Victoria Chaplin
Victoria Agnes Thierrée-Chaplin (born May 19, 1951) is a British-American circus performer. She is the daughter of film actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin from his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Chaplin was born at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, but grew up in Switzerland. As a teenager, she appeared as an extra in her father's last film, "A Countess from Hong Kong" (1966). Her father also wanted her to star in the main role of a winged girl found from the Amazonian rainforest in his next  planned film, "The Freak", in 1969. However, the project was never filmed because of his declining health and because Victoria eloped with the French actor Jean-Baptiste Thierrée. Chaplin and Thierrée had first come into contact after he read about Chaplin's aspiration of becoming a circus clown in a magazine article of her father, and asked her to form a new type of circus with him. Soon after their elopement, they briefly appeared as two clowns in Federico Fellini's "The Clowns" (1970), and the next year performed for the first time with the contemporary circus "Le Cirque Bonjour , which they had founded together, at Festival d'Avignon. In 1974, they founded a new, smaller circus Le Cirque Imaginaire", which centered only on their, and occasionally their children's, performances, and from 1990 onward have performed under the name "Le Cirque Invisible". Chaplin and Thierrée have two children, Aurélia Thierrée (born 24 September 1971), and James Thierrée (born 2 May 1974), who are performing artists. In addition to performing in "Le Cirque Invisible", Chaplin also helped in creating her children's shows, and in 2006, was awarded the Molière Award, the French national theatre prize, for designing the costumes for  her son's show, "The Junebug Symphony".