Sad news announced this Friday, July 21, 2023 by his family: Josephine Chaplin, the sixth daughter of the eleven children of legendary actor Charlie Chaplin, died on July 13 at the age of 74, in Paris. The causes of his death have not been revealed. Born in the beautiful resort town of Santa Monica, California on March 28, 1949, Josephine Hannah Chaplin, by her full name, spent a good part of his life in France. And the public also knew her very well in the 1980s, since this American actress took part in Big heads by Philippe Bouvard on RTL, alongside the academician Jean Dutour, the humorist Sim or the navigator Olivier de Kersauzon.
Died in 1977 at the age of 88, his illustrious father, Charlie Chaplin was married four times and therefore had eleven children, born between 1919 and 1962. Among them, Josephine, whom the British actor had with his last wife, Oona O’Neill, daughter of playwright and Nobel Prize winner Eugene O’Neill. Their little Josephine was born six years after her parents fled to the United States.
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“We feel like we’ve done everything we can…”
All her life, she has invested herself in transmitting the cultural heritage left by the silent film star. The Sun recalls in particular that she had sponsored a statue of her father in Waterville, Ireland, where her famous family often spent their holidays. “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.
And Josephine Chaplin had followed in her father’s footsteps by also becoming an actress. It is also in one of his films, The limelight in 1952, that she had taken her first steps in the cinema at the age of three. In 1967, she appeared in another opening scene of her famous father’s works in The Countess of Hong Kong and then continued with several films like The Canterbury Tales by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1972, Red Nights by Georges Franju in 1974 or in the Jack the Ripper by Jesus Franco in 1979. She has also made numerous television appearances. married three times, in particular to the French actor and director Maurice Ronet and archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin, Josephine Chaplin had three sons: Charles, by her first husband Nikolas Sistovaris, Julien, born in 1980, and Arthur.
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