Actress/singer Keke Palmer performs at Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards held at Galen Center on March 31, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for KCA)

Actress Keke Palmer will star in a Lifetime original movie entitled, Abducted: The Carlina White Story. The film is based on the true story of Carlina White, a woman who solved her own kidnapping mystery and found her birth parents after being separated for over 20 years. Sherri Shepherd and Aunjanue Ellis will join Palmer in the cast.

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Keke Palmer, Sherri Shepherd and Aunjanue Ellis will star in Lifetime’s newest original movie, Abducted: The Carlina White Story. The film is based on the true life story of Carlina White, a girl who solved her own kidnapping mystery and reunites herself with her birth parents after 23 years.

White, played by Palmer, was abducted from a Harlem hospital in 1987 by a women who posed to be a nurse. Ann Pettway, played by Ellis, raised White just 45-miles outside of Manhattan in Bridgeport, Connecticut, under the name Nejdra “Netty” Nance.

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