Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is a British-American actress.
She started her career through dance and modelling, and her big break came with a role as Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Newcomer in 1965. She went on to build herself a long, prolific and acclaimed career, especially in French and Spanish cinema. (She's fluent in both French and Spanish.)
She is the fourth child of Charlie Chaplin, her mother is Oona O'Neill (Charlie's fourth and last wife), and she is the mother of fellow actor Oona Chaplin.
Selected filmography:
- Limelight (1952) as Little Girl in Opening Scene (uncredited)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) as Tonya Gromeko — Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Female Newcomer
- I Killed Rasputin (1967) as Mounia Golovine
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) as Girl at Dance
- A House Without Boundaries (1972) as Lucía Alfaro
- Z.P.G. (1972) as Carol McNeil
- The Three Musketeers (1973) as Queen Anne of Austria
- The Four Musketeers (1974)
- The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
- Nashville (1975) as Opal — Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress
- Cría Cuervos (1976) as Maria/Anna
- Welcome to L.A. (1976) as Karen Hood — BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress
- A Wedding (1978) as Rita Billingsley
- Mama Turns 100 (1979) as Ana
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1980) as Ella Zelinsky
- Chaplin (1992) as her own grandmother, Hannah Chaplin — Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress
- Home for the Holidays (1995) as Aunt Glady
- A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004) as Ghost of Christmas Yet to Be
- Marple (2006) as Mrs. Fane
- The Wolfman (2010) as Maleva
- The Monk (2011) as Abbess
- A Monster Calls (2016) as Head Teacher
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017) as Irma Gordon
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) as Iris
- The Crown (2019) as Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Tropes associated with this actress:
- Production Posse: Appears in all four movies directed by Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
