Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31,1944 and is an American actress.
35 Facts About Geraldine Chaplin
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Geraldine Chaplin is a daughter of Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill.
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Geraldine Chaplin made her Broadway acting debut in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes in 1967, and played the role of ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in Raul Araiza's Nefertiti and Akhenaton alongside famous Egyptian actor Salah Zulfikar.
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Geraldine Chaplin played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin in the biopic Chaplin for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination.
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Geraldine Chaplin has appeared in a wide variety of critically recognized Spanish and French films.
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Geraldine Chaplin starred in Les Uns et les Autres, Life Is a Bed of Roses and the Jacques Rivette experimental films Noroit and Love on the Ground.
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Geraldine Chaplin was the partner of director Carlos Saura for 12 years until 1979, starring in his films Ana and the Wolves, Cria Cuervos, Elisa, vida mia, and Mama cumple cien anos.
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Geraldine Chaplin was awarded a Goya Award for her role in En la ciudad sin limites, and was nominated again for The Orphanage.
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Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31,1944, in Santa Monica, California, the fourth child of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, and the first child of his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, whom he married in 1943.
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Charlie Chaplin was 55 when Geraldine Chaplin was born and Oona was 19 years old.
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When Geraldine Chaplin was eight years old, her father took the family on vacation to Britain and Europe.
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Geraldine Chaplin attended boarding school there, where she became fluent in French and Spanish.
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Also in this time period, Geraldine Chaplin appeared in her father's film Limelight.
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At 17 years of age, Geraldine Chaplin decided to forgo college to pursue dance instead, and studied ballet for two years in England, including a period in 1961 at the Royal Ballet School.
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Geraldine Chaplin then danced professionally for a year in Paris.
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Geraldine Chaplin said, "I didn't leave ballet, ballet left me".
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Geraldine Chaplin then found work as a fashion model in Paris.
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When her dream of becoming a ballet dancer ended, Geraldine Chaplin followed her father into what was to become a prolific acting career.
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Geraldine Chaplin came to prominence in the role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago.
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Geraldine Chaplin started what would become a major collaboration that year, starring in Spanish film director Carlos Saura's psychological thriller Peppermint Frappe.
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Geraldine Chaplin starred alongside Charlton Heston in the American historical film The Hawaiians.
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Geraldine Chaplin then appeared in The Three Musketeers, and Nefertiti y Aquenatos of Raul Araiza in which she played the role of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti alongside Egyptian movie star Salah Zulfikar, as well as the sequel, The Four Musketeers.
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Geraldine Chaplin was cast as the obnoxious BBC reporter Opal in Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she received her second Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress.
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Geraldine Chaplin went on to star in the Altman films Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, and then A Wedding, doing Roseland in between.
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Geraldine Chaplin received critical acclaim for her role in Remember My Name, in which she played Anthony Perkins' murderous estranged wife.
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Geraldine Chaplin went on to appear in Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor.
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Geraldine Chaplin received a Goya Mejor Actriz de Reparto for her role in Spanish-Argentine thriller En la ciudad sin limites.
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Geraldine Chaplin starred in the Catalan drama, The Mosquito Net, for which she was awarded the Crystal Globe.
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Geraldine Chaplin reunited with Juan Antonio Bayona for the films The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
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Geraldine Chaplin received the Best Actress Award at the Havana Film Festival for her role in the Dominican Republic film Sand Dollars.
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Geraldine Chaplin's father is Spanish film director Carlos Saura, who directed several films Chaplin appeared in.
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Geraldine Chaplin's daughter, Oona, is an actress in British and Spanish films.
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Geraldine Chaplin married Oona's father, Chilean cinematographer Patricio Castilla, in 2006.
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Geraldine Chaplin negotiated with the kidnappers, who had threatened her infant son.
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Geraldine Chaplin was spending time in residences between Madrid and Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.