Angelababy – Stage name of Hong Kong actress Angela Yeung Wing
Blue Demon – Famous Mexican luchador and actor
Cosmo Sardo – Usually uncredited yet ubiquitous bit-part actor with 506 IMDB credits (1939-82)
Jet Li – An upgraded evocation of Bruce Lee
László Kovács/Vilmos Zsigmond – Hungarian cinematographers with ultra-cool names (the former is used by Jean-Paul Belmondo as an alias in Godard’s Breathless).
Max Schreck – “Terrible Max” was the star of Nosferatu (1922)
Noble Johnson – Dignified African-American actor (and producer) who rarely played his own race in Hollywood movies. Retired in the 1950s and lived the rest of his life as a white man in CA.
Forest Whitaker - Forest with one R, like the word forest, not the usual double-R spelling when it’s someone’s name. Great name with a lot of character for a great actor with a lot of character.
Her real name is Tara Patrick. And there’s a porn actress known as Tera Patrick whose real name is Linda Shapiro.
And the joke going around twenty years ago was that somewhere out there was an accountant born with the name Carmen Electra who legally changed it to Linda Shapiro so people would take her seriously.
