Josephine Hannah Chaplin (born March 28, 1949) is an American actress and the daughter of filmmaker

Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...

and his fourth wife,

Oona O'Neill Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was an actress who was the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of English actor and film-maker Ch ...

. She had a featured role in

Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...

's ''

The Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''Masterpiece, ...

'' (1972) as

May May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the third of seven months to have a length of 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, May ...

, the adulterous wife of the elderly Sir January.

Personal life

Chaplin had a son, Julien Ronet, by French actor

Maurice Ronet Maurice Ronet (13 April 1927 – 14 March 1983) was a French film actor, director, and writer. Early life Maurice Ronet was born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet in Nice, Alpes Maritimes. He was the only child of professional stage actors Émile Ro ...

, with whom she lived until his death in 1983. Chaplin was married to Greek furrier Nicholas Sistovaris; the couple have one child, Charly. Chaplin married

Jean-Claude Gardin Jean-Claude Gardin (3 April 1925 - 8 April 2013) was a French archaeologist who is recognized as being one of the founders of archaeological computing. Gardin worked with the organizations UNESCO and the European Atomic Energy Community in the 195 ...

in 1989, with whom she has a son, Arthur. They stayed married until Gardin's death in 2013.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1952) as the Child in opening scene (uncredited) * ''

A Countess from Hong Kong ''A Countess from Hong Kong'' is a 1967 British romantic comedy film scored, written, and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and the final film directed, written, produced and scored by him. Based on the life of a former Russian aristocrat as he calls ...

'' (1967) * ''

Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''magnum opus' ...

'' (1972) * '' Escape to the Sun'' (1972) * ''L'Odeur des fauves'' (1972) * ''Les Quatre Charlots mousquetaires'' (1974) * '' À nous quatre, Cardinal!'' (1974) * ''

Nuits Rouges ''Nuits Rouges'' is a 1974 French-Italian crime and thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title ''Shadowman'' in 1975. Cast * Gayle Hunnicutt as La ...

'' (1974) * ''

Docteur Françoise Gailland ''Docteur Françoise Gailland'' is a 1976 French film directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, and starring Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer and Isabelle Huppert. It won the César Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for Best ...

'' (1976) * ''

The Peaks of Zelengora ''The Peaks of Zelengora'' ( sr, Врхови Зеленгоре/Vrhovi Zelengore) is a 1976 in film, 1976 Yugoslavia, Yugoslav war drama directed by Zdravko Velimirović. Plot During the 1943 Battle of Sutjeska, Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav p ...

'' (1976) * ''

Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer wa ...

'' (1976) * ''À l'ombre d'un été'' (1976) * ''

The Bay Boy ''The Bay Boy'' is a 1984 Canadian drama film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression. It features the screen deb ...

'' (1984) * ''

Poulet au vinaigre ''Cop au Vin'' (french: Poulet au vinaigre) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The original French title is a pun: it literally means "vinegar chicken," but "poulet" is als ...

'' (1985). * ''Coïncidences'' (1986) * ''Downtown Heat'' (1994)

Television

* ' (1975) * ''Les années d'illusion'' (1977) * ' (1979) * ' (1981) * ''Donatien-François, marquis de Sade'' (1985) * ''Symphonie'' (1986) * ' (1987) * ''Hemingway'' (1988) * ''Le masque'' (1989)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chaplin, Josephine American people of British descent American people of English descent American people of Irish descent 1949 births Living people Josephine Actresses from Santa Monica, California 20th-century American actresses American film actresses American television actresses 21st-century American women