suggestion for a stage / actor name?

Be careful; you don't want something forgettable. There is also a benefit in making sure that a Google search doesn't already return results on the name you choose.

Personally, unless your name is really long, I wouldn't change it. You potentially lose one of your best marketing tools, and the impression when people find out that your name at birth was different can be that you're fake.

One of the best variations on a name I've ever encountered was at my school in Sydney; a Laotian friend had the legal name Chiwani Hao Seniyukianikau, and he called himself Chi Hao Sen, which everyone could read easily (though I do like to boast that I was the only Anglo at the school who bothered to learn how to say Seniyukianikau). Maybe you can pick syllables from your real name?

Ashford Di Lorenzo

Discuss this with your agent - he's the one who is going to have to market you - promote you - and he'll know which names are already registered.

Puster Fledgly for a boy Nanymukle Simterda Desquanduspuss for a girl