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12 celebrities who have changed their names because of mispronunciation, mockery or prejudice
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msn.comThandie Newton will, from now on, be known as Thandiwe after the British actress announced she was reclaiming the Zimbabwean spelling of her name.
Until now, the West World star, 48, has been referred to as Thandie – an anglicised version of the name which omits the “w”.
Her full name is Melanie Thandiwe Newton. The Bafta award-winner, who was born in London to a white British father and Zimbabwean mother, said her name was misspelled in the credits to her first film, Flirting, back in 1991. “Thandie” stuck, lumbering the actress with the wrong name for three decades.
But she’s by no means the only celebrity to have adopted a stage name for reasons of mispronunciation, prejudice or mockery.
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