8 Famous People Who Overcame Homelessness.

2. Charlie Chaplin

• via highviewart.com

   

  You wouldn’t expect that the most notorious actor of the first half of the 20th century and unquestionably the king of the silent age had an extremely tough childhood.

   

  Charlie’s father died when he was only a boy and his mother (from whom he inherited his bipolar disorder) in and out of the hospital and different asylums, which left young Charlie working and sleeping on the streets of London… and this was before he was even ten years old!