Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, has had a successful career in show business, including a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the biopic Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin’s body was kidnapped in 1978 but later found buried in a Swiss cornfield.
Geraldine Chaplin has inherited the right genes for success in show business. Geraldine’s father was legendary director Charlie Chaplin (probably best known for her role with a cane as the Little Tramp) and her mother was Oona O’Neill, the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’ Neill. Geraldine Chaplin’s award-winning film credits include portraying her paternal grandmother, troubled music hall performer Hannah Chaplin, in the 1992 biopic Chaplin.
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That role earned Geraldine her third Golden Globe nomination. She also had major roles in David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago and Robert Altman’s films Nashville and A Wedding.
Born in 1944, Geraldine Chaplin was the first of Charlie Chaplin’s eight children with Oona O’Neill, his fourth and last wife. Oona was 18 when she married 53-year-old Charlie.
In 1978, three months after Charlie Chaplin’s death at the age of 88, kidnappers dug up his body and demanded $600,000 USD for his return. During the negotiations, police traced phone calls to two Eastern European mechanics, who were promptly arrested. The body was later found buried in a Swiss cornfield.
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