Ben Vereen

While applying for a passport when he was 21, he learned that he was adopted and that his birth name was Benjamin Augustus Middleton. After many decades of searching, he finally traced his mother, Essie May Middleton (Pearson). She was already deceased, but he did meet his blood family, including an older sister living in New Haven, Connecticut.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.