Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born in Santa Monica,
California on July 31, 1944. She was the fourth child of the movie star Charlie
Chaplin. She was the first of his eight children with his fourth and last wife,
Oona O'Neill. Her grandfather was the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning
American playwright Eugene O'Neill. When Geraldine was eight years old, the
family moved to Switzerland, where she went to school. This is where she
learned to speak both French and Spanish.
When Chaplin was eight years old, she acted in her
father's movie “Limelight”. She studied at the Royal Ballet School, in hopes of
becoming a ballet dancer. When that did not work out, she became an actress
instead.
In 1978 the Chaplin family were the victims of a plot by
kidnappers who had stolen the body of Charlie Chaplin for ransom. Geraldine
negotiated with the kidnappers, who threatened to shoot her baby son in the
knees
David Lean chose her to play Tonya, the wife of the
leading role, in his movie Doctor Zhivago. In an interview about the movie, she
said "Because of my name, the right doors opened." She received a
Golden Globe Award for her performance.
In 1967, she acted in a famous play in the Broadway
theatre, Lillian Hellman's “The Little Foxes”. Her performance was praised in a
review in The New York Times. Cliff Barnes wrote that Chaplin "acts with
spirit and force," all the while "acting with a magnificently
raw-voiced sincerity" in what was a performance of "surprising power."
She received a BAFTA nomination for her role in “Welcome to L.A.” in 1976. She
played her grandmother, Hannah Chaplin in the movie, “Chaplin” in 1992 and
received her third Golden Globe nomination. She has also acted in “The Age of
Innocence” in 1993, “Home for the Holidays” in 1995, and “Jane Eyre” in 1996.
Chaplin has also acted in several Spanish and French
films. She received a Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in a
Spanish-Argentine movie, “In the City Without Limits” in 2001.
After living in Spain for over 25 years, Chaplin left in
1992 because of personal difficulties. She moved back to her family home in
Vevey, Switzerland. She married Patricio Castilla in 2006. She has two children
and a godson: She has a home beside the beach in Miami and also spends time living
in Madrid and Switzerland.
In 2018, she starred as Iris in Jurassic World: Fallen
Kingdom.
CHAPLIN,
Geraldine (aka Géraldine Chaplin) (Geraldine Leigh Chaplin)
[7/31/1944, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. - ] – writer, dancer, film, TV actress,
great-granddaughter of actor James O'Neill [1847-1920], granddaughter of
playwright Eugene O'Neill (Eugene
Gladstone O'Neill) [1888-1953],
daughter of producer, director, writer, composer, film editor, film, actor
Charlie Chaplin (Charles Spencer
Chaplin) [1889-1977] actress Oona
Chaplin (Oona O'Neill) [1925-1991], niece of director,
writer, actor Syd Chaplin (Sydney
Hawkes) sister of producer, writer, actor Michael Chaplin (Michael John Chaplin) [1946- ], actress, singer Josephine Chaplin (Josephine Hannah Chaplin) [1949- ], actress,
circus performer Victoria Chaplin [1951- ], recording engineer Eugene Chaplin (Eugene Anthony Chaplin) [1953- ], director, writer, composer, actor Christopher Chaplin (Christopher James Chaplin)
[1962- ], half-sister of actor Charles
Chaplin Jr. (Charles Spencer Chaplin
Jr.) [1925-1968], actor, singer Sydney
Chaplin (Sydney Earl Chaplin) [1926-2009], Charles Chaplin Jr.,
aunt of circu performer James
Thiérrée (James Spencer Henry Edmond
Marcel Thierrée) [1974- ], production manager, actress Dolores
Chaplin [1976- ], producer, director,
writer, actress Carmen Chaplin [1977-
], producer, actress Kiera Chaplin (Kiera
Sunshine Chaplin) [1982- ], mother of Shane Saura Chaplin
[1976- ] with director, writer,
photographer Carlos Sauro (Carlos
Saura Atarés) [1932-
], married
to producer, director, assistant director, writer, cinematographer, cameraman,
film editor Patricio Castilla (2006 - ) mother of Oona Castilla Chaplin (Oona Castilla Chaplin) [1986-
].
Carlos (TV) – 1971 (Lisa)
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