Chaplin family
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The Chaplin family is an English
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acting
family. There are the descendants of Hannah Chaplin
, chiefly known as the mother of Charlie Chaplin
, the Academy Award-winning English comedic actor and filmmaker. Hannah Chaplin's mother was half-Roma (Gypsy). Hannah had 3 sons but Charlie was the only son of her marriage to Charles Spencer Chaplin, an English Music Hall
entertainer who was an alcoholic and had little to do with his son. Hannah's first son Sydney
was born before her marriage and the third George Wheeler Dryden
resulted from an affair. The three sons of Hannah became actors and many of their descendents have also acted. The first three wives of Charlie Chaplin were actresses, and his fourth wife, Oona
, gave up a potential acting career when she married. Several of his children made appearances in his later films.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
/Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
acting
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....
family. There are the descendants of Hannah Chaplin
Hannah Chaplin
Hannah Chaplin was the founding matriarch of the Chaplin family of actors as the mother of Sir Charlie Chaplin....
, chiefly known as the mother of Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
, the Academy Award-winning English comedic actor and filmmaker. Hannah Chaplin's mother was half-Roma (Gypsy). Hannah had 3 sons but Charlie was the only son of her marriage to Charles Spencer Chaplin, an English Music Hall
Music hall
Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
entertainer who was an alcoholic and had little to do with his son. Hannah's first son Sydney
Sydney Chaplin
Sydney Chaplin was an English actor. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager, and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin , who was named after him.-Early life:...
was born before her marriage and the third George Wheeler Dryden
Wheeler Dryden
George Dryden WHEELER was an English actor and film director, the son of Hannah Chaplin and music hall entertainer Leo Dryden and thus the half brother of Charles and Sydney Chaplin...
resulted from an affair. The three sons of Hannah became actors and many of their descendents have also acted. The first three wives of Charlie Chaplin were actresses, and his fourth wife, Oona
Oona O'Neill
Oona, Lady Chaplin was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and writer Agnes Boulton, and the wife of British actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin....
, gave up a potential acting career when she married. Several of his children made appearances in his later films.
Family members
The members of the Chaplin family include:- Hannah ChaplinHannah ChaplinHannah Chaplin was the founding matriarch of the Chaplin family of actors as the mother of Sir Charlie Chaplin....
(1865–1928), English Music HallMusic hallMusic Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
entertainer; born Hannah Harriet Hill; 3 sons - Sydney ChaplinSydney ChaplinSydney Chaplin was an English actor. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager, and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin , who was named after him.-Early life:...
(1885-1965), son of Hannah Chaplin; born Sydney John Hill; 2 marriages, no children. - Charlie ChaplinCharlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
(1889-1977), son of Charles Spencer Chaplin Sr. (1863-1901) and Hannah Chaplin; 4 marriages, 6 sons, 5 daughters.
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- (i) Mildred HarrisMildred HarrisMildred Harris was an American film actress. Harris began her career in the film industry as a popular child actress at age eleven. At the age of fifteen, she was cast as a harem girl in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance . She appeared as a leading lady through the 1920s but her career slowed with...
(1901-1944), 1 son.-
- Norman Spencer Chaplin (1919-1919), died 3 days after birth.
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- (ii) Lita GreyLita GreyLita Grey was an American actress and the second wife of Charlie Chaplin. She was born in Hollywood, California, in 1908, to a Mexican-born mother and a father of Irish heritage and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray.-Personal life:Grey married four times...
(1908-1995), 2 sons.-
- Charles Chaplin, Jr.Charles Chaplin, Jr.Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an American actor and the son of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin was born in Beverly Hills, California. His mother was Charlie Chaplin's second wife, Mexican-American Lita Grey, and he was the elder brother of actor Sydney Chaplin...
(1925-1968), 1 marriage; 1 daughter
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- Susan Maree Chaplin
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- Laurissa Maree Chaplin Newton
- Allison Mary Chaplin Newton
- Tyler David Chaplin Newton
- Casey Jackson Chaplin Newton
- Sydney Earle Chaplin (1926-2009), 2 marriages; 1 son,
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- Stephan Chaplin, by French dancer and actor Noëlle Adam
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- Tamara Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Jr.
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- (iii) Paulette GoddardPaulette GoddardPaulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich...
(1910-1990), no children. - (iv) Oona O'NeillOona O'NeillOona, Lady Chaplin was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and writer Agnes Boulton, and the wife of British actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin....
(1925-1991), daughter of American playwright Eugene O'NeillEugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...
; 3 sons, 5 daughters.-
- Geraldine ChaplinGeraldine ChaplinGeraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
(born 1944)
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- Shane Saura Chaplin (b. 1974), by Spanish film director Carlos SauraCarlos SauraCarlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...
. - Oona Chaplin (b. 1986), by Patricio Castilla.
- Shane Saura Chaplin (b. 1974), by Spanish film director Carlos Saura
- Michael Chaplin (born 1946), married Patricia Betaudier.
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- Kathleen Chaplin (born 1975)
- Dolores Chaplin (born 1979)
- Carmen ChaplinCarmen ChaplinCarmen Chaplin is an actress, who belongs to the family of Charlie Chaplin.-Family:Carmen Chaplin is an English multicultural actress, director and writer....
- George Chaplin
- Josephine ChaplinJosephine ChaplinJosephine Hannah Chaplin is an actress and the daughter of actor/comedian/director Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O'Neill. Her siblings include Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin and Michael Chaplin. She was also half-sister to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr...
(born 1949)
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- Julien Ronet, (born 1980) by French actor Maurice RonetMaurice RonetMaurice Ronet was a French film actor, director and writer.-Biography:Maurice Ronet was born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, the only child of professional stage actors Émile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil. He made his stage debut in 1941, along side his parents, in Sacha...
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- Julien Ronet, (born 1980) by French actor Maurice Ronet
- Victoria ChaplinVictoria ChaplinVictoria Chaplin is an Anglo-American actress, the daughter of actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill....
(born 1951), married Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée.
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- Aurélia Thiérrée (born 1971)
- James ThiérréeJames ThiérréeJames Thiérrée is the writer, director and star of The Junebug Symphony, La Veillée des Abysses and Au Revoir Parapluie ....
(born 1974)
- Eugene Anthony Chaplin (born 1953), married Bernadette McCready.
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- Kiera ChaplinKiera ChaplinKiera Chaplin is a Northern Irish-born British actress and model, a granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and a great-granddaughter of Eugene O'Neill.-Biography:...
(born 1982)
- Kiera Chaplin
- Jane Cecil Chaplin (born 1957), married film producer Ilya SalkindIlya SalkindIlya Juan Salkind Dominguez , usually known as Ilya Salkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and '80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind....
.. Jane was born in Switzerland, she currently lives in Cartagena de Indias - ColombiaColombiaColombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, and she received Colombian citizenship on July 6, 2008. 2 children:
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- Orson Salkind (born 1986)
- Osceola Salkind (born 1994)
- Annette Emily Chaplin (born 1959)
- Christopher ChaplinChristopher ChaplinChristopher James Chaplin is a composer and actor who appeared in the film Total Eclipse as the character Charles Cros, as well as in other roles. However, he is best known for being the youngest son of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill...
(born 1962)
- Geraldine Chaplin
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- (i) Mildred Harris
- George Wheeler DrydenWheeler DrydenGeorge Dryden WHEELER was an English actor and film director, the son of Hannah Chaplin and music hall entertainer Leo Dryden and thus the half brother of Charles and Sydney Chaplin...
(1892-1957), son of Leo DrydenLeo DrydenGeorge Dryden Wheeler , was an English music hall 'vocal comic'. In 1892, he met Hannah Chaplin , mother of Charlie, and also a music hall performer. They had an affair, and a son, George Dryden Wheeler , leading to the breakdown of her marriage to Charles Chaplin, Sr...
and Hannah Chaplin; married ballerina Alice Chapple; 1 son.
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- Spencer DrydenSpencer DrydenSpencer Dryden was an American musician best known as the longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane. He also played with New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Dinosaurs, and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.-Early life:...
(1938-2005), musician with Jefferson AirplaneJefferson AirplaneJefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
. He has 5 grandchildren, Aaron, Lauren, Christen, Meagan, and Jessica Dryden.
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- Jeffrey Dryden (born 1966), by Jeannie Davis
- Jesse Dryden, by Sally Mann
- Jackson Dryden, by Kathy Miller
- Spencer Dryden
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