She was born in California in 1949 and was the sixth of eleven children born to the comic film legend. Her mother Oona O’Neill, also an actress and daughter of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, was only 18 when she married Chaplin, who was 35 years her senior.
Josephine Chaplin first appeared on the big screen at the age of three in “Spotlight” (1952) which was written and directed by her father, who also starred in the film himself. She also appeared in his “The Countess of Hong Kong” (1967), but her first major role was in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Canterbury Tales” in 1972.
She also starred opposite Kiefer Sutherland and Liv Ullmann in the film “Boy by the Sea” from 1984.
Josephine Chaplin was 74 years old.