While changing their names before starting their career is common for celebrities, some of them took a big risk of losing their brand by switching their monikers at the height of their career.
- June 5, 2022
AceShowbiz - It's all because of a typo. Born Melanie Thandiwe Newton, Thandiwe Newton actually dropped her first name once she began acting. However, a typo in the credits of her first movie, 1991's "Flirting", made the "Westworld" actress change her moniker to Thandie Newton and that's how she was known all over the world until she decided to switch back to her actual name Thandiwe.
"That's my name. It's always been my name. I'm taking back what's mine," she once told British Vogue. Born to a British father and Zimbabwean mother, the actress also claimed that she felt encouraged to return to her true name, noting, "The thing I'm most grateful for in our business right now is being in the company of others who truly see me. And to not be complicit in the objectification of black people as 'others', which is what happens when you're the only one."
