional name only because there was already Emily Stone registered at SAG when she started acting. She says she’s seriously thinking about going back to using her real name as her professional name….
Michael Caine's original first name (Maurice) is actually pronounced "Morris," as it generally is in England. (I've heard him pronounce it that way.) It probably still would be in the U.S. if it weren't for M. Chevalier.
John Wayne's REAL name was Marion Michael Morrison -- not 'Robert'! This post is already screwed up less than 15 people in. If you are going to post, at least make it right!
A good example was an English actor named Stewart Granger. Original name: James Stewart. Apparently there was already some American actor who went by that name. Hence the name change.
You are right about the name Carlos. You are also right about Hollywood not liking Jewish names. Kirk Douglas wrote in his autobiography that he had a lot of problems finding work - and not just in Hollywood - because of his name and it wasn't until he fronted up for a job and introduced himself as "Donny Dempsey" that he finally got some work.
Starting in the late 18th century Jews in Europe were compelled by law to take surnames. Therefore some artists choose a stage name that does not reflect the oppression endured by their ancestors.
I am not a celeb afficionado yet... The video was extremely interesting! Thank you for putting all this effort into finding out their real names and making this vid so interesting. A++!
1. You mentioned Michael Caine and Ornella Mutti twice. 2.Wait, Tina Turner has the same last name as Sandra Bullock? 3. For the history, Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. But because there is a Michael Douglas already, he had to change his last name to Keaton.
On “The View” Asunción Hostin implied that Nikki Haley went by her middle name to hide her ethnicity. Hostin did not accuse Caryn Johnson of going by Goldberg so people would think Johnson was Jewish rather than African American.
Actually, she decided that a black female comic named Caryn Johnson was not memorable, but the cognative dissonance between a black woman and Whoopi Goldberg is unforgetable.
@@garethjones2596 Whoopie’s original stage name was Whoopie Cushion. Her mother told her that was undignified so she changed it to Goldberg. My comment was on Asunción Hostin’s hypocrisy.
Elton John's name was changed by Deed Poll, which is the legal way of changing your name in the UK. So his original birth name is irrelevant. He is legally called Elton Hercules John. It's not a stage name. He also now has a knighthood, so he is Sir Elton John.
0:54. Marilyn Monroe was her real name before she got married. Monroe was on her mother’s side. 1:35. Likewise Rita Hayworth chose her mother’s name. 2:55. I actually typed out his name from Dwight on a change of name deed.
@@marcusdarkallius1194BC What! I did a geneology test and so am I!! My christian name was Munro from which her family got her name. Her family came from the same small town of Tain in Scotland where my father came from. Her family left hundreds of years ago to go to America. Do you live in America then?
@@kirstymackenzie2437 Yes I do. I currently live in Indiana. My ancestors on my dad's side came from Scotland and Ireland. My mom's side from England, Wales and Germany.
Actually, Ms. Monroe's birth name was Mortenson. The name was from her mother Gladys' 2d husband (her biological father was a man with whom her mom had an affair). Monroe was her mother's maiden name.
I've read that Joan Fontaine took her mother's name, since her sister Olivia de Havilland was already an actress with the family name and their mother didn't want Joan to use it as well.
'Chuck Norris built the hospital he was born in' - Chuck's memes are great. Carlos is Spanish for Charles, basically he only uses the nickname of his name in English. Cheers!
Charles isn't really English, its French. The name barely existed in England until the Scottish Stuart dynasty took over in 1603. The Scots were very pro-French and even altered the spelling of the name 'Stewart. to a Gallo-friendly Stuart.
Cary Grant: Archibald Alexander Leach1 Kirk Douglas: Issur Danielovitch Judy Garland: Frances Ethel Gumm1 Joan Crawford: Lucille Fay LeSueur1 Marilyn Monroe: Norma Jeane Mortenson1 Olivia Colman: Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman Michael Caine: Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. Whoopi Goldberg: Caryn Elaine Johnson Rita Hayworth: Margarita Carmen Cansino1 John Wayne: Marion Robert Morrison1 Tina Turner: Anna Mae Bullock Tony Curtis: Bernard Schwartz1 Joan Fontaine: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland Woody Allen: Allan Stewart Konigsberg Vivien Leigh: Vivian Mary Hartley Natalie Wood: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko Elton John: Reginald Kenneth Dwight Sophia Loren: Sofia Villani Scicolone Meg Ryan: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra Jodie Foster: Alicia Christian Foster Christopher Walken: Ronald Walken Ben Affleck: Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt Billie Eilish: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell Vin Diesel: Mark Sinclair Vincent Ornella Muti: Francesca Romana Rivelli Jean-Claude Van Damme: Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg The Weeknd: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye2
Chuck Norris is not an alias. When Chuck served in the military, he was asked what Carlos meant in English. He replied "Chuck", and it stuck ever since. Also, why the repetition? You omitted my favourite. When Boris Karloff asked why he changed his name, he replied "I could never imagine Billy Pratt scaring anyone". Also, Michael Keaton prefers to be called by his real name and travels under it. He says a lot of limo drivers are surprised they are picking up Michael Keaton instead of Michael Douglas.
You mentioned both sir Michael Caine and Ornella Muti twice ! 😂
Michael Caine is American, while Sir Michael Caine is British. This is why people think he's in every movie ever made.
I think Lucille Lesueur is a much classier sounding name than Joan Crawford.
She clearly got tired of trying to get people to spell it correctly. Plus it sounds like "the sewer".
sounds like a stripper
@@sarco64 But difficult for many to pronounce. Mayer wanted something that combined star power with the common touch. He reckoned 'LeSueur' sounded too much like 'the sewer'. The new name was suggested by a member of the public who entered a fan mag competition.
I thought so too.
Some of those celebrities didn't have to change their names at all.
Joan Crawford's name was positively regal sounding.
@@olteddersalmost, but it sounded like 'the sewer', so ..
@@lindaf4836
Yep. Le Sewer.
My favorite is Piper Laurie, whose real name was Rosetta Jacobs.
David Bowie's real name was David Jones but since Davey Jones already was famous, he changed it to be different.
A few, I thought the original name was more memorable.
...und schöner!
Me too
I like Emily Stone...Emma Stone sounds plain
@@caramelbilqueesshe wanna sound more British.
Wow, The Weekend isn't his real name!
Could have been worse...
Like "That Weekend" !🤣
I thought it was 'Sr. Saturday N. Sunday.
It's spelled "WEEKND".
I think Maurice Micklewhite is an awesome name. The >original< Eminem.
What makes someone think that Whoopi is an improvement?
Someone who is a comedian.
Because she is so muck fun to watch look at the view sheep's the show freehand biios watchigaroud the word❤❤❤❤❤
She is notorious for farting and someone stated she was like a walking whoopi cushion....and it stuck
Out of all those celebrities and the one that struck your fancy was Whoopi Goldberg.
What was her former name now?
@@oltedders Ghoopi Woldberg
Emma Stone took Emma as her professional name only because there was already Emily Stone registered at SAG when she started acting. She says she’s seriously thinking about going back to using her real name as her professional name….
Same thing with David Walliams.
Or is it Whalliams ?🤔
Anyhow, there is a David Williams already...😳
When I joined SAG, there was a Tim O'Brien, Timothy O'Brien, and a Timothy F O'Brien, so I tried putting my middle name in full.
I think "Mark Sinclair" (which is pretty classy) wasn't blacky enough for Vin Diesel.. 🙂
He said the bouncers where he worked would call themselves '........ Diesel' so it stuck with him.
THE WEEKND isn’t his real name???! I’m stunned!
Michael Caine's original first name (Maurice) is actually pronounced "Morris," as it generally is in England. (I've heard him pronounce it that way.) It probably still would be in the U.S. if it weren't for M. Chevalier.
........As surely as Ralph is pronounced 'Rafe' in England. (Q.V. Ralph Fiennes).
@@Juliaflo Not necessarily, I understand.
At least 50% or more stars even these days use a stage name.
What's so unusual about that.
In the old days it was even more.
Many years ago a lot of performers changed their names. It was common practice.
Two Michael Caines, both called Maurice Mickelwhite, who would have guessed.
Robot narrated
I had to mute it.
Actually liv tyler is actually correct ,shes steven tylers daughter ,todd rungrin is her former step dad
John Wayne's REAL name was Marion Michael Morrison -- not 'Robert'! This post is already screwed up less than 15 people in. If you are going to post, at least make it right!
Very Entertaining! Thank you.
Actors generally change their first names or add a middle initial if some in SAG is already using it.
A good example was an English actor named Stewart Granger.
Original name: James Stewart.
Apparently there was already some American actor who went by that name. Hence the name change.
Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jean Baker and Tina Turner was Ella May Bullock.
Anna May Bullock ....
Donna Douglas is Ellie Mae Clampett. _Er, I mean Doris Ione Smith._
Marilyn's real name is Mortenson--she was raised by someone named Baker and assumed that last name for a wile.
Isn’t Carlos Spanish for Charles? Hollywood really doesn’t seem to like Jewish names imo.
You are right about the name Carlos. You are also right about Hollywood not liking Jewish names. Kirk Douglas wrote in his autobiography that he had a lot of problems finding work - and not just in Hollywood - because of his name and it wasn't until he fronted up for a job and introduced himself as "Donny Dempsey" that he finally got some work.
They like to keep a low profile in Hollywood despite being so instrumental in making it what it is today.
Starting in the late 18th century Jews in Europe were compelled by law to take surnames. Therefore some artists choose a stage name that does not reflect the oppression endured by their ancestors.
@@kimmathis1945
The 1st pope to change his name was named Mercury. He became Pope John I.
It's Spanish, he wanted an American version. He part Hispanic.
I am not a celeb afficionado yet...
The video was extremely interesting!
Thank you for putting all this effort into finding out their real names and making this vid so interesting.
A++!
Great work 👏❤
Keep it up and good luck 🤞
1. You mentioned Michael Caine and Ornella Mutti twice. 2.Wait, Tina Turner has the same last name as Sandra Bullock? 3. For the history, Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. But because there is a Michael Douglas already, he had to change his last name to Keaton.
Yeah, since Michael DANELOVICH stole it, he uses KEATON.
Are they related to 'JM J. BULLOCK?'
@@lindaf4836 I have no idea.
Their real names match their faces a lot better.
I love this video because they just show the celebrity name and their given name without any filler or story.
Michael Keaton is really Michael Douglas. Bob Dylan is really Robert Zimmerman.
Sylvester Stallone is michael!
@@yvonneholmes2990 I heard someone call out to him Mickey.
Ringo Starr ---Richard Starkey
That was not a picture of Judy Garland(the one in the cowboy hat).
I love this. Some interesting names indeed!
Cool video
---Tom Hanks--Forrest Gump.
Lt. Dan had space legs.
Reginald Kenneth Dwight looks so much like Q Elizabeth 2.
Many of these actors I new had birth names that were different. It's to bad that they don't just don't keep their original names.
On “The View” Asunción Hostin implied that Nikki Haley went by her middle name to hide her ethnicity. Hostin did not accuse Caryn Johnson of going by Goldberg so people would think Johnson was Jewish rather than African American.
Probably because she knows that Whoopi knows that a name change can't disguise her blackness.
Actually, she decided that a black female comic named Caryn Johnson was not memorable, but the cognative dissonance between a black woman and Whoopi Goldberg is unforgetable.
@@garethjones2596 Whoopie’s original stage name was Whoopie Cushion. Her mother told her that was undignified so she changed it to Goldberg. My comment was on Asunción Hostin’s hypocrisy.
Michael Caine is great in 'ZULU' 1964.
Elton John's name was changed by Deed Poll, which is the legal way of changing your name in the UK. So his original birth name is irrelevant. He is legally called Elton Hercules John. It's not a stage name. He also now has a knighthood, so he is Sir Elton John.
0:54. Marilyn Monroe was her real name before she got married. Monroe was on her mother’s side. 1:35. Likewise Rita Hayworth chose her mother’s name. 2:55. I actually typed out his name from Dwight on a change of name deed.
Marilyn Monroes name was Norma Jean Baker. My girlfriend did my genealogy and I'm a distant cousin to her.
@@marcusdarkallius1194BC What! I did a geneology test and so am I!! My christian name was Munro from which her family got her name. Her family came from the same small town of Tain in Scotland where my father came from. Her family left hundreds of years ago to go to America. Do you live in America then?
@@kirstymackenzie2437 Yes I do. I currently live in Indiana. My ancestors on my dad's side came from Scotland and Ireland. My mom's side from England, Wales and Germany.
@@marcusdarkallius1194BC Wow! So She came from where I lived to where you now live! So we could be distantly related! 🤣
Actually, Ms. Monroe's birth name was Mortenson. The name was from her mother Gladys' 2d husband (her biological father was a man with whom her mom had an affair). Monroe was her mother's maiden name.
wowww---algunos son dificiles de pronunciar!!!
I've read that Joan Fontaine took her mother's name, since her sister Olivia de Havilland was already an actress with the family name and their mother didn't want Joan to use it as well.
Although no mention is made of it, Bjork's name is Bjork Gumunsdottir (Icelandic patronym--Father's first name is Gumundur).
'Chuck Norris built the hospital he was born in' - Chuck's memes are great.
Carlos is Spanish for Charles, basically he only uses the nickname of his name in English.
Cheers!
Charles isn't really English, its French. The name barely existed in England until the Scottish Stuart dynasty took over in 1603. The Scots were very pro-French and even altered the spelling of the name 'Stewart. to a Gallo-friendly Stuart.
@@mikesaunders4775 Thanks! I didn't know.
So, I guess we can assume that Hollywood types are all phonies.
Why the names are spoken out at the beginning but no more later? Is it a combination of two separate videos?
I wasn't surprised by any of them
I would have kept Francesca Ravelli. It's beautiful.
My second ex-husband was in high school with Carlos Norris. He had the yearbook to prove it.
That robot voice is unbearable
Her real name is Rhobaught.
@@oltedders Lol.
Mickey Mouse's real name:
Disney Rat. (Just kidding.)
You stopped talking and I don't know how to pronounce Mr. Ben Affleck's full name.
Thank you, brava and congratulations.
Geza is a Hungarian given name. Wonder why he got it?
@@accaeffe8032 Eh, who knows...
I wanted to hear the pronunciation... but nothing.
Liv Rungren- Todd Rungren’s daughter. He was Canadian.
Sharen
Not Todd Rundgrens daughter, she is Steven Tyler's daughter, Todd adopted her
Actually Liv is Stephen Tyler's daughter. Todd Rundgren is her step father
Todd Rundgren was never Canadian!
They missed out Doris Day/ Doris von Kappelhof. Should never have changed it lol
Michael Cain's real name is actually My Cocaine.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Kirk Douglas's real name is actually Issur Demsky; Danielovitch is a patronym.
That's right. And, for the record, Natalie Wood's real name is Natalia Nicolaevna (daughter of Nicolai) Zakharenko (sp).
Pedro Pascal is Pedro Balmaceda PASCAL
The only one I didn’t get was Ornella Muti. 🤷🏻♀️😁
Liv Rundgren mildly surprised me but I have heard that rumor Steven wasn't het biological father but it was Rod Lundgren.
A group of people living in a fantasy land, with fantasy names
Some of these real names are better than the fake ones.
Is the narrator on Speed ????
why theese 😁clickbaites. "Watch the whole movie to know someones name". You know we can use fast forward dont you
Benny Assfleck
Post Malone....
Austin Richard Post
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Emily Jean Stone.
You're welcome. Google will tell you all these celebs names.
Most of these are extremely well known
Ornella Muti was twice in the video.
4:15 and 6:19
Marilyn Monroe's biological father was probably Charles Stanley Gifford.
Interesting subject but a lousy job making the video.
Too long pauses, then too fast speaking.
The Weekend is not his real name? That's a shocker, not that I have any idea who he is.
All these people hiding who they really are
De originele namen waren veelal veel mooier. Bijvoorbeeld: Schwartz, Konigsberg, Hartley, enz.
Kinda figured The Weeknd wasn't his real name 😏.
I was going to say Sigourney weaver would be better off changing her name!
She took it from a book, but it was a dude with the moniker
So "Lana Del Rey" is "just" an English gal. Can't have that!
Ornella Muti made a mistake!
Why did so many feel the need to change their foreign sounding names to a short English or American name?
Acceptance by audiences. Issue Danielivitch? Natalie Zacharenko? Maurice Micklewhite?
Snooky isn't there 😑
Most of their birth names are cultural.
There was an actress in the James Bond movies who.was called Pussy Galore.I kid you not.😉
No a character was, not an actress.
She was played by the English actress Honor Blackman.
Back in the days James Bond film female roles had stupid names !
Marilyn Monroe Jackie Kennedy.
I see putler forbidding all antonio banderas movies😉
You had no idea?? Seriously?? What planet do you inhabit.
Jodie Foster has not aged well.
Meg Ryan either.
Much prefer the female real names
The absolutely worst photos of every single one of these actors!
No, it won’t surprise me because I don’t give a fuck what their names are.
AI narration sucks
Настоящая фамилия Антонио Бандераса - Бандера.
А его фанаты - бандеровцы!
It is common among Jews to change their name...
Phony, names, phony lives.
Cary Grant: Archibald Alexander Leach1
Kirk Douglas: Issur Danielovitch
Judy Garland: Frances Ethel Gumm1
Joan Crawford: Lucille Fay LeSueur1
Marilyn Monroe: Norma Jeane Mortenson1
Olivia Colman: Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman
Michael Caine: Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
Whoopi Goldberg: Caryn Elaine Johnson
Rita Hayworth: Margarita Carmen Cansino1
John Wayne: Marion Robert Morrison1
Tina Turner: Anna Mae Bullock
Tony Curtis: Bernard Schwartz1
Joan Fontaine: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
Woody Allen: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Vivien Leigh: Vivian Mary Hartley
Natalie Wood: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
Elton John: Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Sophia Loren: Sofia Villani Scicolone
Meg Ryan: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
Jodie Foster: Alicia Christian Foster
Christopher Walken: Ronald Walken
Ben Affleck: Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt
Billie Eilish: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell
Vin Diesel: Mark Sinclair Vincent
Ornella Muti: Francesca Romana Rivelli
Jean-Claude Van Damme: Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg
The Weeknd: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye2
It’s all so fake.
Chuck Norris is not an alias. When Chuck served in the military, he was asked what Carlos meant in English. He replied "Chuck", and it stuck ever since. Also, why the repetition?
You omitted my favourite. When Boris Karloff asked why he changed his name, he replied "I could never imagine Billy Pratt scaring anyone".
Also, Michael Keaton prefers to be called by his real name and travels under it. He says a lot of limo drivers are surprised they are picking up Michael Keaton instead of Michael Douglas.
Faith Hill didn't age well at all. Ewww!!
John Legend?
In his own fragile mind maybe.
I would love a stage name! That is so cool! What genius thinks of these stage names? Love it!
Try Well's Fargo
Really?!? Some clown calls himself, "The Weekend", and its not his real name?
I never would have guessed.
Almost all of these were good decisions. CARLOS NORRIS???