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Michael Keaton Is Ditching His Stage Name for His Birth Name
Michael Keaton—or rather, Michael Keaton Douglas—is looking guardant to a homecoming.
The Spider-Man actor precocious made headlines erstwhile helium shared helium wanted to switch from his signifier surname, that of Keaton, backmost to his archetypal past sanction of Douglas. (Yes, similar that Michael Douglas). Now, the 73-year-old is shedding airy connected the decision.
“I similar my name,” helium told E! News at the premiere of his caller movie Goodrich, acceptable for merchandise Oct. 18. He added of his existent moniker, “Every clip I accidental my name, I benignant of go, ‘Fraud. It’s not your name.’”
He past joked of chap movie prima Diane Keaton (no relation), “Poor Diane. The mediocre pistillate has astir apt had to enactment up with truthful galore anserine questions: ‘You’re his sister?’” (For much with Michael and his Goodrich costar Mila Kunis, tune into E! News tonight, Oct. 9 astatine 11 p.m.)
The Birdman actor noted he’d wanted to usage “Michael Keaton Douglas” for his recognition connected his 2023 movie Knox Goes Away, which helium directed and starred in, but that helium forgot to enactment the alteration successful clip for the movie’s premiere.
“It mightiness not hap legally,” Michael added. “Someone mightiness situation me.”
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That someone, however, mightiness not beryllium Hollywood’s different Michael Douglas. As the Batman actor noted, helium and the Basic Instinct star erstwhile addressed their matching monikers.
“Long clip ago, helium and I laughed astir it,” Michael revealed. “Because 1 clip helium got thing I deliberation from immoderate infirmary oregon thing and helium went, ‘What?!’ And they got the things messed up.”
But conscionable however did the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star onshore connected his prime of Keaton?
“I was looking through—I can’t retrieve if it was a telephone book,” helium told People successful an interview published Sept. 4. “I must’ve gone, ‘I don’t know, fto maine deliberation of thing here.’ And I went, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.’”
And he’s not the lone A-lister who’s opted to alteration their moniker erstwhile entering Hollywood owed to different histrion bearing the aforesaid name.
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In information Emma Stone—whose existent sanction is Emily Stone—recently expressed her tendency to revert back to her archetypal name.
"That would beryllium truthful nice," she told The Hollywood Reporter of becoming Emily each the clip successful an interview published successful April. "I would similar to beryllium Emily."
In fact, galore of her nonrecreational colleagues already person made the switch.
"When I get to cognize them, radical that I enactment with do," she explained. "I freaked retired a mates of years ago. For immoderate reason, I was like, 'I can't bash it anymore. Just telephone maine Emily.'"
Read connected for much celebrities who person changed their names for Hollywood.
--Reporting by Nikki Novak
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Shaboozey
The outlaw state star's existent sanction is Collins Obinna Chibueze. He follow Shaboozey arsenic his nickname and aboriginal utilized it arsenic his authoritative alias arsenic a euphony creator aft his Virginia precocious schoolhouse misspelled his surname that way.
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Austin Richard Post
Congratulations to Post Malone, who incorporated his surname into his signifier name. However, the rapper does similar his adjacent friends to telephone him by his existent name.
During the 2024 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift referred to him arsenic "Austin" erstwhile they won the Best Collaboration grant for their duet "Fortnight."
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
Though the vocalist initially released a Christian medium nether her commencement sanction successful 2001, she felt the signifier sanction Katy Perry—inspired by her mom's maiden name—might conscionable popular fans much successful awe, awe, awe.
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Belcalis Almanzar
Cardi B took connected the name Bacardi aft household and friends started calling her sister Hennessy. Later connected she shortened the sanction to thing that suited her quite a spot more.
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Rachel Meghan Markle
Before she became the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was concisely known arsenic Rachel.
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Eilleen Regina Edwards
Shania Twain shared the root communicative of her signifier sanction during an quality connected Apple Music's Home Now Radio: "In short, I was born, Eilleen Regina Edwards, and past I was adopted and I became Eilleen Regina Twain. Then I became a nonrecreational vocalist and I needed a signifier sanction that sounded a small little similar my grandmother's name, due to the fact that I'm named aft my grandmother, some my grandmothers, Eilleen and Regina. I think, successful my mind, I was conscionable not truly wanting to beryllium called my grandmother's sanction onstage, truthful I decided to alteration it to Shania Twain. I met idiosyncratic with the sanction Shania, thought it was beautiful, and Shania Twain was born."
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Kayleigh Rose Amstutz
The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer’s onstage persona—Chappell Roan—has ever been a “drag project,” allowing her to acceptable boundaries and abstracted her idiosyncratic beingness from the industry.
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Jelena Noura Hadid
Oddly enough, Gigi Hadid got her signifier sanction successful schoolhouse erstwhile the teacher would confuse her and a miss named Helena. Since her ma called her "gigi" arsenic a word of endearment astatine home, she told the teacher to conscionable telephone her Gigi and it simply stuck.
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Mark Vincent
If you're looking for an explosive action-star name, however astir Vin Diesel instead?
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Destiny Hope Cyrus
Miley Cyrus' agleam grin is what inspired her puerility nickname, Smiley. Eventually the sanction was shortened to Miley and it stuck.
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Peter Gene Hernandez
Apparently the vocalist looked much similar a Bruno than a Peter, truthful 1 time his dada started calling him Bruno. Ever since, helium has been known arsenic Bruno Mars.
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Stefani Germanotta
Before the nutrient dresses and chart-topping music, Lady Gaga was conscionable an mundane miss from New York.
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Daniel Sudeikis
Jason Sudeikis confirmed connected Today that he was named Daniel aft his father, but pursuing immoderate confusion, his ma started utilizing his mediate sanction Jason to debar confusion.
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Emily Stone
Emma Stone ended adopting this signifier sanction aft uncovering retired that the Screen Actors Guild already had a subordinate registered nether her birthname.
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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon
Turns retired Reese isn't even Reese Witherspoon's mediate name. The histrion chose the moniker successful grant of her mother, whose maiden sanction is Reese.
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Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Every creator has an change ego, and Lana Del Rey conscionable happens to beryllium the persona of prime for the singer.
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Christopher Edwin Breaux
In 2014, Frank Ocean legally changed his sanction because, wherefore not?
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Elizabeth Stamatina Fey
A small known information about 30 Rock's Tina Fey is that she is really named Elizabeth. The comedian made a not truthful subtle tribute to her commencement sanction by naming her quality Liz Lemon.
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Calvin Broadus
This pioneer of West Coast rap would aboriginal spell connected to beryllium known arsenic Snoop Dogg.
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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor
Turns retired the "Royals" vocalist is truly into learning astir the aristocracy, hence the crushed wherefore she chose the name Lorde, but with a feminine 'e.'
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Enrique Morales
Before helium started shaking his bonbon for the masses, euphony superstar Ricky Martin went by this mundane name.
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Amethyst Kelly
It's hard to judge that Iggy Azalea was calved Amethyst Kelly!
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Adam Richard Wiles
Fans were confused when Taylor Swift thanked then-boyfriend Adam successful an acceptance speech, which pb radical to the find that Calvin Harris is simply a signifier name. The DJ told Shortlist magazine helium chose the sanction due to the fact that his archetypal azygous was much soulful and wanted thing a spot much "racially ambiguous."
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Jennifer Anastassakis
Before she became a household name, this was what erstwhile Friend Jennifer Aniston answered to.
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Alicia Augello Cook
Alicia Keys didn't ever person specified a philharmonic name.
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Thomas Mapother IV
Before helium became arguably the biggest movie prima successful the world, Tom Cruise went by this name.
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Natalie Hershlag
Back erstwhile she was calved successful 1980, this was however the aboriginal bigtime histrion Natalie Portman greeted the world.
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Amanda Lee Rogers
Before she became a big-time TV prima and joined Ellen DeGeneres, this was the sanction Portia de Rossi answered to.
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Reginald Dwight
Guess euphony superstar Elton John didn't deliberation his archetypal sanction would beryllium a deed with audiences.
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Nicole Camilla Escovedo
Check The Simple Life alum Nicole Richie's commencement certificate and this is the sanction you'll see.
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