Geraldine Chaplin
Acting • Born 1944-07-31
Biography
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is an American actress. She is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill. After beginnings in dance and modeling, she turned her attention to acting, and made her English-language acting debut (and came to prominence in what would be a Golden Globe-nominated role) in her portrayal of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965). She made her Broadway acting debut in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes in 1967, and played the role of ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in Raúl Araiza's Nefertiti and Akhenaton (1973), alongside famous Egyptian actor Salah Zulfikar. Chaplin received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). She received a BAFTA nomination for her role in Welcome to L. A. (1976). She played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin in the biopic Chaplin (1992), for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination. Chaplin has appeared in a wide variety of critically recognized Spanish and French films. She starred in Les Uns et les Autres (1981), Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) and the Jacques Rivette experimental films Noroît (1976) and Love on the Ground (1984). She was the partner of director Carlos Saura for 12 years until 1979, starring in his films Ana and the Wolves (1973), Cría Cuervos (1976), Elisa, vida mía (1977), and Mamá cumple cien años (1979). She was awarded a Goya Award for her role in En la ciudad sin límites (2002), and was nominated again for The Orphanage (2007). Her contribution to Spanish cinema culminated in her being awarded the Gold Medal by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in 2006.
Filmography
179 credits
Talk to Her
Movie • 2002
Katerina Bilova
Doctor Zhivago
Movie • 1965
Tonya Gromeko
Nashville
Movie • 1975
Opal
Pasternak
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
The Age of Innocence
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Welland
Chaplin
Movie • 1992
Hannah Chaplin
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1973
Anna of Austria
A Countess from Hong Kong
Movie • 1967
Girl at Dance
The City of No Limits
Movie • 2002
Marie
Seneca
Movie • 2023
Lucia
Imago Mortis
Movie • 2009
Contessa Orsini
The Orphanage
Movie • 2007
Aurora
The Mirror Crack'd
Movie • 1980
Ella Zielinsky
The Wolfman
Movie • 2010
Maleva
Perched on a Tree
Movie • 1971
Mme Muller
The Four Musketeers
Movie • 1974
Queen Anne of Austria
Home for the Holidays
Movie • 1995
Aunt Glady
Duel of Hearts
Movie • 1992
Mrs Miller
Melissa P.
Movie • 2005
Nonna Elvira
The Totenwackers
Movie • 2007
Salgado
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 2004
Ghost of Christmas Future / Blind Beggarwoman
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
Movie • 1976
The Sure Shot (Annie Oakley)
The Return of the Musketeers
Movie • 1989
Queen Anne
The Moderns
Movie • 1988
Nathalie de Ville
White Mischief
Movie • 1987
Nina Soames
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
Movie • 1997
Mother Teresa
Bolero
Movie • 1981
Suzan / Sara Glenn
The Children
Movie • 1990
Joyce Wheater
There Be Dragons
Movie • 2011
Abileyza
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Movie • 1983
Nora Winkle
A Wedding
Movie • 1978
Rita Billingsley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie • 2004
The Abbess
Love on the Ground
Movie • 1984
Charlotte
The Monk
Movie • 2011
L’abbesse
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1996
Miss Scatcherd
Noroît
Movie • 1976
Morag
L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo
Movie • 2010
Alma
Luka
Movie • 2023
The General
Moscow in Madrid
Movie • 1965
Self
The Impossible
Movie • 2012
Old Woman
A Sweet Journey
Movie • 1980
Lucie
Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Movie • 2008
Abuela de Valére
What's a Bear For?
Movie • 2011
Josephine
Z.P.G.
Movie • 1972
Carol
Cria!
Movie • 1976
María
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Movie • 2003
Self
The Mosquito Net
Movie • 2010
María
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Movie • 2003
Self
Tell Me About Love
Movie • 2008
Amelie
Crime on a Summer Morning
Movie • 1965
Zelda van Willie
Remember My Name
Movie • 1978
Emily
The Hawaiians
Movie • 1970
Purity Hoxworth
Yankee Dudler
Movie • 1973
Kate Elder
Welcome to L.A.
Movie • 1976
Karen Hood
The Island Inside
Movie • 2009
Victoria
Innocent Bystanders
Movie • 1972
Miriam Loman
Beresina
Movie • 1999
Charlotte De
All Together
Movie • 2012
Annie Colin
Ramírez
Movie • 2008
Galerist
Peppermint Frappé
Movie • 1967
Elena
Americano
Movie • 2011
Linda
Crimetime
Movie • 1996
Thelma
Anna and the Wolves
Movie • 1973
Ana
Mama Turns 100
Movie • 1979
Ana
Winter Solstice
Movie • 2003
Gloria Blundell
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Movie • 2011
Rosa Cabarcas / Brothel madam
Elisa, My Life
Movie • 1977
Elisa Santamaría
Roseland
Movie • 1977
Marilyn
Parc
Movie • 2009
la mère de Paul Marteau
The Apostle
Movie • 2012
Dorinda (voice)
Three-60
Movie • 2013
Jean Christophe
BloodRayne
Movie • 2005
Fortune Teller
Summer of Silence
Movie • 1974
Anne Zimmler
Boxes
Movie • 2007
Mommy
Miguel and William
Movie • 2007
Owner
Blindfolded Eyes
Movie • 1978
Emilia
Wax
Movie • 2014
Producer
Stranger in the House
Movie • 1967
Angela Sawyer
Buster's Bedroom
Movie • 1991
Diana Daniels
Another Me
Movie • 2013
Mrs. Brennan
Panzer Chocolate
Movie • 2013
Frau Frida
The Widow of Montiel
Movie • 1979
Adelaida Montiel
In Memoriam
Movie • 1977
Paulina Arevalo
To Hear the Birds Singing
Movie • 1995
Catherine
Carlos
Movie • 1971
Lisa
The Corsican Brothers
Movie • 1985
Madame Savilia de Franchi
Hostias (Un amor de película)
Movie • 2012
Jean
Honeycomb
Movie • 1969
Teresa
Me and Kaminski
Movie • 2015
Therese
We'll Go to the City
Movie • 1966
Lenka Vitas
Limelight
Movie • 1952
Little Girl on Steps (uncredited)
Sand Dollars
Movie • 2015
Anne
I Killed Rasputin
Movie • 1967
Mounia Golovine
Amapola
Movie • 2014
Memé
¿... Y el prójimo?
Movie • 1974
Luisa
The Forbidden Room
Movie • 2015
Master Passion / Nursemaid / Aunt Chance
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Movie • 1965
Self
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
Movie • 1965
Self
A Monster Calls
Movie • 2016
The Head Teacher (uncredited)
Just Run!
Movie • 2001
Madre
Marguerite & Julien
Movie • 2015
La mère de Lefebvre
Valentin Valentin
Movie • 2015
Jane
Adoption
Movie • 1979
Catherine
The Faces of the Moon
Movie • 2002
Joan Turner
The House of Mirth
Movie • 1981
Lily Bart
Once and Forever
Movie • 2015
Marie Donovan
Finisterre, donde termina el mundo
Movie • 1999
Madre
Theresa: The Body of Christ
Movie • 2007
Priora
To Walk with Lions
Movie • 1999
Victoria Anrecelli
Madres de los dioses
Movie • 2016
Self
Seances
Movie • 2016
Casino Royale
Movie • 1967
Keystone Kop (uncredited)
Casting
Movie • 1983
Star
Dinotopia
Movie • 2002
Oriana
Stress Is Three
Movie • 1968
Teresa
Anchor and Hope
Movie • 2017
Germaine
The Eyes of Asia
Movie • 1997
Jane Powell
A House Without Boundaries
Movie • 1972
Lucía Alfaro
Marriage a la Mode
Movie • 1973
Marie-des-Anges
Inconceivable
Movie • 2008
Frances Church-Chappel
A Foreign Field
Movie • 1993
Beverley
The Broken Key
Movie • 2017
Tower Woman
Heidi
Movie • 2005
Rottenmeier
Dernier Soir
Movie • 1964
Self
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Movie • 2018
Iris
The Wind Blew On
Movie
Sinuous Road
Movie • 2018
Miny Barrios
Short Letter to the Long Goodbye
Movie • 1978
Judith Seldan
The Barefoot Emperor
Movie • 2020
Lady Liz
Red Land
Movie • 2018
Giulia Visantrin
Gentille Alouette
Movie • 1990
Angela Duverger
Words Upon the Window Pane
Movie • 1994
Miss McKenna
A Page of Love
Movie • 1978
Lise
Holy Beasts
Movie • 2019
Vera
Scrim
Movie • 1976
Ann
Off Season
Movie • 1992
Anarchist
I Want to Go Home
Movie • 1989
Terry Amstrong
Cousin Bette
Movie • 1998
Adeline
The Rodriguez and the Beyond
Movie • 2019
Isabel
A Century of Cinema
Movie • 1994
Self
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Movie • 1999
Elizabeth
The Garden of Delights
Movie • 1970
Invitada comunión (uncredited)
Mais où et donc Ornicar
Movie • 1979
Isabelle
The Making of Plus One
Movie • 2010
Geri - the casting director
Lines of the Hand
Movie • 2015
La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie
Movie • 1966
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
Movie • 2025
Self
Nefertiti and Akhenaten
Movie • 1973
Nefertiti
The Odyssey
Movie • 1997
Eurycleia
Dim Dam Dom
TV • 1965
Self
The Crown
TV • 2016
Wallis Simpson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mme. Savilia de Franchi
Gulliver's Travels
TV • 1996
Empress Munodi
My Cousin Rachel
TV • 1983
Contessa Rachel Sangalletti
Screen One
TV • 1989
Beverly
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self - Guest
In the Beginning
TV • 2000
Jochebed
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV • 2003
Self
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Beyond the Walls
TV • 2016
Rose
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
TV • 2017
Irma Louise Gordon
Les Aventuriers des mers du Sud
TV • 2006
Maggie
Dinotopia
TV • 2002
Oriana
Unknown Chaplin
TV • 1983
Self (archive footage)
The Odyssey
TV • 1997
Eurycleia
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Alice
The Word
TV • 1978
Naomi Dunn
Winter Solstice
TV • 2003
Gloria Blundell
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Mrs Fane
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
TV • 2004
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
self
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Glow and Darkness
TV • 2021