Don’t forget Bernie Schwartz (Tony Curtis), Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns) Albert Einstein (Albert Brooks), Krishna Pandit Bhanji (Ben Kingsley) and lord knows how many others changed their names when they entered show business.
I didn’t forget; but Jewish actors changed their names for different reasons— to create more acceptance from “white” audiences—the same thing Rodriguez did.
My post, by contrast, was about people with English names selecting “better” English names for show biz—no racial component to their decision.