I've always been intrigued by the professional names used by some actors and actresses - I wonder how well John Wayne would have fared had he kept to his given name of Marian Morrison (oddly enough, I once had a member of staff - female - called Marian Morrison). Or Doris Day as Doris Kapelhoff (may have misspelt that). Dino Paul Crocetti aka Dean Martin.
I'm also intrigued that for such a staunch nationalist, Sean Connery can’t spell his own name – or if he can, he lets it be misspelt all the time. In Scots Gaelic SEAN translates as ‘old’. The name should be spelt Seŕn.
Not a lot of people know that!
Mike