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| Name change: 'Johnny O'Keefe' doesn't have the star quality of 'Jonathan Rhys Meyers' Source : Independent.ie By Aoife Anderson Tuesday November 13 2007  IRISH actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has revealed he changed his surname because he thinks his real name, Johnny O'Keefe, is boring.The 30-year-old Cork star decided to adopt the name Rhys-Meyers at the very beginning of his acting career to make himself sound more interesting. The Tudors heart-throb said the two different names enabled him to separate his work life from his personal life. "Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was the name I wanted the world to know me by, and not my birth name," he said. "I wanted to create almost this different person, which I suppose doesn't really exist. "People think it's all premieres and parties and glamour. And I suppose Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has some of that. "But Johnny actually sits at home, plays his guitar badly and hangs out with his friends. "It's good that there's a line for me to draw," he added. ... The actor also revealed that, if he wasn't lighting up the big screen, he would have like to have become good enough at playing the guitar to become a musician. "I play music -- I just never wanted to do it as a job," he said. "My father is a musician, my brothers are musicians. "But if I had pushed it, I am sure I could have learned to be a bit better, to promote it," he added. |
 |  JRM with his Best Actor award at the 5th annual IFTA's (2008) & below his acceptance speech |
 |  Season 3 Launch Party - March 30th, 2009 with his new "wife" Annabelle Wallis and at the left with Tamzin Merchant his "next wife" |
 At the Tudors Season 2 Premier with Natalie Dormer who is telling him she likes his skinny tie at the Season 2 Launch Party | |
 JRM with his screen idol Peter O'Toole at the Season 2 premier  | |
 with John Travolta in "From Paris with Love" |  |
 January 2009 - Press tour for Season 3 |  A scene from the movie "Shelter" with JuilanneJulianne Moore |
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 |  Two irish hunks! with Cillian Murphy at the Dublin film festival |
  |  with another irish hunk & good friend, Colin Farrell in "Alexander"  |
 with Co-star Keri Russell from August Rush |  "August Rush" |
 Posing with Irish director Kirsten Sheridan before the screening of "August Rush" at the second annual film festival, 20 October 2007 in Rome. "August Rush" is presented in Alice category at the RomeFilmFest. |  Promoting "Matchpoint" |
 with Scarlett JohannsonJohansson |  Scarlett & JRM on the set of "Matchpoint" (duelling lips) |
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 even looks good blonde |  |
 with co-star (& ex girlfriend) Asia ArgenteArgento on "B. Monkey" 1999 |  "Ride with the wind" (in your hair?) |
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 Promo for B. Monkey -1996 |
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