Lady Gaga Will Go by Stefani Germanotta in Bradley Cooper's 'A Star Is Born' Remake

A Star Is Born isn't just Bradley Cooper's directorial debut—it's also Lady Gaga's big screen introduction as Stefani Germanotta. The pop superstar's plan to use her birth name was revealed on Monday alongside a little more material about the remake.

The first photo from the production shows a brunette Lady Germanotta, as Ally, singing into a mic while Cooper's Jackson Maine—"a country music star on the brink of decline when he discovers a talented unknown named Ally," Deadline writes—backs her up on electric guitar. Concert scenes will be filmed in Indio, Calif. this week in between Coachella's two weekends of fun. (Gaga is a headliner, and dropped a new song, "The Cure," to celebrate.)