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Geraldine Chaplin
Chaplin in Madrid, October 2007
Born	Geraldine Leigh Chaplin July 31, 1944 (1944-07-31) (age 65) Santa Monica, California, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1952–present
Spouse(s)	Patricio Castilla (2006-present)
Domestic partner(s)	Carlos Saura (1970s)

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is an actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.

Personal life

Geraldine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, the first child of actor/director Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill (daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and author Agnes Boulton). Chaplin was educated at a boarding school in Switzerland where she became fluent in French & Spanish, the former being standard in any Swiss school and the latter being demonstrated in some of her performances in films by the Spanish director Carlos Saura, her former husband, with whom she had a twelve-year relationship. She married a long time companion, Chilean cinematographer Patricio Castilla, in 2006 and has two children, Shane (b. 1974, by Saura) and Oona (b. 1986, by Castilla). She is also the half sister of Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Norman Chaplin. She lives much of her time in Miami, Florida at home next to the beach.

Career

When Chaplin was eight years old, she appeared uncredited in her father's film Limelight. When her dream of becoming a ballet dancer ended, she followed her father into the acting profession. David Lean chose her to play Tonya, the main character's devoted wife in his film Doctor Zhivago (1965). During the 1970s she appeared in several of Robert Altman's films. She also starred in nine movies directed by Carlos Saura, including Cría cuervos (1976), Elisa, vida mía (1977), and Mama Turns a Hundred (1979). She played the role of her grandmother Hannah Chaplin in the biographical film about her father, Chaplin.

Filmography

Other films

• Carlos (1971) - Lisa
• The House Without Frontiers (1972) - Actress
• Marriage a la Mode (1973) - Actress
• Yankee Dudler (1973) - Kate Elder
• ¿...Y el prójimo? (1974) - Luisa
• Sommerfuglene (1974) - Anne Zimmler
• Scrim (1976) - Actress
• Noroît (1976, by Jacques Rivette) - Morag
• In memoriam (1977) - Paulina Arevalo
• One Page of Love (1978) - Lise
• Blindfolded Eyes (1978) - Actress
• Mais où est donc Ornicar (1979) - Isabelle
• La viuda de Montiel (1979) - Adelaida
• Hors saisons (1992, by Daniel Schmid) - Anarchist
• Os olhos da Ásia (1996) - Jane Powell
• Crimetime (1996) - Thelma
• Finisterre, donde termina el mundo (1998) - Madre/Mother
• Las caras de la luna (2001) - Joan Turner
• Diario de una ninfómana (2008) - Abuela de Valére/Valeré's grandmother

External links

• Geraldine Chaplin at the Internet Movie Database
• Remember My Name