Victoria Chaplin
She is a daughter of film actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin from his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Her father also wanted her to star in the main role of a winged girl found from the Amazonian rainforest in his next planned film, The Freak, in 1969. However, the project was never filmed because of his declining health and because Victoria eloped with the French actor Jean-Baptiste Thierrée.
Victoria Chaplin

Federico Fellini · Italian film I clowns by Federico Fellini (1970) · Public domain
- Name
- Victoria Chaplin
- Birth Name
- Victoria Agnes Chaplin
- Born
- 19 May 1951
- Birthplace
- Santa Monica, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Circus performer
- Nationality
- United States and United Kingdom.
- Languages
- English.
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She is a daughter of film actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin from his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Her father also wanted her to star in the main role of a winged girl found from the Amazonian rainforest in his next planned film, The Freak, in 1969. However, the project was never filmed because of his declining health and because Victoria eloped with the French actor Jean-Baptiste Thierrée.
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Chaplin and Thierrée had first come into contact after he read about Chaplin's aspiration of becoming a circus clown in a magazine article of her father, and asked her to form a new type of circus with him. Soon after their elopement, they briefly appeared as two clowns in Federico Fellini's The Clowns (1970), and the next year performed for the first time with the contemporary circus Le Cirque Bonjour, which they had founded together, at Festival d'Avignon. In 1974, they founded a new, smaller circus Le Cirque Imaginaire, which centered only on their, and occasionally their children's, performances, and from 1990 onward have performed under the name Le Cirque Invisible. Chaplin and Thierrée have two children, Aurélia Thierrée (born 24 September 1971), and James Thierrée (born 2 May 1974), who are performing artists. In addition to performing in Le Cirque Invisible, Chaplin also helped in creating her children's shows, and in 2006, was awarded the Molière Award, the French national theatre prize, for designing the costumes for her son's show, The Junebug Symphony.
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• Name — Victoria Chaplin • Birth Name — Victoria Agnes Chaplin • Born — 19 May 1951 • Birthplace — Santa Monica, California, U.S. • Occupation — Circus performer • Children — * Aurélia • James • Parents — * Oona O'Neill • Charlie Chaplin • Family — Chaplin family • Years Active — 1966–present
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Her recorded language was English. She was the child of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill. One child is recorded: James Thiérrée.
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- 1.Robinson, David. Chaplin: His Life and Art. 27 February 2014. 9780141979182.
- 2.Robinson, p. 619
- 3.Interview with James Thiérrée, The New Yorker, 7 January 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
- 4.Epstein, p. 203
- 5.Le Cirque Invisible, Theatre du Rond Point . Retrieved 20 June 2012.
- 6.Aurélia Thierree, BFI Film & TV database. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
- 7.Lauréats 2006, Les Molières, . Retrieved 20 June 2012.
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