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The eldest of 8 children Charles Chaplin had with Oona, the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, little Geraldine makes an appearance, alongside her brothers and sisters, in The Fires of the Rail, directed by her father in 1952. After having grown up between Hollywood, Switzerland and Italy, the teenager with a rebellious temperament joined the Royal Ballet School in London. Playing Cinderella, a dance show staged in Paris in 1963, a year later she found her first film role in Deray's Par un beau matin d'été and appeared very briefly in the famous Casino Royale (1967) without being credited in the credits. The film that launched Geraldine Chaplin's career is David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965), in which she plays the sweet wife of Omar Sharif - resulting in a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Actress.

During the filming, in Spain, of this five-Oscar fresco, Geraldine Chaplin meets the man who will become her favorite director, and her companion for more than ten years: Carlos Saura. The heroine of almost all of the Spanish master's feature films, from hit Peppermint (1967) to Maman a cent ans (1979), often in the roles of a tormented woman, between marital crisis and the burden of childhood traumas, the actress co-wrote in 1969 the screenplay for La Madriguera. This collaboration culminates with Cria Cuervos, behind closed doors tinged with dreaminess which achieved international success in 1976. In a very different genre, we find her the same year as Queen of Austria in The Three Musketeers. The 1970s were also marked by his meeting with Altman, who made she a centerpiece of her Nashville and A Wedding puzzles. The actress will also shoot with a disciple of the great American filmmaker, Alan Rudolph, in Welcome to LA in 1976, Remember My Name in 1978 and The Moderns in 1988.

In France, if in 1971 she gave the reply to De Funès (On a perched tree), Géraldine Chaplin especially inspires the most unique authors, such as Resnais and Rivette, who each conduct it twice, making perfect use of its mixture of eccentricity and gravity: let us quote La Vie est un roman (1983) for the first, and L'Amour par terre (1984) for the second. Seen at Deville (The Soft Journey) and Lelouch (Les Uns et les Autres, 1980), the emaciated-faced actress plays the mother of Winona Ryder in Scorsese's Time of Innocence, and, in a more comical fashion , Anne Bancroft's sister in Family Weekend. In 1992, she played the role of her own grandmother in the biopic that Richard Attenborough devoted to his illustrious father.

Although solicited in many international productions (Jane Eyre (1996), Un homme among the lions (1999)), Géraldine Chaplin continues to tour regularly in Spain (in 2003 she won the Goya for Best Supporting Actor for En la ciudad sin limits). The one who dreamed of becoming a ballerina moves as a solitary dance teacher in Parle avec elle by Almodovar (2002). She continues to cause a sensation in the Iberian country with The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007), one of the most important successes of Spanish cinema in recent years. The actress is also involved in Hollywood productions, as evidenced by her participation in the historical drama Le Pont du Roi Saint-Louis (2003) by Mary McGuckian, with Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, or the bloody Wolfman by Joe Johnston (2010) where Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins hold the top bill. The following year, we find her again in the credits of Le Moine, a French film by Dominik Moll in which she gives the answer to Vincent Cassel. The actress continues to work for the French cinema since we find her later in two films directed by French filmmakers with first Americano, the first feature film directed by Mathieu Demy then in the comedy Et si on vivait tous ensemble ?, an account of the life of a community of seniors where she gives the answer to veterans Jane Fonda, Pierre Richard, Claude Rich and Guy Bedos. a French film by Dominik Moll in which she gives the answer to Vincent Cassel. The actress continues to work for the French cinema since we find her later in two films directed by French filmmakers with first Americano, the first feature film directed by Mathieu Demy then in the comedy Et si on vivait tous ensemble ?, story of the life of a community of seniors where she gives the answer to the veterans Jane Fonda, Pierre Richard, Claude Rich and Guy Bedos. a French film by Dominik Moll in which she gives the answer to Vincent Cassel. The actress continues to work for the French cinema since we find her later in two films directed by French filmmakers with first Americano, the first feature film directed by Mathieu Demy then in the comedy Et si on vivait tous ensemble ?, an account of the life of a community of seniors where she gives the answer to veterans Jane Fonda, Pierre Richard, Claude Rich and Guy Bedos.

Actress with an international career, Geraldine Chaplin nevertheless always shows a particular attachment for Spanish cinema whatever the genre. We have thus been able to meet her in recent years in the drama The Impossible by Juan Antonio Bayona on the tsunami in Thailand in 2004 where again the animated film The Apostle by Fernando Cortizo thus marking her first experience in dubbing. Spain and its civilization are at the heart of Geraldine Chaplin's various projects, even when it is not specifically a Spanish film like the historical fresco There Be Dragons directed by Roland Joffé. In this vast epic taking as a framework the Spanish Civil War and the life of Josemaría Escriva who was the founder of the Order of Opus Dei, the actress s'

Always very eclectic in her choices and the directors with whom she works, Géraldine Chaplin is illustrated in the thriller Another Me directed by the Spanish Isabel Coixet in 2013 and in which she gives the answer to the young English actress Sophie Turner. The actress also appears that year in an episode of the French series led by Jean Reno. In 2015, Geraldine Chaplin returned to French cinema where she had become rather rare in recent years since we meet her in the prestigious cast of Valentin, Valentin by Pascal Thomas adapted from a novel by Ruth Rendell. The actress also appears in the new film by Valérie Donzelli, Marguerite and Julien, presented in the official selection at the last Cannes Film Festival.