Charlie Chaplin’s daughter, Josephine Hannah Chaplin, died in Paris at the age of 74, according to a notice in the Figaro notebook. She was the fourth of Charlie Chaplin’s eleven children, born of the actor’s fourth marriage to Oona O’Neill, herself the daughter of American playwright Eugene O’Neill.
Born in 1949 in Santa Monica, California, Josephine Chaplin had three sons: Charles, Julien and Arthur.
From an early age, the actress appeared in her father’s films: Limelight (1952) and The Countess from Hong Kong (1967). In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many feature films, such as “L’Odeur des fauves”, “Red Nights”, “Chicken in vinegar” and even in the “Charlots” saga where she played Constance Bonacieux. She also acted in “Jack the Ripper” by Jesus Franco and “The Canterbury Tales” by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The actress has spent a long part of her life in Paris. Over the years, she was very invested in the transmission of the cultural heritage left by the representative of silent cinema. According to The Sun, she had sponsored a statue of her father in Waterville, Ireland. Throughout her life, she will pay homage to him. “We feel that we have done everything we could to ensure that my father’s work is left to posterity in the best possible conditions,” she said.
