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{{short description|British-American circus performer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Victoria Chaplin
| image = Victoria Chaplin I clowns.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Victoria Chaplin in ''[[The Clowns (film)|The Clowns]]'' (1970)
| birth_name = Victoria Agnes Chaplin
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|5|19}}
| birth_place = [[Santa Monica, California]], U.S.
| nationality = British-American
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Circus performer
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Jean-Baptiste Thierrée]]|1969}}
| children = {{hlist|[[Aurélia Thierrée|Aurélia]]|[[James Thierrée|James]]}}
| parents = {{ubl|[[Oona O'Neill]]|[[Charlie Chaplin]]}}
| family = [[Chaplin family]]
| years_active = 1966–present
| website =
}}

'''Victoria Agnes Chaplin-Thierrée''' (born May 19, 1951) is a British-American circus performer. She is a daughter of film actor and comedian [[Charlie Chaplin]] from his fourth wife, [[Oona O'Neill]], and a granddaughter of playwright [[Eugene O'Neill]].

Chaplin was born at [[Saint John's Health Center]] in [[Santa Monica]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovzYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA183|title = Chaplin: His Life and Art|isbn = 9780141979182|last1 = Robinson|first1 = David|date = 27 February 2014}}</ref> 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 [[Amazon Rainforest|Amazonian]] rainforest in his next planned film, ''The Freak'', in 1969.<ref>Robinson, p. 619</ref> However, the project was never filmed because of his declining health and because Victoria eloped with the French actor [[Jean-Baptiste Thierrée]].<ref name=Ross>[http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/01/07/080107ta_talk_ross Interview with James Thiérrée, The New Yorker, 7 January 2008]. Retrieved 10 March 2009.</ref><ref>Epstein, p. 203</ref>

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.<ref name=Ross/> Soon after their elopement, they briefly appeared as two clowns in [[Federico Fellini]]'s ''[[The Clowns (film)|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]].<ref name="rondpoint">[http://2006-2007.theatredurondpoint.fr/pdf/dp_30370.pdf Le Cirque Invisible, Theatre du Rond Point ]. Retrieved 20 June 2012.</ref> 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''.<ref name="rondpoint"/>

Chaplin and Thierrée have two children, [[Aurélia Thierrée]] (born 24 September 1971),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090121051603/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/326997 Aurélia Thierree, BFI Film & TV database]. Retrieved 10 March 2009.</ref> and [[James Thiérrée|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''.<ref>[http://www.lesmolieres.com/2006 Lauréats 2006, Les Molières], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103221257/http://www.lesmolieres.com/2006 |date=2013-11-03 }}. Retrieved 20 June 2012.</ref>

== References ==
===Inline citations===
{{Reflist}}

===Print sources===
*{{cite book|last=Epstein|first=Jerome|title=Remembering Charlie|year=1988|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|isbn=0-7475-0266-8|author-link=Jerome Epstein (director)}}
*{{cite book|last=Robinson|first=David|title=[[Chaplin: His Life and Art]]|year=1986|publisher=Paladin|location=London|isbn=0-586-08544-0|author-link=David Robinson (film critic)}}
*{{cite book|last=Smolik|first=Pierre|year=2016|title=The Freak: Chaplin's Last Film|publisher=Call Me Edouard Publishers|location=Vevey|isbn=978-2-940519-06-4}}

==External links==
*[http://cirque-invisible.compositeur.net/ Official website for ''Le Cirque Invisible'']
* {{IMDb name|0152265}}

{{Chaplin family}}

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