What about the "true owner" of the identity, if there is one? In this case, there was a guy who was imprisoned for a couple of years and forcibly medicated because his identity was stolen.

ID thief pats rent and some back rent too.

Sorry, I meant, "pays" and not "pats"

I would be much more OK with what he did (at some point the stolen identity IS his identity), but not when there's a living person who also has that identity!!

You can start going by another name. Nobody side eyes Bob for not going by Robert. What makes this different is the fraud.

If the identity is unused, sure.

But if you've been destroying someone else's life, as here, absolutely not.

The key part is you cannot change your birthday - that aspect makes it clear identity theft and not just use of a different given name (legal in many jurisdictions).

I'm sorry. Are you claiming that an actress who lies about her age is conducting clear identity theft?

I have a sister who belongs in jail then!

It's problematic. I have a friend who is a parolee. He had trouble getting parole. It was only once he was out and parole officers kept looking at him funny and whispering about him having a fucked-up record that we looked into it and found someone else had used his identity while he was in prison and committed a dozen really heinous crimes which all got added to my friend's record somehow.

As long as they get some squatters lefts too.