Like Uma Thurman - Gwyneth Paltrow - very attractive woman with a very strange name.
And ET Bass, I love Ms Bullock too.
There was an actress in the 1970s by the name of “Joy Bang.”
No, she was not a porno actress.
Doris Day’s real name was Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff, and Stepin Fetchit’s was Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry.
I thought this thread was about unusual real names, not unusla stage names!
You left out my favorite…Nova Pilbeame !
Chris W
What about Yahoo Serious?
I doubt a non-porn actress would dare use “Constance Cummings” today.
Which makes me think that years ago, it was probably a lot af fun to sneak things in under the radar, like the “Phil Hays Show.”
Messing IS a word. You’ve never said “The wildebeeste is messing up my room?”
E.T. Bass, “Duff” often means ass, as in “Get off your duff and help me deal with this wildebeeste!”
Stellan Skarsgård is amusing to me.
Mimsy Farmer
Khigh Dhiegh - pronounced to rhyme with “Heidi,” who was Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-0
and also from that show, Zulu, who later changed his name to Zoulou!
Well, since he was born as Thomas Mapother IV, I understand why he changed his name.
But kudos to him for not changing his Swedish name, when going to Hollywood,
Well then Ellis we mustn’t forget:
Kam Fong as Chin Ho
river phoenix
leaf garrett
macaulay culkin
rodney dangerfield
carrot top
rivers cuomo (from the band weezer)
sid vicious
johnny rotten
(both from the band the sex pistols)
fess parker
moon unit zappa
dweezil zappa
ahmet zappa
diva zappa
(the zappa kids)
Ummmm, I don’t think Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and Carrot Top are their real names (says Eve, for, what, the third time? Doesn’t anyone read OPs anymore?)
I thought Peter O’Toole was joke name taken for show-biz, turns out it is real (from what I have read).
I read the OP, Eve.
And River Phoenix wasn’t his real name either. Frighteningly enough, his real first name was River, but his real surname was Bottoms. His brother Joaquin was once billed as Leaf Phoenix (in the movie Parenthood). Which segues nicely into…
Leif (not “Leaf”) Garrett is a real name, but his sister used the stage name Dawn Lyn. “Leif” is pronounced “Layf”.
Ok, a lot of these names are strange, but I think that the strangest I’ve ever heard belongs to someone who was in John Doe
What kind of name is Sprague Grayden for a young woman?
Fairuza Balk
He’s named to honor an ancestor, Robert Treat Paine, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Chevy Chase
Gwyneth Paltrow
Keanu Reaves
Ringo Starr
Kiefer Sutherland
I don’t know anyone IRL nor have I heard of anyone else having these as actual names.
I believe Ringo Starr’s real name is Richard Starkey, and I’m pretty sure I’ve read somewhere that Chevy Chase is a stage name as well.
Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. Not weird names in themselves, but odd to attach to lovely young women like those two.
Viggo Mortensen is a pretty weird name, too.