Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter reveals conflict with famous name

December 27, 2025 by salah

She went on to say, “It’s definitely tricky to feel undeserving of the place you’re in,” she went on to reveal that she considered changing her last name when she was graduating from the London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

But she changed her mind and focused on changing her mindset from ‘guilt to gratitude’ after ‘working really hard and knowing that whatever I do is never going to compare to what my grandfather did’.

“If all my purpose in this realm is for people to say, ‘Oh, Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter,’ and they google him and watch a movie of his, then I’m happy because he’s such a genius.”

She gets her name from not just her late grandfather but also her grandmother.

Charlie’s fourth wife was Oona O’Neill, who was the daughter of famed playwright Eugene O’Neill. She inspired Oona’s first name.

Oona Chaplin was born in Madrid, Spain to English-American actress Geraldine Chaplin and filmmaker Patricio Castilla. She has travelled the world over and then decided to spend her life in Cuba. She said, “I pretty much kind of was practicing quitting acting and I built myself a treehouse in the jungle in Cuba, and I was like, ‘I’m going to live here now, so I’m done’.”

But then the opportunity of Avatar came and she decided that she did not want to quit acting just yet.Continue reading…