Josephine Chaplin, daughter of legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin, passes away

Washington DC: Actor Josephine Chaplin, daughter of comedy legend Charlie Chaplin, has passed away at the age of 74.

According to US-based media outlet Variety, Chaplin died in Paris on July 13, according to an announcement made by his family. Born on March 28, 1949, in Santa Monica, California, Josephine Chaplin was the third of eight children born to Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill. He started his career on screen at a young age with his father’s 1952 ‘Limelight’.

He is survived by three sons; Charlie, Arthur and Julien Ronette; and her siblings Michael, Geraldine, Victoria, Jane, Annette; Eugene and Christopher reported to Variety.

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Talking about his acting career, he has acted in many films. In 1972 starred in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s award-winning film The Canterbury Tales and Richard Balducci’s L’Odor des Fauves. That same year, he starred alongside Lawrence Harvey in Menahem Golan’s 1972 drama Escape to the Sun, about a group of people attempting to escape from the Soviet Union.

Later, in 1984, she starred in the Canadian drama ‘The Bay Boy’, a film that marked the beginning of the acting career of her co-star Kiefer Sutherland. According to Variety, in 1988, she starred in the television mini-series ‘Hemingway’ as Hadley Richardson, alongside Stacey Keech as Ernest Hemingway.