Chris Pratt Stage Name Almost Christo When Breaking into Hollywood

Chris Pratt almost wasn’t his name.

Indeed, the Mercy star revealed that though his given name is Christopher Michael Pratt, he had another idea for a moniker when breaking into Hollywood. 

“I was going to be Christo,” he shared on the Jan. 22 episode of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I had a name tag that said ‘Christopher’—but this is at a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. But the P-H-E-R part got rubbed off, so it said Christo and everyone called me Christo for a long time.” 

“While I was working at Bubba Gump, high turnover rate,” he continued. “The new employees thought my name was Christo.” 

While the name caught on in the service industry, the Guardians of the Galaxy star admitted it didn’t quite catch on in Tinsel Town. 

“As I navigated being discovered and brought to Los Angeles to follow my dreams,” he said. “Part of me thought in earnest, ‘Maybe I’d go by just Christo.’”