101 Stage Names from the Entertainment World

Here are 51 entertainers from movies, TV and stage going by stage name first, real name, with notable films or TV shows next. For 50 stage names from music, go to Page One.

ACTORS AND ACTRESSES

1. Alan Alda – Alphonse d’Abruzzo (Hawkeye Pierce “M*A*S*H”, Sen. Arnold Vinick “The West Wing”)
2. Albert Brooks – Albert Einstein (Aaron Altman “Broadcast News”, Bernie Rose “Drive”)
3. Anne Bancroft – Anna Maria Italiano (Anne Sullivan “The Miracle Worker”, Mrs. Robinson “The Graduate”)
4. Ben Kingsley – Krishna Pandit Bhanji (Mahatma Gandhi “Gandhi”, Itzhak Stern “Schindler’s List”)
5. Bo Derek – Mary Cathleen Collins (Jenny Hanley “10”)
6. Buddy Ebsen – Christian Ludolph Ebsen (Jed Clampett “The Beverly Hillbillies”, Barnaby Jones “Barnaby Jones”)
7. Buddy Hackett – Leonard Hacker (Marcellus Washburn “The Music Man”, Tennessee Steinmetz “The Love Bug”)
8. Charlie Sheen – Carlos Estevez (Pvt. Chris Taylor “Platoon”, Charlie Harper “Two and a Half Men”)
9. Chevy Chase – Cornelius Crane Chase (Ty Webb “Caddyshack”, Clark Griswold “National Lampoon’s Vacation”)
10. Ellen Burstyn – Edna Rae Gillooly (Chris MacNeil “The Exorcist”, Jean Harris “The People vs. Jean Harris”)
11. Guy Williams – Armando Joseph Catalano (Zorro/Don Diego “The Adventures of Zorro”, Dr. John Robinson (“Lost in Space”)
12. Fred Astaire – Frederick Austerlitz (Don Hewes “Easter Parade”, Harlee Claiborne “The Towering Inferno”
13. Helen Mirren – Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov (Hedda Hopper “Trumbo”, Elizabeth II “The Queen”)
14. Ice Cube – O’Shea Jackson (Doughboy “Boyz n the Hood”, Calvin Palmer “Barbershop”)
15. Jack Benny – Benjamin Kubelsky (“The Jack Benny Program”)
16. Jackie Chan – Chan Kong-Sang or Chan Kwong-Sang (Ma Hun Keong “Rumble in the Bronx”, Det. Inspector Jonathan Lee “Rush Hour”)
17. James Brolin – Craig Bruderlin (George Lutz “The Amityville Horror”, Dr. Steven Kiley “Marcus Welby, M.D.”)
18. Jamie Foxx – Eric Marlon Bishop (Ray Charles “Ray”, Curtis Taylor, Jr. “Dreamgirls”)
19. Jayne Mansfield – Vera Jayne Palmer (Rita Marlowe, “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?”)
20. Jean-Claude Van Damme – Jean-Claude Van Varenberg (Kurt Sloane “Kickboxer”, Walker “Timecop”)
21. Joan Crawford – Lucille LeSueur (Mildred, “Mildred Pierce”, Blanche Hudson, “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”)
22. Lauren Bacall – Betty Joan Perske (Nora Temple “Key Largo”, Doris Duke “Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke”)
23. Lotte Lenya – Karoline Blamauer (Jenny Diver “The Threepenny Opera”, Rosa Krebb “From Russia with Love”)
24. Kirk Douglas – Issur Danielovitch (Vincent Van Gogh “The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Spartacus “Spartacus”)
25. Malcolm McDowell – Malcolm John Taylor (Alex DeLarge “A Clockwork Orange”, Toilan Soran “Star Trek Generations”)
26. Marilyn Monroe – Norma Jeane Mortenson (Sugar Kane Kowalczyk “Some Like It Hot”; Lorelei Lee “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”)
27. Michael Caine – Maurice Joseph Micklewhite (Elliot “Hannah and Her Sisters”, Dr. Wilbur Larch (“The Cider House Rules”)
28. Portia de Rossi – Amanda Lee Rogers (Nelle Porter “Ally McBeal”)
29. Redd Foxx – John Elroy Sanford (Fred Sanford “Sanford and Son”, Uncle Budd “Cotton Comes to Harlem”)
30. Rip Torn – Elmore Rual Torn (Artie “The Larry Sanders Show”)
31. Rita Hayworth – Margarita Carmen Cansino (Gilda Mundson Farrell “Gilda”, Sadie Thompson “Miss Sadie Thompson”)
32. Rita Moreno – Rosa Dolores Alverio Marcano (Anita “West Side Story”, Sister Peter Marie Reimondo “Oz”)
33. Rodney Dangerfield – Jacob Cohen, changed legally to Jack Roy at age 19 (“Caddyshack”, “Ladybugs”)
34. Rock Hudson – Roy Scherer (Brad Allen “Pillow Talk”, Cdr. James Ferrady “Ice Station Zebra”)
35. Stephanie Powers – Stefania Federkiewicz (Jennifer Hart “Hart to Hart”
36. Ted Knight – Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka (Ted Baxter, “Mary Tyler Moore Show”)
37. Vin Diesel – Mark Sinclair (Dominic Toretto “Fast and Furious”, Groot “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
38. Vincent Gardenia – Vincente Scognamiglio (Mr. Mushnik, “Little Shop of Horrors”, Dutch Schultz (“Mad Dog Coll”)
39. Yves Montand -Yvo Livi (Clement/Dumas “Let’s Make Love”, Jean-Pierre Sarti “Grand Prix”)
40. Whoopi Goldberg – Caryn Johnson (Celie “The Color Purple”, Oda Mae Brown “Ghost”

Extras:

The Hovick Sisters:

• Ellen June Hovick was a child star as “Baby June” and later acted under the stage name “June Havoc.”
• Rose Louise Hovick became famous as burlesque stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee

Real names of the Marx Brothers (from oldest to youngest)

• Chico – Leonard
• Harpo – Adolph (after 1911, Arthur)
• Groucho – Julius
• Gummo – Milton
• Zeppo – Herbert

Real names of the 3 Stooges:

• Shemp Howard – Samuel Horwitz
• Moe Howard – Moses Horwitz
• Curly Howard – Jerome Horwitz
• Larry Fine – Louis Feinberg