Carmen Chaplin (born ) is an English and Irish actress and

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. Carmen is the daughter of Michael Chaplin, granddaughter of

Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered o ...

, and great-granddaughter of American playwright

Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of Realism (theatre), realism, earlier associated with ...

. Her mother is the British-Irish painter Patricia Betaudier, daughter of Trinidadian artist Patrick Betaudier.

Background

Chaplin was born in

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, to actor Michael Chaplin, who is of English and Irish heritage, and his second wife, Patricia Betaudier, daughter of the interracial Irish and Trinidadian couple, and was raised in

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and

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.Frank Heer
''Carmen Chaplin, wie lebt es sich als Enkelin einer Ikone?
Annabelle, 2016-6-28 (interview, German) She made her film debut in

Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Venice International Film ...

' '' Until the End of the World'' (1991), and has since appeared in several films, such as '' My Favourite Season'' (1993), '' The Serpent's Kiss'' (1997), and the American action comedy '' All About the Benjamins'' (2002). She has directed one short film, ''Tryst in Paname'', starring her real-life sister Dolores Chaplin and Bambou Gainsbourg.

Filmography

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* Living people Actresses from London English film actresses Irish film directors Carmen English people of American descent English people of Trinidad and Tobago descent English people of Irish descent English people of Bermudian descent Irish people of American descent Irish people of English descent Irish people of Bermudian descent Irish people of Trinidad and Tobago descent English expatriates in Spain English expatriates in France Irish expatriates in Spain Irish expatriates in France 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-film-actor-stub