Josephine Chaplin yavukiye
i Santa Monica, muri Kaliforuniya, ku ya 28 Werurwe 1949, akaba umwana wa
gatatu mu bana umunani ba Charlie Chaplin n'umugore we wa kane, Oona O'Neill,
umukinnyi w'amafirime ukomoka mu Bwongereza akaba n'umukobwa w'umwanditsi
w'amakinamico, Eugene O'Neill wegukanye igihembo cyitiriwe Nobel.
Yagaragaye bwa mbere kuri camera afite imyaka itatu, muri Limelight, film yanditswe ikanayoborwa na se mu 1952. Yagaragaye kandi mu yindi filime ya se yitwa A Countess from Hong Kong, mu 1967.
Mu 1972, yakinnye muri Gicurasi muri May in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
X-rated The Canterbury Tales, no mu zindi zitandukanye zirimo Menahem Golan’s
Escape to the Sun (1972), L’odeur des fauves (1972), Daniel Petrie’s The Bay
Boy (1984), n’izindi nyinshi.
Nk’uko ikinyamakuru The
News Reporter kibitangaza ngo Josephine Chaplin yari amaze igihe kinini atuye i
Paris. Chaplin kandi yakinnye filime nyinshi zo mu rurimi rw’igifaransa, zirimo
Nuits rouges (1974) na À l'ombre d'un été (1976).
Josephine yayoboye
ibiro bya Chaplin i Paris mu izina ry’abavandimwe be imyaka myinshi. Se yapfuye
mu Kuboza 1977 afite imyaka 88.
Josephine yabanye
n’umucuruzi w’Umugereki Nikki Sistovaris kuva mu 1969 kugeza batanye mu 1977,
nyuma abana n’umukinnyi wa filime w’umufaransa Maurice Ronet kugeza apfuye mu
1983. Umugabo wundi bashakanye ni Jean-Claude Gardin, babana kuva 1989 kugeza
apfuye muri 2013.
Asize abavandimwe be 10
aribo: Geraldine, Michael, Victoria, Jane, Annette, Eugene na Christopher,
n'abahungu Charly, Julien na Arthur.