Ben Vereen

Ben Vereen is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattans High School of Performing Arts.

Vereen was born Benjamin Augustus Middleton on October 10, 1946, in Miami, Florida. While still an infant, Vereen and his family relocated to the BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. He was adopted by James Vereen, a paintfactory worker, and his wife, Pauline, who worked as a maid and theatre wardrobe mistress. He discovered he was adopted when he applied for a passport to join Sammy Davis, Jr. on a tour of Golden Boy to London when he was 25. He was raised Pentecostal.

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