Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944)^[1][2] is an American-born English actress whose long career has included multilingual roles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German films.

Geraldine is a daughter of Charlie Chaplin, the first of his eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and thus a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.^[3] After beginnings in dance^[1][3] and modeling,^[4] 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^[5]) as Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965).^[6]She made her Broadway acting debut in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes in 1967,^[7]and played ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in Raúl Araiza's Nefertiti and Akhenaton (Nefertiti y Aquenatos) (1973) alongside 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.