Geraldine Chaplin
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Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944)<ref name=HollywoodDOTcom>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=Allocine>Template:Cite journal</ref> is an American actress whose long career has included multilingual roles in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German films.
Geraldine is a daughter of Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and thus a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.<ref name=WilliamsIndep110715/> After beginnings in dance<ref name=HollywoodDOTcom/><ref name=WilliamsIndep110715/> and modeling,<ref name=McDonald52ndChgo/> she turned her attention to acting, and made her English-language acting debut (and came to prominence in what would be a Golden Globe–nominated role<ref name=Variety660106/>) as Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965).<ref name=Debut/> She made her Broadway acting debut in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes in 1967,<ref name=LittleFoxes/> and played ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in Raúl Araiza's Nefertiti and Akhenaton (Nefertiti y Aquenatos) (1973) alongside Egyptian actor Salah Zulfikar. Chaplin received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). She received a BAFTA nomination for her role in Welcome to L.A. (1976). She played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin in the biopic Chaplin (1992), for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination.
Chaplin has appeared in a wide variety of critically recognized Spanish and French films. She starred in The Ones and the Others (Les Uns et les Autres) (1981), Life Is a Bed of Roses (La vie est un roman) (1983) and the Jacques Rivette experimental films No King (Revenge) (Noroît (Une vengeance)) (1976) and Love on the Ground (L'Amour par terre) (1984). She was the partner of director Carlos Saura for 12 years until 1979, starring in his films Ana and the Wolves (Ana y los lobos) (1973), Raise Ravens (Cría Cuervos) (1976), Elisa, My Life (Elisa, vida mía) (1977), and Mama Turns 100 (Mamá cumple cien años) (1979). She was awarded a Goya Award for her role in In the City Without Limits (En la ciudad sin límites) (2002),<ref name=2002Goya/> and was nominated again for The Orphanage (El orfanato) (2007)<ref>.{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her contribution to Spanish cinema culminated in her receiving the gold medal from the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in 2006.<ref name=medalladeoro/> In 2018, she starred in Red Land (Rosso Istria), an Italian film by Maximiliano Hernando Bruno based on Norma Cossetto and the foibe massacres. In 2019, she played the Duchess of Windsor in season 3 of the Netflix period drama series The Crown.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early life and educationEdit
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31, 1944, in Santa Monica, California,<ref name=HollywoodDOTcom/><ref name=Allocine/><ref name=ThomsonTNBDoF10>Template:Cite book</ref> the fourth child of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, and the first child of his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill,<ref name=WilliamsIndep110715>Template:Cite journal</ref> whom he married in 1943.<ref name=EBcharlie>Template:Cite book</ref> Charlie Chaplin was 55 when Geraldine Chaplin was born and Oona was 19 years old. Geraldine was the first of their eight children.<ref name=WilliamsIndep110715/><ref name=EBcharlie/> Her paternal grandparents were English Charles Chaplin Sr. and Hannah Chaplin (born Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Hill), and her maternal grandparents were Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
When Geraldine was eight years old, her father took the family on vacation to Britain and Europe. Two days after the family set sail, the U.S. Attorney General James P. McGranery signed an order refusing Chaplin permission to re-enter the country.<ref name=Marland>Template:Cite book Template:Dead link</ref> Chaplin's father moved the family to Switzerland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She attended boarding school there, where she became fluent in French and Spanish. Also in this time period, Geraldine appeared in her father's film Limelight (1952).<ref name=HollywoodDOTcom/>
CareerEdit
Dance and modelingEdit
At 17 years of age, Chaplin decided to forgo college to pursue dance instead,<ref name=WilliamsIndep110715/> and studied ballet for two years in England, including a period in 1961 at the Royal Ballet School, London.<ref name=HollywoodDOTcom/> She then danced professionally for a year in Paris.Template:Citation needed Although a good dancer, she felt she had not trained from an early enough age to excel at it and so gave up ballet.Template:Citation needed
Chaplin then found work as a fashion model in Paris.Template:Citation needed<ref name=McDonald52ndChgo>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=Fallaci>Template:Cite interview</ref>
Early acting, 1965–1969Edit
When her dream of becoming a ballet dancer ended, Chaplin followed her father into what was to become a prolific acting career.<ref name=WilliamsIndep110715/> She came to prominence in the role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965).<ref name=WilliamsIndep110715/> Lean chose her to play the main character's wife,<ref name=Debut>"Geraldine Chaplin to Make American debut in 'Tonia'". The New York Times. November 21, 1964. pp. 26</ref> for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination in the category, "Most Promising Female Newcomer".<ref name=Variety660106>Template:Cite journal This online PDF contains an expertly assembled compilation of news reports and reviews about the movie.</ref> In an interview to publicize the film, she explained, "Because of my name, the right doors opened."<ref>Reed, Rex "If My Name Was Annie Smith". The New York Times. December 10, 1967. pp. x7.</ref>
In 1967, she made her Broadway debut in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes.<ref name=LittleFoxes>Zolotow, Sam. "'Changes coming in "The Little Foxes"". The New York Times. November 2, 1967</ref> Her performance was praised by Clive Barnes in a New York Times review, where he noted that Chaplin "acts with spirit and force... with a magnificently raw-voiced sincerity" giving a performance of "surprising power".<ref>Barnes, Clive. "Theater: 'The Little Foxes' Revisited". The New York Times. January 6, 1968. pp. 24</ref>
She also started what would become a major collaboration that year, starring in Spanish film director Carlos Saura's psychological thriller Peppermint Frappé (1967) and playing two women in the film, Ana and Elena.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The Hawaiians through Cría Cuervos, 1970–1979Edit
Chaplin starred alongside Charlton Heston in the American historical film The Hawaiians (1970). Chaplin then appeared in The Three Musketeers (1973), and Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973) of Raúl 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 (1974). Chaplin was cast as the obnoxious BBC reporter Opal in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), for which she received her second Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress.<ref name="gg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She went on to star in the Altman films Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), and then A Wedding (1978), doing Roseland (1977) in between.Chaplin later occasionally co-wrote scripts for and starred in several later Saura films—for these, receiving her greatest critical success <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> such as Ana and the Wolves (1973), Cría Cuervos (1976), Elisa, vida mía (1977), and Mamá cumple cien años (1979). Cría Cuervos won the Special Jury Prize Award at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Critic Vincent Canby praised Chaplin's "superb" performance.<ref>Canby, Vince. "Cria! Film on Childhood". The New York Times. May 19, 1977. pp. 71</ref>
Chaplin starred in several films produced by Altman and directed by Alan Rudolph, with a BAFTA-nominated role in Welcome to L.A. (1976), in which she played a housewife addicted to cab rides.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She received critical acclaim for her role in Remember My Name (1978), in which she played Anthony Perkins' murderous estranged wife.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In an interview with The New York Times in 1977,<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> Chaplin cited that her career was going more successfully in Europe than in the United States. She complained that "I only seem to work with Altman here ... I don't have any offers in this country, none. Not even an interesting script to read. The only person who ever asks me is Altman—and James Ivory."<ref name=":0" />
French-language and other roles, 1980–1989Edit
Template:Expand section In the 1980s, Chaplin starred in several French-language roles, including Claude Lelouch's Les Uns et les Autres (1981), Alain Resnais' Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), Jacques Rivette's experimental Love on the Ground (1984), and then the American film, I Want to Go Home (1989).
Chaplin also starred in Rudolph's 1920s-set film, The Moderns (1988).
Chaplin, Scorsese, and Zeffirelli, 1990–1999Edit
In the biographical film about her father, Chaplin (1992), she played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin, for which she was nominated for her third Golden Globe Award.<ref name=gg/> Soon after, she was directed by Martin Scorsese in The Age of Innocence (1993), and appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's version of Jane Eyre (1996).
Chaplin went on to appear in Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (1997).
The Spanish period, 2000–presentEdit
Chaplin received a Goya Mejor Actriz de Reparto for her role in Spanish-Argentine thriller En la ciudad sin límites (In the City Without Limits, 2002).<ref name=2002Goya>CINE-PREMIOS GOYA Geraldine Chaplin recibe Goya Mejor Actriz de Reparto. Spanish Newswire Services. February 1, 2003.</ref> Other notable Spanish films she collaborated with and appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002), and Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (2007), for which she received a second Goya Award nomination.Template:Citation needed She also starred in the Catalan drama, The Mosquito Net (2010), for which she was awarded the Crystal Globe.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2006 Chaplin was awarded the gold medal by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España—the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences—for her contribution to Spanish cinema.<ref name=medalladeoro>"La Academia de Cine concede la medalla de oro a Geraldine Chaplin". El País. July 7, 2006</ref>
Chaplin appeared in The Wolfman, in 2010.
In Americano, she appeared with Salma Hayek, and featured with Jane Fonda in All Together (both 2011). She reunited with Juan Antonio Bayona for the films The Impossible (2012), A Monster Calls (2016), and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Chaplin received the Best Actress Award at the Havana Film Festival for her role in the Dominican Republic film Sand Dollars (2014).Template:Citation needed
In 2018, she starred in Red Land (Rosso Istria), an Italian movie by Maximiliano Hernando Bruno based on Norma Cossetto and the foibe massacres.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2022, she appeared in the music video for the song "Pure",<ref>Template:Citation</ref> by Swiss artist Gjon's Tears.
Personal lifeEdit
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Chaplin has two children, Shane and Oona. Her son Shane Saura Chaplin was born in 1974. His father is Spanish film director Carlos Saura, who directed several films Chaplin appeared in. Her daughter Oona is now an actress in British and Spanish films. Chaplin married Oona's father, Chilean cinematographer Patricio Castilla, in 2006.
In 1978, the Chaplin family were the victims of a failed extortion plot by kidnappers who had stolen the body of Charlie Chaplin. Geraldine Chaplin negotiated with the kidnappers, who had also threatened her infant son.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Template:As of, Chaplin has maintained a home in Miami. She also was spending time in residences between Madrid and Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland (the latter near the former long-time home of her parents).<ref name=PhillipsTrib161013>Template:Cite journal</ref>
FilmographyEdit
FilmEdit
TelevisionEdit
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| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | La familia Colón | Silvia | Episode: "Esa muchacha llamada Silvia como una golondrina" |
| The Danny Thomas Hour | Donna (Hippie Girl) | Episode: "The Scene" | |
| 1971 | Carlos | Lisa | Television film |
| 1973 | Nefertiti y Aquenatos | Nefertiti | Television film |
| 1978 | The Word | Naomi Dunn | Miniseries; 4 episodes |
| Short Letter to the Long Goodbye | Judith Seldan | Television film | |
| 1981 | The House of Mirth | Lily Bart | |
| 1983 | My Cousin Rachel | Contessa Rachel Sangalletti | Miniseries; 4 episodes |
| 1985 | The Corsican Brothers | Madame Savilia de Franchi | Television film |
| 1991 | Duel of Hearts | Mrs. Miller | |
| 1993 | Screen One | Beverly | Episode: "A Foreign Field" |
| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Empress Munodi | Miniseries; 1 episodes |
| 1997 | The Odyssey | Eurycleia of Ithaca | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor | Mother Teresa | Television film | |
| 1999 | Mary, Mother of Jesus | Elizabeth | |
| 2000 | In the Beginning | Jochebed | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Dinotopia | Oriana | Miniseries; 1 episode |
| 2003 | Winter Solstice | Gloria Blundell | Television film |
| 2004 | A Christmas Carol | Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come / Blind Beggarwoman | |
| 2006 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Mrs. Fane | Episode: "Sleeping Murder" |
| Les Aventuriers des mers du Sud | Maggie | Television film | |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Alice | Episode: "Henry V" |
| 2013 | Jo | Liliane Coberg | Episode: "Place de la Concorde" |
| 2016 | Beyond the Walls | Rose | Miniseries; 3 episodes |
| 2017 | Electric Dreams | Irma | Episode: "Impossible Planet" |
| 2019 | The Crown | Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Supporting role (season 3) 2 episodes |
| 2020 | Britannia | Queen Mother of Amena | Season 2, Episode 5 |
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