"Joker" Was Based On This True Story of an Unhinged Man

A Mark of God

As it turns out, that was the way the actor was born. Technically speaking, the scar is a microform cleft, which is the easiest case of a cleft lip. However, the actor frequently refers to it as an "act of God." He explained that before he was born, his mother felt a sharp pain, and the family attributed that pain to his mystery marking. 

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