Dawn & Lenny
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Dawn French and Lenny Henry Adoption
Comedians Dawn French and Lenny Henry were married 20 years ago, and adopted their daughter, Billie, in 1992. The couple guard their daughter\'s privacy, although Henry has spoken about his pride in her achievements and their desire to spend time at home with her, in spite of their careers
Mia Farrow
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Mia Farrow - Adoption
Serial adopter Mia Farrow had four children, and adopted 10 more from around the world. These children all had a variety of special needs - an asthmatic Vietnamese orphan, a polio victim abandoned at a Calcutta station, two are blind, one has cerebral palsy and another was born addicted to crack. Mia Farrow has the financial means to help these children, it\'s a very selfless thing to do, and she\'s essentially done it on her own
Nicole & Tom
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Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise - Adoption
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (now divorced, of course) adopted both Isabella Jane (11) and Conor (9) as babies. So big is the phenomenon of foreign adoption in the US that there was recently an advertisement for digital cameras in which a proud couple in an aeroplane pose with their newly adopted Chinese baby
Kate Jackson
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Kate Jackson - Adoption
After three failed marriages and no kids, original Charlie\'s Angels actor Kate Jackson made headlines by becoming a single mum with the help of celebrity adoption advocate Rosie O\'Donnell
Michelle Pfeiffer
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Michelle Pfeifer - Adoption
Michelle Pfeiffer famously said she had decided to adopt because she had given up hope of meeting someone and starting a family, and adopted her daughter Claudia Rose in March 1993. Shortly afterwards she met her future husband, David E Kelley, creator of Ally McBeal. The couple went on to have a son of their own together
Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie - adoption
Actor Angelina Jolie recently adopted a little sister for her 3-year-old adopted son, Maddox. Zahara Marley is an Ethiopian girl, less than a year old, the orphan of parents who died of AIDS. Angelina traveled to Ethiopia with Brad Pitt to complete the adoption
Calista Flockhart
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Calista Flockhart - Adoption
Calista Flockhart\'s baby boy came through an odd route, being the fifth child of a Californian medical technician, who got in touch with the actress after reading in a magazine that she was thinking of adopting. To all the celebs who\'ve adopted, Drew Barrymore has a question: \'Do you think they do it because of their bodies? That\'s so (bleeped) up.\' Barrymore doesn\'t mention anyone by name, but asserts, \'I would never adopt because I was vain\'
Diane Keaton
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Dianne Keaton - Adoption
Diane Keaton was 50 when she adopted her first boy, Dexter Dean, and has since adopted another, Duke. Stars of the silver screen Bette Davis and Joan Crawford both adopted children at the height of their careers, but few can top the extravagance of the singer and dancer Josephine Baker, who famously adopted a multi-racial \'rainbow tribe\'
Liza Minelli
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Liza Minelli and David Guest - Adoption
In 2002 newlyweds Liza Minelli (58) and David Gest (51), now separated, announced plans to adopt four children \'one from each race\'. They started by ordering their very own baby, then aged three, and named her Serena after the beautiful hall where Minelli used to attend alcoholism lectures. You have to wonder what Serena\'s ever done to deserve them as parents...
Sharon Stone
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Sharon Stone - Adoption
Actor Sharon Stone adopted her son Roan a week after his birth in May 2000 when she was 42. Stone had had several miscarriages before adopting the child from a teenage mother in Texas. Two months ago (May 2005) Stone adopted her second child. Sharon reportedly rushed home from London when the infant, who will be called Laird Vonne Stone, was born to a surrogate mother
Sharon Osbourne
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Sharron Osbourne - Adoption
handbag.com\'s 2002 Woman of the Year, Sharon Osbourne, adopted Robert Marcato, a friend of daughters Aimee and Kelly, after his mother died of cancer. The family are putting him through drama school, and he appeared on the family\'s infamous TV show as \'Baby Osbourne\', despite being 18 when he was adopted
Steven & Kate
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Steven Speilberg and Kate Capshaw Adoption
Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg have four biological children aged between eight and 12, and adopted another two (now aged nine and 17) - they also have two children from previous relationships, bringing the brood up to eight
