Hypothesis: diversity of names of Hollywood actors is higher than the diversity of names of characters they play.
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Oh, and for your data-set: same phenomenon in Bollywood. Lots of early actors (30s - 50s) were muslims who took on hindu names.
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"Dilip Kumar" from the 50s was really Yusuf Khan. Sometime in the 80s, it became okay for muslims to act under own names.
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