That’s partly because they don’t need every aunt and uncle back home happening across their work when they type their name into, plus the old-fashioned reason why the likes of Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch), Elton John (Reginald Dwight) and Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) changed theirs… that’s showbiz.īrent Corrigan’s real name is Sean Paul Lockhart (which if you ask us is way more showbiz than “Brent Corrigan” anyway). Many gay pornstars don’t get into the business using their real name.