How to Pronounce 25 Difficult Celebrity Names

No matter how many souls inhabit her head in The Host, it's a safe bet none of them would be a able to correctly pronounce the ingenue's first name, Irish for "freedom," correctly.

PRONUNCIATION: SEER-sha Ro-nahn [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

As the Les Mis star told Hollywood.com last year, she doesn't exactly sing the praises of those who pronounce her name SIG-freed à la a certain Vegas act. How do you really say her name?

PRONUNCIATION: Uh-MAN-duh SIGH-fred [Image Credit: Wenn]

As much as you just want to call him Jax, the Sons of Anarchy star does have a last name you have no idea how to say. Until now!

PRONUNCIATION: CHAR-lee HUH-nuhm [Image Credit: Daniel Tanner/Wenn]

Don't worry, Game of Thrones fans: An easy pronunciation is coming.

PRONUNCIATION: Nee-ko-LY COS-ter Wall-DOW [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

PRONUNCIATION: Shar-LEES THAIR-en [Image Credit: Wenn]

We'd love to tell you pronouncing the Love, Actually actor's name is easier than it seems, but it's not, actually.

PRONUNCIATION: CHOO-ih-tell EDGE-ee-oh-for [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

The umlaut on Chloë's first name is the least of our worries.

PRONUNCIATION: KLO-ee SEV-uh-nee [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

That's right — you've been saying Fiennes' name wrong this whole time, but The English Patient star has been more than patient with us bloody Americans.

PRONUNCIATION: Rayf Fynz [Image Credit: Wenn]

That's right — you've been saying the director's name wrong this whole time, but that's still not as insulting as him losing the Oscar for Hugo.

PRONUNCIATION: MAR-tin skor-SEH-see [Image Credit: Wenn]

That's right — you've been saying Demi's name only half right this whole time.

PRONUNCIATION: Duh-mee Mor [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

Even if Jean Grey's only X-Men power was the ability to say her own name correctly, we'd be impressed.

PRONUNCIATION: FOM-kuh Yans-Sen [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

The Oscar-nominated star might be known and loved for her easy-going nature, but her name certainly isn't.

PRONUNCIATION: GAB-or-ay SIH-dih-bay [Image Credit: FayesVision/Wenn]

Wally De Backer, forget cutting us off. You didn't have to change your name to something unpronounceable.

PRONUNCIATION: Go-tee-YAY [Image Credit: Jeff Daly/PictureGroup/AP Images]

The Welsh actor's name is more confounding than Sarah Michelle Gellar's choice to return to TV with Ringer.

PRONUNCIATION: YO-an GRIH-fith [Image Credit: Nikki Nelson/Wenn]

Become The Master... of learning how to say the Oscar-nominated actor's name.

PRONUNCIATION: Wah-KEEN FEE-niks [Image Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/Wenn]

Is the Safe Haven star's last name pronounced "How"? "Huff"? Or, worst of all, "Ho"? Luckily for Hough, the actress has a SFW last name.

PRONUNCIATION: Joo-lee-an Huff [Image Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/Wenn]

Even vowels can't get enough of the heartthrob.

PRONUNCIATION: MATH-yoo Mih-KAH-nuh-hay [Image Credit: Nikki Nelson/Wenn]

If only Wonderland came complete with a "PRONOUNCE ME" vial for the Alice in Wonderland actress' last name.

PRONUNCIATION: MEE-uh VAH-shee-KOF-ska [Image Credit: Wenn]

The actress' 1993 movie, Dazed and Confused, might as well describe how we feel looking at her name.

PRONUNCIATION: MEE-lah YOH-ve-vich [Image Credit: Wenn]

You are the last person to arrive... at the realization that you've been saying The Amazing Race host's name incorrectly.

PRONUNCIATION: Fill KOH-gahn [Image Credit: Nikki Nelson / Wenn]

It was easy for the actress to get wrapped up with being nice in her Mummy days when people would mispronounce her last name, but after winning an Oscar for The Constant Gardener, she told press she'd start correcting fans. "In America, everyone says it wrong," she told 'New York.' "I learned to be polite."

PRONUNCIATION: RAY-chull Vice [Image Credit: Wenn]

This "Soldier of Love" arms herself with a deceiving name.

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The actor has been vocal about his dislike for his name, which translates to "Thank God for Beef." Still, his name's more survivable than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

PRONUNCIATION: SHY-uh Luh-BUHF [Image Credit: Cinzia Camela/Wenn]

It's fitting a funny man would come with an equally funny name.

PRONUNCIATION: Zak GAL-i-fe-nak-iss [Image Credit: Apega/Wenn]