14 Celebrities Who Either Adopted English Names Or Simplified Their Real Names Before Becoming Famous

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'I put [the new name] on my résumé and photos. Auditions did increase, and I was amazed.'

,"I was sitting there waiting to go on with my audition piece, and someone said, 'Christina Blange?' I said, 'I think that's me.' And I couldn't quite get my cojones back to do a decent audition."on his birth name and his identity:"The first name [Krishna] is Hindu, and the second name [Pandit] is Muslim. Such a name would never exist in the whole of the Indian sub-continent; it's a nonsense name. It's more invented than the name I chose.

"As soon as I changed my name, I got the jobs," he continued."I had one audition as Krishna Bhanji, and they said, 'Beautiful audition, but we don't quite know how to place you in our forthcoming season.' I changed my name, crossed the road, and they said, 'When can you start?'"to England when he was 1 year old. In the early 1980s, when Aasif was 16, his family then moved to Florida.

Despite moving to Tampa as a teenager, Aasif revealed he had no nonwhite friends in the US until he moved to New York.

"I remember getting on a plane a month later to fly to London. My professional name is Aasif Mandvi, but my legal name is Aasif Mandviwala, and they weren't going to let me on the plane with two names. It was the first time this had happened. I had to pull out a copy of a play that I had written, which had my name Aasif Mandvi on it and my picture, and say, 'Look, I am that same person.'"George Takei was born Hosato Takei in California in 1937.

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