– Their own isn't exciting or exotic enough.– This can be embarrassing, difficult for people, or a little tongue twister. .- Their own is "too alien" or they love to downplay their ethnicity (5 syllables are usually more catchy than 15 percent, and many of them are able to not match the ethnicity implied by their name). - A member of the local actors' union or a highly prevalent union abroad already has a similar name. - To distance himself from a troubled past or downplay his presence in the set (compare alan smithee and an uncredited role). - To avoid union fines. Operating in a non-union factory or otherwise keeping their regular moniker separate at the expense of content (anime dubbing actors sometimes use fake names when they make hentai so younger fans won't look up their real name and craft anime porn). - To keep your personal life safe.Advertising:
- Their legal name has changed (so when women get married) and consultants continue to use the name known to the widest possible audience or profession, although they now legally have a different name. - Names that were supposed to be temporary, but stuck. - A whole character has been created and these people are trying to play it. As a real operator.- They are eager to define themselves as awesome mc cool, accommodating forms of entertainment (especially common in music, but especially in hip-hop).Performers can go many ways when buying a new name. Someone adds a patronymic, someone adds an initial somewhere, while someone adds the mother's maiden name or the name of a person they respect, and the other simply chooses a name at random. For example, carole lombard chose her own professional last name from a store sign. Once the professional names for many actors were chosen by the studio you were subscribed to, and others were given a list of approved names to choose from.
The choice of one name can turn into strange coincidences.
The mother's maiden name is usually chosen; see nome de maume. Also compare the maiden name debate.
See also the porn names for a particular variant of this.
Authors have their own equivalent of this, a pseudonym, which is treated as a separate trope. See also military name. Can sometimes be a form of meaningful renaming.
Real life examples:
- Terry quinn became terry o'quinn because terrence quinn was already registered. Screen actors guild.- Susan antonia williams stockard combined her surname with her husband's surname at the time to become stockard channing.- Michael andrew fox became michael j. Fox after joining the screen actors guild. In sag-aftra because there was a very busy character actor named michael fox who was already a member. He chose a fake middle initial "j". Rest assured everyone wasn't capable of joking "michael the fox" (or canadian jokes, huh?), Or after the actor michael j. Pollard. - Ben kingsley's birth name was krishna bhanji. He changed it as soon as it was was mispronounced as "christina blange" while listening to the school play.- Josiane balakovic franchised and shortened his croatian name to "balasko".- Pierre richard just took his double name.. His full name is pierre-richard maurice charles léopold defé.- Beatrice rosen shortened her birth name, rosenblatt.- Jacques villeret née jacqui boufroure (last name is algerian).- Heidi hynden walch ("starfire in teen titans" ) bears her 2nd nickname. - Diane keaton's name is diane hall, but she uses her mother's maiden name since "diane hall" is already a sag. The main character from annie hall is actually named after her, since "annie" was who she was as a child. - Tim allen was born timothy allen dick (no relation to andy dick, who was born andrew tomlinson). He dropped his last name especially because he didn't think anyone would believe he didn't make it up as a cheap joke.—Susan alexandra weaver took the name "sigourney" from the character in the great gatsby. Don adams' birth name was donald james yarmy. He was once married to an actress with the stage name adelaide adams.He was don adams, due to the fact that the auditions were often held in alphabetical order.- John wayne's birth name was marion michael morrison, although it turned out that he had the name "duke" (that was the name of the dog) even before before the cure became "john wayne".- Don knotts was an example of a patronymic stem, his careful first name was jesse donald knotts.- As revealed in ray, ray charles was born ray charles robinson but dropped his last name through renowned boxer "sugar" ray robinson (which was itself the stage name of walker smith jr.).- Thomas cruise mapother iv dropped his last name as "tom cruise" sounds much cooler than "tom mapother". (His cousin, william raybert mapother, jr. Didn't do the same once he became an actor)—james scott bumgarner omitted the first syllable of his last name to be james garner.—Nicholas coppola didn't want to use the fame of his uncle, the director, so he took the name of the superhero luke cage to be nicolas cage. Stage names for various occasions. - David tennant and in the meantime david mcdonald, however equity already had someone with that name, so he named himself after neil tennant from the pet shop boys. - Peter davison and in the meantime peter moffett, this name has been changed so as not to run into confusion with the director. Peter moffat (who works with him on doctor who). This does not extend to the rest of his family, due to the fact that his daughter georgia moffett used her gorgeous birth name prior to her marriage to david tennant. , And at the last step added the letter r to the name. According to one report, it was originally a stage name joke - "sylvest mccoy is just my stage name, of course my real name ... Sylvester mccoy" - with which he decided to run after the theater critic was unable to earn the listed and thought that sylvester mccoy and by the way his real name. - John pertwee's real name was jean roland devon de pertuis (he was of french and austrian origin). His family members use pertwi as a phonetic spelling. He was also called anglicized john before his last name was misspelled on the poster.—This extends to companions as well. Lalla ward's real name is sarah, lalla was a nickname in her early years. - Billie piper's real name is layane piper, but she chose the stage name "billy" for her musical career. When she switched to acting, she changed her name back to billie piper. - The original master, roger delgado, was born roger caesar marius bernard de delgado torres castillo roberto. He actually used "delgado" for some acting work.- Louis feinberg, moses harry horwitz and jerome lester horwitz - a/k/a larry fine and moe and curly howard.- Samuel horwitz = shemp howard (although this happened due to a speech defect from his mother of lithuanian origin, where "sam" became "shemp"). - Joseph wardell = (curley-) jo derita. - Her sister lana wood, née svetlana lisa gurdin.- Bruce lee, née lee jun-fan. - Jackie chan is actually chan kong san. As a teenager, he acquired the nickname jackie while working in australia, and among him was an older friend called jack.- Jet li and meanwhile li lianjie.- Have you heard about saedo maeda at some point? This is sonny tiba's real name.—Same as noriyuki "pat" morita.—Another story says that the partner changed his name to "mr. . Brother, vietnam veteran, "boy". According to this email or social media, he changed his proud name so that gamblers would be forced to call him "mr."
- Anime example: tenchi muyo original north american dub! All ryo-ohki were invented outside of union agreements, with each cast using a fictitious name, except for jay hopper, who used his real name when playing katsuhito and nobuyuki masaki. They are very specific to the show, and even in jokes, such as debi derryberry's use of the name "marie cabbit" in her business, voicing the cat/rabbit hybrid creature ryo-ohki. It's a fairly common practice in voice acting. All metal gear solid actors performed under their standard pseudonyms due to the uncertainty of the situation with the union. Of the lineup itself, only doug stone and scott dolph used their real names from the start, while david hayter was able to achieve normal clarity thanks to the union between the printing of the bet manual and the production of the discs. . Later games have dropped pseudonyms entirely. - The stage name chosen by david hayter for the metal gear solid dub, "sean barker", comes from the character he played in the live-action movie guyver. The name of a character he played in the 1970s mormon musical sabbath warrior.He also used this name for his robotech activities, as well as other anime dubs of the 80s.
- Steve bloom (who went by the names daniel andrews, , richard cardona, steven jay, david lucas and andrew watto)- peter doyle (jim taggart, peter day, peter reilly, bill tracker, thad lightner, laddie mcfarren and phil wright)- melissa fan (tina dixon, melissa charles and heather lee joelson).- Dorothy elias-fan (dorothy elias, dorothy fahn, midge mays, dorothy melendez, dorothy melendrez, jackie morris, annie pastrano and joanna louis).- Stephanie sheh (jennifer sekiguchi, tiffany hsieh , lulu chung) , and laura chew)- both dan green and wayne grayson appear in slayers next (among other anime) as james snyder and vinnie penna respectively. In dan green's situation, his real name is actually james "j" snyder, but he prefers to use the more familiar green stage name in the dub on a daily basis. - Barbara goodson (betty gustafson, barbara larsen, bertha green, and shirley roberts). . - It's a common practice for sag members where over 90% of the voice acting isn't really sag... But they still want a paycheck.
- The ghost of the school librarian in ghosthunter is voiced a real porn star under a pseudonym. - In the puni puni poemi dub, any of the aasu sisters (mutsumi) were voiced by an unknown voice actress under the pseudonym "yu howl", a pun on u- howl or related to the character's huge breasts.- Erica schroeder was usually mentioned as "bella hudson" (along with her work in other 4kids dubs), although her subsequent roles were credited under her birth name.- Roxane beck was originally "annie pondel"/"annie pandel" for the first two seasons .- Jay goede voiced mewtwo in a good movie, however, he is listed as philip bartlett in the credits.- Eliza schneider was referred to as "the blue lady" in various episodes of the 4th season, and this was the pseudonym that she used as a performance artist. - April stewart originally used the name "gracie lazar" to assist on the show due to the fact that it was not a union project (an earlier union and wage dispute led to eliza schneider's departure). She dropped her alias around season 9.- Jessica makinson was sometimes referred to by her real name, though she was referred to as "jesse thomas"/"jesse jo thomas" in later seasons.- Eliza gabrielli died. Alias "elyse gabriel" due to her occasional guest roles on the show. - Actress with pseudonym "laylo incongnegro". Credited with the role of nicole in the episode "cartman finds love". It is not known who, by the way, voiced, although the use of a pseudonym could be due to the fact that the show does not remain a union project, or done as a joke. - Colleen o'shaughnessy was listed underground. Real name for her job in the stick of truth video game, but for a job opening in season 18, she was listed under the alias "millie oliver". She is also known as colleen willard, her married name. Shitter castañon is known as gabi viller or gabriela villert (li meiling and motoko kusanagi). Her mother, lisa villert, was born as elisabeth margot schreiter castagnon. This led most viewers to fantasize that both names refer to two unrelated voice actors with the same last name. - The late maria hiromi hayakawa salas (draculaura) was only hiromi hayakawa, which is why many fans have repeatedly said that testing is a native japanese. Actress (she turned out to be japanese-mexican, born in japan but raised in mexico). Later, she exclusively used the name hiromi, especially when working outside the voice acting industry. Name.- The real name of the late guillermo romano (who voiced batman, inspector gadget, ryart, etc..) Was carlos stevenson, who also used the same name in several other works, which at first caused some confusion among his fans, when they were trying to figure out his previous early roles.- Azul valades (tatsumaki and sabrina spellman): her real name is azucena valades. She has this name because "azul" (blue) is her favorite color.- Guilherme briggs often claims he was born guilherme brito, but this seems to be a case of trolling- creator.- Helena samara was born as leah calmet.- Ida gomes was born in poland as ida saffron.- Carol kapfer was born as carolina piño ferreira.- Carmen sheila was born as sheila da silva and souza.- Manolo rey was born under the name manoel velo ameijeiras.- Several contracts: lacarve (luis alexandre de carvalho), aline ghioli (guimaraes oliveira), luis antónio lobue (lopez bueno), daice richffer (ribeiro coutinho ferreira) ...- Mauricio berger is actually bergquist, he changed during his first personal radio appearance because his boss thought help was hard to imagine.- Leticia quinto gave her daughter brune a different surname, rodriguez.And when bruna followed the family business (mother, stepfather, brother and half sister of letizia are also understudies!), She decided not to waste connections a long time ago, and she is credited with the name bruna quinto.- Telmo de avelar was born as telmo perle munch.- Ronaldo artinik makes sdrawkcab data for the surname cintra (but usually spelled with a serious "i").- Fernanda fernandez had the first surname (her sister used the second, flavia saddy), until she found another actress with such a repetitive name, so she took her grandmother's last name and became fernanda baronne. - Vivian frenchel is known as wii zedek - the former partly because she was tired of being called the wrong name, and the latter partly in hebrew to be fair.- Roger karel was born as roger bancharel. – Marie-martine was born as marie vergracht.– Casey chase was born as casey teitscheid.– Philippe valmont was previously known as jean-philippe bouton in his career. - Nana mizuki's real name is nana kondo, while her younger sister mika kondo goes by the name mi ka. - Yukana: her real name is yukana nogami. He is mentioned as such in earlier works from the 90s- nobutoshi kanna: nobutoshi hayashi's real name, and how even in the previous case, he is mentioned in general in more older works.- Daisuke kishio is the first of the circumstances when his scene his real name is: his real name is written in hiragana, but not in kanji like in the real world.— Hisako kanemoto: yuri aikawa's real name, and oddly enough, she uses her real name in koumajou densetsu. Like flandre scarlet, note, though only in the original japanese. In the english translation, she is listed under her stage name instead. Despite not being an x-game, the remaining actors also use both their real and stage names. - Nozomi sasaki, who voices patricia martin, has an interesting twist: everything, but her first stage is always written in hiragana, and her real name is written in kanji. This was left to avoid confusion because her real name in kanji has the same characters as her fellow veteran voice actor nozomu sasaki.—Banjo ginga: real name is takashi tanaka.
<>- almost every rapper in the life of rap. More often than not, it is derived from gangs, and often the rapper's stage name is also their gang name. Much, even easier, to list all the dislikes: kanye west, lauryn hill, missy elliott, chris brown, wyclef jean, theophilus london, keith murray, vince staples, joe budden, mike jones, kevin mccall, bryson tiller and obie trice. (With actually a song about him not having a stage name). Talib kweli and kendrick lamar use their first names and patronymics, but this is perceived more as a mononym than proper disgust (kendrick's real surname, which is embarrassingly, is duckworth). Here is a complete list of rappers' real passport details and an explanation of their gang names.- Also quite common worldwide in edm and related genres, although perhaps not as common as in rap: - avicii: tim bergling - darude: toni-ville henrik wirtanen- robert miles: roberto cum- fatboy slim: born quentin leo cook, later changed to norman quentin cooke- calvin harris: adam richard wiles- swedish house mafia: axwell and by the way axel christopher hedfors and steve angello is actually steven patrik josefsson fragoyannis. Prevented with sebastian ingrosso using his real name.- Among the original cast, chaim witz became eugene klein, then finally gene simmons, stanley harvey eisen = paul stanley, george peter john criscuola = peter criss and linoleum daniel https://vrhunter.net/tags/jazmin%20luv/ "ace" frehley.—Replacements include paul caravello = eric carr, vinnie cusano = vinnie vincent, mark norton = mark st. John. , Richard starkey. The cowboy nickname comes partly from his ringed fingers.- James paul mccartney goes by his middle name because his father was also named james. He is also credited with a number of unusual names - some notable ones include fireman, apollo s. Wermouth, percy trillington's "flashlights" (there was an album of the same name and paul ramone, whose name was taken by all the ramones (see next example). - John lennon liked the pseudonym "dr. Winston o'boogie" (winston was his middle name, after winston churchill).- George harrison played several guest guitar spots, hidden under the pseudonym l'angelo misterioso (the mysterious angel). - Mike mcgear of the liverpool band the scaffold and meanwhile was peter michael mccartney, paul's brother, he came up with an unusual surname ("gear" was a synonym for "fab" at the time) in order to avoid accusations of theft his brother's fame (and various unwanted comparisons).- Each member of the mötley crüe; the lead singer is shortened from vincent neil wharton to vince neil, the drummer is shortened from thomas lee bass to tommy lee, the guitarist's real name is robert alan deal, however he uses the cooler stage name mick mars, and bassist frank carlton serafino ferrana jr. Has legally changed his name on nikki sixx, at which point he was eighteen, before mötley crüe even formed. Is each of the classic poison composition. Vocalist bret michael sychak shortened his multifaceted name to bret michaels, bassist robert kuykendall shortened his name to bobby doll, and drummer richard rome changed your name to ricky rockett.