18 Actors You Didn't Know Actually Use Their Middle Names

10. Ryan Phillippe

Ryan Phillippe
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Rating: Matthew Ryan Phillippe

Not content with changing his given name for acting gigs, the Cruel Intentions star and former husband of Reese Witherspoon also changed the spelling of his German surname from "Phillippi" - a sign of his German heritage - to Phillippe.

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