page_title: List of orphans and foundlings
section_title: North America
hierarchical_section_title: List of orphans and foundlings / Artists, actors, and entertainers / North America
caption_attribution_description: English: Julia Roberts attending the premiere of Jesus Henry Christ at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
context_page_description: Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. While the exact definition of orphan and foundlings varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment.
context_section_description: Tallulah Bankhead, American actress, orphaned as an infant
  Buffalo Bill, American frontier figure
  Charles Bronson, Lithuanian-American film and television actor
  Carol Burnett, American actress, comedian, singer and writer, raised by her grandmother
  Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker
  William Castle, American film figure, orphaned at age 11
  Henry Darger,  American writer and artist (whose work focused on orphans), orphaned at age 13.
  Tommy Davidson, American comedian, orphaned as infant
  James Dean, American actor
  Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
  Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker
  William C. DeMille, American screenwriter and director
  Jane Fonda, American actress, writer, political activist and fitness guru
  Clark Gable, American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King"
  Ava Gardner, American actress and singer
  John Garfield, American actor
  Judy Garland, American actress, singer and vaudevillian
  Bill Graham, German-American impresario and rock concert promoter
  D. W. Griffith, American film director, writer, and producer
  Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist
  Oliver Hardy, American actor of Laurel and Hardy
  Mariska Hargitay, American actress
  Ice-T, American rapper and actor, rapper, orphaned at age 12
  Brian Jungen, Dene-Zaa artist
  Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and musician
  Veronica Lake, American film, stage, and television actress
  Art Linkletter, Canadian-born American radio and television personality and entertainer, abandoned as an infant
  Ray Liotta, American actor, film producer and voice actor, adopted at 6 months
  George Lopez, American comedian, raised by a grandmother
  Myrna Loy, American film, television and stage actress
  Lee Majors, American film, television and voice actor, orphaned at age 2 & raised by aunt and uncle
  Jayne Mansfield, American actress in film, theatre, television and Playboy Playmates
  Jayne Marie Mansfield, Playboy nude model
  Frances McDormand, American actress, adopted as an infant
  Marilyn Monroe, entertainer, raised in foster care
  Eddie Murphy, American comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer
  Steve Oedekerk, American comedian and film producer, adopted as an infant
  Mary Pickford, Canadian-American film actress, writer, director, and producer
  Priscilla Presley, American actress and entrepreneur
  Kelly Preston, American actress
  Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor, painter and writer
  Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
  Jane Russell, American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols
  Gene Siskel, American film critic, orphaned at age 9 & raised by aunt and uncle
  Barbara Stanwyck, American actress, raised in foster homes from age 2
  Barbra Streisand, American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker
  Lana Turner, American actress
  Andy Warhol, American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art
  Orson Welles, American actor and director, orphaned at age 15
  Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer, abandoned at age 13
caption: Julia Roberts
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