Victoria Chaplin is an Anglo

Anglo

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-American

United States

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 actress, the daughter of actor/comedian 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...

 and Oona O'Neill Chaplin

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....

, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

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.

She was born in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

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 in 1951, the fourth of 8 children

Chaplin family

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, her eldest sister being the actress Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine 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...

. Her father left America in 1952 and the family moved to Switzerland

Switzerland

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. She was also half-sister to Sydney Chaplin, 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...

 and Norman Chaplin.

She appeared in her father's film, A Countess from Hong Kong

A Countess from Hong Kong

A Countess from Hong Kong is a 1967 British comedy film and the last film directed by Charlie Chaplin. It was one of two films Chaplin directed in which he did not play a major role , and his only color film. Chaplin's cameo marked his final screen appearance...

, and he wanted her to star as an angel in his next film called The Freak

The Freak

The Freak was an unfinished dramatic comedy from Charles Chaplin. The story revolved around a young South American girl who unexpectedly sprouts a pair of wings. She is kidnapped and taken to London, where her captors cash in by passing her off as an angel. Later she escapes, only to be arrested...

. However she met the French actor Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée and they eloped to get married. The film was not made. She and her husband created Le cirque bonjour, then Le cirque imaginaire, later Le cirque invisible, travelling contemporary circus

Contemporary circus

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es which some credit as a source of inspiration for Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil , is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy...

. Their children, Aurélia Thiérrée, (born 24 September 1971), and James Thiérrée

James Thiérrée

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, (born 2 May 1974), both performed as children with their parents and went on to have acting careers as adults.

Filmography

• A Countess from Hong Kong
  A Countess from Hong Kong
  A Countess from Hong Kong is a 1967 British comedy film and the last film directed by Charlie Chaplin. It was one of two films Chaplin directed in which he did not play a major role , and his only color film. Chaplin's cameo marked his final screen appearance...
  
  (1967) - young girl
• Le Cirque imaginaire (1989) TV series