Josephine Chaplin, an actor and the daughter of the legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin, died at the age of 74.
Chaplin passed away on July 13 in Paris, according a statement from her family, according to Variety, a US-based news source.
Josephine Chaplin, the third of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’TNeill’s eight children, was born on March 28, 1949, in Santa Monica, California. In her father’s 1952 Limelight, she started her career as a screen actress at an early age. Her three sons Charlie, Arthur, and Julien Ronet as well as her siblings Michael, Geraldine, Victoria, Jane, Annette, Eugene, and Christopher survive her, according to Variety.
In terms of her acting career, she appeared in a variety of films. featured in Richard Balducci’s Todeur des fauves and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales in 1972.
She also appeared in Menahem Golan’s 1972 drama “Escape to the Sun,” which was about a group of people trying to escape the Soviet Union, alongside Laurence Harvey.
Later, in 1984, she starred in the Canadian drama “The Bay Boy,” which served as the launch pad for the acting career of her co-star Kiefer Sutherland. According to Variety, she played Hadley Richardson alongside Stacy Keach as Ernest Hemingway in the 1988 television miniseries “Hemingway.”
