It is greater than frequent for celebrities to take stage names, and simply this week Millie Bobby Brown revealed that she altered her actual title for her skilled profession. So listed here are simply 13 celebrities, together with Millie, whose actual title simply may fascinate you:
Millie Bobby Brown’s center title is not Bobby. It is Bonnie. “I’ve by no means advised anybody that. You heard it right here first,” she advised BuzzFeed UK earlier this month. She mentioned she modified her center title for “shits and giggles.”
Emma Stone’s actual title is Emily Stone. One other actor was already registered below the title with the Display Actors Guild, so the Sorts of Kindness star selected the primary title “Emma” and stored her final title. In 2024, she advised the Hollywood Reporter that she “freaked out” just a few years in the past about her stage title and realized she could not “do it anymore.” When requested by the publication if her followers might name her Emily, she mentioned, “That will be so good. I wish to be Emily.”
Jamie Foxx’s actual title is Eric Marlon Bishop. “I went on as Eric Bishop [and] killed. Standing ovation,” Jamie mentioned on Angie Martinez’s radio present final 12 months of his early days doing stand-up in Los Angeles. “I come again the following weekend. You signal your title. I do not get on. Subsequent week, I do not get on once more. Come to search out out, the comics are operating the record. So I might by no means get on.” He then tried out a distinct comedy corridor, the place he had extra success by writing down “unisex names” as a result of the variety of male comics far outweighed the variety of feminine comics. One of many names he tried out was Jamie Foxx. It obtained him on stage, and he caught with it.
Michelle Yeoh’s Chinese language title is Yeoh Choo-Kheng. Nevertheless, she advised USA Immediately that she adopted the extra Anglican title “Michelle” initially of her profession when a producer questioned her title. “I solely adopted the title Michelle once I obtained into the movie trade, as a result of my producer mentioned on the time, ‘Nobody goes to have the ability to say your title,'” she advised USA Immediately in 2021. “What do you imply they can not say it? It is Yeoh as in Yo, that is straightforward proper? Choo as in ‘choo choo practice’ and Kheng as in ‘king.’ Why cannot you place these three phrases collectively?”
Michael Keaton’s actual title is Michael Douglas. As you possibly can think about, he could not use his actual title as his stage title, contemplating there’s already a significant film star named Michael Douglas. He advised Folks final 12 months that he thinks he discovered the title “Keaton” whereas trying by way of a cellphone e-book. “I have to’ve gone, ‘I do not know, let me consider one thing right here.’ And I went, ‘Oh, that sounds cheap,'” he mentioned.
Whoopi Goldberg’s actual title is Caryn Johnson. However Whoopi Goldberg was the primary stage title she tried. “Here is the factor. While you’re acting on stage, you by no means actually have time to enter the toilet and shut the door. So should you get a little bit gassy, you have to let it go. So folks used to say to me, You’re like a whoopee cushion. And that is the place the title got here from,” she advised the New York Occasions in 2006. She mentioned on Late Night time final 12 months that her mother satisfied her to evolve the title past Whoopee Cushion to Whoopi Goldberg. Briefly, between the 2 names, she glided by a French pronunciation of Whoopee Cushion.
As a child, Will Ferrell was “embarrassed” by his first title: John. “This can be a minor factor when it comes to — it is not likely even trauma — however I keep in mind feeling so embarrassed as a result of my actual title is John. John William Ferrell. So first day of faculty, I might be John,” he mentioned on Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s MeSsy podcast final 12 months. As for why he glided by his center? Effectively, that is as a result of it is the title his dad and mom known as him. “It wasn’t my alternative,” he mentioned. “My dad and mom named me John. They known as me Will. I grew up as Will.”
Children who grew up on Disney Channel may already know the lore of Miley Cryus’s actual title: Future Hope Cyrus. Rising up, her household known as her “Smiley” since she radiated happiness. This was ultimately shortened to Miley. “It’s pretty. It’s a lot,” Miley mentioned of her beginning title on David Letterman’s Netflix discuss present final 12 months, per TODAY. “However I do suppose that from the start it set an intention, which we do not at all times have.”
“For many who could also be curious, the title I used to be born with is 김대현, pronounced ‘Geem Day Hyun.’ (If you already know the automobile firm Hyundai simply change the syllables. 🙂 Like many different Asian immigrants, when my household got here to the US my dad and mom added a western title to make it simpler for non-Koreans to pronounce. The title they selected was ‘Daniel’ as a result of they favored the which means and the truth that the ‘D’ sound in Daniel was the identical as my first title in Korean, Dae Hyun. Each my names signify the most effective of who I’m as a Korean and an American. I could not be prouder to be each. 🇺🇸🇰🇷,” he wrote on Instagram in 2022.
Tina Fey’s actual title is Elizabeth Stamatina Fey. Based on Vogue, Tina comes from her center title. Come to consider it, what is the title of Tina’s 30 Rock character? Liz Lemon. Liz, quick for Elizabeth. You see the connection…
“When folks name me Robyn, my head simply flies round as a result of I really feel like that particular person is aware of me,” Rihanna advised Glamour in 2013. The singer and sweetness mogul’s full title is Robyn Rihanna Fenty. “However Rihanna, that tends to be folks’s personal [creation]. Robyn is who I’m. Rihanna — that is an concept of who I’m.”
Reese is not the actor’s first title. Reese’s actual title is Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon. She revealed this in an interview on Ellen in 2004.
