My dear, dear friends around the world... LA VOIX, Lilith-Auryn Athena Fairchild and so many more... 57 well known stars that cannot have a personal profile or couldn’t have had one with Facebook! • Marilyn Monroe Real Name: Norma Jean Mortensen • Elvira Real Name: Cassandra Peterson • Cher Real Name: Born Cherilyn Sarkisian & later when mother remarried Cheryl La Piere • Anne Rice Real Name: Howard Allen O’Brien • Carmen Electra Real Name: Tara Patrick • Criss Angel Real Name: Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos • Kim Cattrall Real Name: Clare Woodgate • Katy Perry Real Name: Katy Hudson Changed her name to avoid confusion with Kate Hudson. • Demi Moore Real Name: Demetria Guynes • Albert Brooks Real Name: Albert Einstein Name change is obvious. • Meg Ryan Real Name: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra • Natalie Wood Real Name: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko Russian parents, changed it to blend into Hollywood • Greta Garbo Real Name: Swedish born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson • Woody Allen Real Name: Allen Konigsberg • Joaquin Phoenix Real Name: Joaquin Rafael Bottom • Chevy Chase Real Name: Cornelius Crane Chase Got name from English song ‘The Ballad of Chevy Chase’ • Tina Fey Real Name: Elizabeth Stamatina Fey • Ben Kingsley Real Name: Krishna Pandit Bhanji • Alan Alda Real Name: Alphonso d’Abruzzo First two letters of his first name and last name, AL + DA • Portia De Rossi Real Name: Amanda Lee Rogers • Diane Keaton Real name: Diane Hall • Michael Caine Real Name: Maurice Micklewhite Named himself after Bogart’s character in ‘The Caine Mutiny’ • Larry King Real Name: Lawrence Harvey Zeigler Austrian parents from Belarus, Orthodox Jews living in New York in 1930s • George Michael Real Name: Georgios Panayiotou • Whoopi Goldberg Real Name: Caryn Johnson Myth says she concocted her last name from ability to fart a lot. Mother advised her to take a Jewish last name, Thinking it would help her career • Hulk Hogan Real Name: Terry Jean Bollette • Bea Arthur (Beatrice Arthur) Real Name: Bernice Frankel • Rue McClanahan Real Name: Born with the first name ‘Eddi-Rue’ • Rock Hudson Real Name: Leroy Harold Scherer, Jr. • Elvis Costello Real Name: Declan Patrick McManus • Joan Crawford Real Name: Lucille Le Sueur • Bette Davis Real Name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis • Kirk Douglas Real Name: Issur Danielovitch Demsky • Audrey Hepburn Real Name: Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston • Judy Garland Real Name: Frances Gumm • Truman Capote Real Name: Truman Streckfus Persons • Julia Child Real Name: Julia Carolyn McWilliams ‘Child’ was married name • Dido Real Name: Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong • Martin Sheen Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez • Courtney Love Real Name: Love Michelle Harrison • Fred Astaire Real Name: Frederick Austerlitz • Ginger Rogers Real Name: Virginia Katherine McMath • Bruno Mars Real Name: Peter Gene Hernandez Filipino, Spanish, Puerto Rican, Hungarian, Ukranian, is Jewish and was born in Hawaii • Gene Simmons Real Name: Chaim Witz Half the original members of KISS were Jewish • Helen Mirren Real Name: Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov • Shania Twain Real Name: Eileen Regina Edwards Twain is stepfather’s last name • Julianne Moore Real Name: Julie Smith Julianne is a portmanteau of first name and middle name, Anne • Stevie Wonder Real Name: Steveland Judkins • Abigail Van Buren (aka Dear Abby) Real Name: Pauline Ester Friedman • Dezi Arnas Real Name: Desiderio Albert Arnaz y De Acha III • Cary Grant Real Name: Archibald Alexander Leach • Dusty Springfield Real Name: Mary Isobel Catherine O’Brien • Michael Keaton Real Name: Michael Douglas • Spike Lee Real Name: Shelton Lee • Natalie Portman Real Name: Natalie Herschlag Dual Israeli and American citizen, ‘Portman’ is grandmother’s maiden name • Harry Houdini Real name: Ehrich Weiss • David Copperfield Real Name: David Kotkin
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:11:53 +0000
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