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[ Screen Actors Guild - Actors Names ]
Search for Screen Actors Guild https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/new/search?&search%5Bkeywords%5D=Screen+Actors+Guild&... We found 7,617 similar conversations Do not want to look at all these - - - Question : There are many (?) groups of actors with the same name Is this an old rule not inforced now?? Does SAG look at IMDb ? - - - Michael Fox (I) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289147/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289147/reference http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289147/bio Was the reason Michael J. Fox inserted the 'J' into his name, as the Screen Actors Guild only allows one person of each name to be registered. - - - http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Michael%20Fox&s=nm&exact=true Displaying 53 results for "Michael Fox" (No all "Michael Fox") - - - Screen Actors Guild (SAG) [us] http://www.imdb.com/company/co0015930/ http://www.sagaftra.org/ https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-mourns-passing-new-york-local-president-mike-hodge http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Mike%20Hodge&s=nm&exact=true Displaying 11 results for "Mike Hodge" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild Unique stage names Main article: Stage name Like other guilds and associations that represent actors, SAG rules stipulated that no two members may have identical working names. Some actors have added their middle initial. Notable examples include Michael Keaton, Michael J. Fox and Emma Stone, whose birth names "Michael Douglas", "Michael Fox" and "Emily Stone," respectively, were already in use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_name#Guild_and_association_rules
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https://www.sagaftra.org/can-i-reserve-a-professional-name-is-name-i-want-already-taken "... SAG-AFTRA makes every effort to avoid enrolling members with the same name or with very similar names. ..." So, yeah, because another actor named Michael Fox was already in SAG, Michael J. Fox added the initial (choosing J instead of his real middle initial A). Back in 1994, an Entertainment Weekly article noted that SAG sometimes allowed reuse of the name of an actor who had died at least 3 years before (though such reuse was generally discouraged even then). Other exceptions sometimes occur — for example, as Wikipedia notes, a 2003 TV Guide article quoted a well-known actress whose name is the same as another (Vanessa Williams) explaining that a SAG arbitration decision allowed both actresses to continue using the same name (with no need for one to use an initial to distinguish them).
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