Halle Berry – Though Halle Berry is now known for being an Oscar-winning actress and international beauty, she didn’t always live the high life. Early in her career, Berry moved to New York City to pursue her dream as a fashion model and actress. Berry, while trying to find work in New York, briefly stayed in a homeless shelter. At only 21 years old, this star never gave up and had no financial help from her parents. Now, she is a multiple award winner and an unforgettable talent!
Jean-Claude Van Damme – Struggling to gain his acting career, he was sleeping and starving on the streets of LA.Van Damme has said that he never wants his kids to go through what he did.
Sylvester Stallone – Sylvester Stallone,Oscar-winning actor and screenwriter; film director-producer, for a while slept at the bus station. He once said “I was broke and basically sleeping in the Port Authority bus station for three weeks straight. I read in a trade paper about this film [The Party at Kitty and Studs”, 1970] that was paying $100 a day—for a $100 a day I would wreak havoc. Instead of doing something desperate, I worked for two days for $200 and got myself out of the bus station.”.
Tupac Shakur – Actor and rap music star. Impoverished throughout most of his childhood, with his mother and half-sister, he moved between homeless shelters and low grade accommodations in New York City.
David Letterman – David Letterman wasn’t always one of the kings of late night talk. Born in Indiana, Letterman fell in love with talk shows working at his college radio station. From there, he made the move to Los Angeles where, because of financial constraints, he had to live out of his red Chevy. Now, Letterman is a hugely successful television icon and a role model for anyone in the industry for his industriousness and persistence in pursuit of success!
Charles Chaplin – Though Charlie Chaplin wrote film history with his famous character, “The Tramp,” this British born comedian wasn’t always the icon we know him as. As a young boy, his mother was put in a mental health facility and later his father passed away. Subsequently, Chapin lived on his own in London’s streets until he was taken in by foster care. Chaplin had a rough life as a child but made a dynasty for himself after his success in silent film and later, the talkies. Chaplin is one of the seminal players in film history with an upbringing that would make even the tramp look like a poser!
Shania Twain – Grammy Award-winning singer was in a homeless shelter in Toronto, Canada in late 1978 at age 13 with her mother and siblings, as recalled in the book: Shania Twain: The Biography by Robin Eggar, 2005.
Kelly Clarkson – Grammy Award-winning singer; American Idol television talent show 1st-season winner 2002, lived in a car and in a shelter, with her female roommate after a major structural fire forced them out of a 71-unit apartment building in West Hollywood, California in March 2002. In an interview with Inside Edition television news magazine, September 5 2002, her roommate-fellow Texan, actress/singer Janet Harvick was quoted as saying, “It was really, really rough because we had just moved here, and we had just moved in the day of the fire. We knew nobody here, I mean nobody, so the night of the fire, the next day, and night, we stayed in our car.”
Daniel Craig – The new James Bond, Daniel Craig was sleeping at London’s park benches struggling to be an actor.
John Woo – Chinese-born film director (Mission Impossible 2, Broken Arrow, Windtalkers, etc.) lived in a crude shelter having been made homeless for a year and losing everything at age seven, along with his family, after a major fire in Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1953 destroyed his home and those of 50,000 other residents.
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