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  2. List of stage names - Wikipedia

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    This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname followed by their birth name. Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Those with a one-word stage name are listed in a separate article. In many cases ...

  3. Stage name - Wikipedia

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    Some individuals who are related to a celebrity take a different last name so they are not perceived to have received undue advantage from their family connection.Actor Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Coppola, chose a new last name to avoid comparisons with his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him his big break in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  4. The World (film) - Wikipedia

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    The World sets the scene in a World park in Beijing, the capital of China, to present China’s desires and ongoing process of becoming a new global center, and the famous buildings from different countries of smaller sizes are to show a united and harmonious world. Jia is a migrant from Fenyang, Shanxi to Beijing, in his interview he said he ...

  5. Star system (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    The main catalyst for change was the public's desire to know the actors' names. Film audiences repeatedly recognized certain performers in movies that they liked. Since they did not know the performers' names they gave them nicknames (such as "the Biograph Girl", Florence Lawrence, who was featured in Biograph movies). Audiences began to want ...

  6. List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames - Wikipedia

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    Many actors and other entertainers elect to add or include their mothers' maiden names in their adopted stage names.The book How to be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television advises aspiring performers to consider changing their names, noting that "if [your birth name] is difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember, it may not be the name you want ...

  7. List of Jewish American entertainers - Wikipedia

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    Alison Brie (born 1982), actress (Community, The LEGO Movie and GLOW) [45] Amanda Bynes (born 1986), film actress and former show host on Nickelodeon (She's the Man) [46] Lizzy Caplan (born 1982), film/TV actress (Mean Girls, Cloverfield) [47] Chanel West Coast (born 1988), TV personality, rapper, singer

  8. List of transgender people - Wikipedia

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    One of the first American trans people to legally change their name. [512] Demoria Elise Williams (a.k.a. Kornbread Jeté) b. 1992 American she/her Drag queen, most known from RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14). [513] Raquel Willis: b. 1990/1 American she/her Writer, activist, Transgender Law Center national organizer [514] Sophie Wilson: b. 1957 ...

  9. Lists of actors - Wikipedia

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    List of pornographic actors who appeared in mainstream films; List of mainstream actors who have appeared in pornographic films; List of pornographic performers by decade; List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; List of actors who have played multiple roles in the same film; WAMPAS Baby Stars