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Using both first names all the time

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ValerieVomit · 12/06/2024 17:10

I blame Sabrina for starting this trend.

Melissa Joan Hart
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Millie Bobby Brown

It's everywhere now.

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ValerieVomit · 13/06/2024 13:22

missmollygreen · 12/06/2024 17:25

"Its everywhere now"

Two actresses from the 90's and one current..... We are being over run by them!

Examples. There are tons.

Jamie Lee Curtis
Evan Rachel Wood
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Haley Joel Osment
Jenna Louise Coleman

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Spirallingdownwards · 12/06/2024 17:53

Sometimes with actors though it is because there is already an actor registered at Equity or US equivalent with the same first name last name so they have to use their middle name too or change their name entirely.

ChocoChocoLatte · 12/06/2024 17:30

My name is hyphenated, thanks to being born in the 70s (the height of the Walton's) but it's never just been the one name - always both.

sixtyandsomething · 12/06/2024 17:27

there has always been a few people who do this in my life. (I have never heard of any of the people on your list btw)

missmollygreen · 12/06/2024 17:25

ValerieVomit · 12/06/2024 17:10

I blame Sabrina for starting this trend.

Melissa Joan Hart
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Millie Bobby Brown

It's everywhere now.

"Its everywhere now"

Two actresses from the 90's and one current..... We are being over run by them!

Chypre · 12/06/2024 17:12

Somehow still less annoying than fully grown adults going by "Hughie" or "Sunny" in their fifties.