Dance and modeling At 17 years of age, Chaplin decided to forgo college to pursue dance instead,
Early acting, 1965–1969 When her dream of becoming a ballet dancer ended, Chaplin followed her father into what was to become a prolific acting career. for which she received a
Golden Globe Award nomination in the category, "Most Promising Female Newcomer". In an interview to publicize the film, she explained, "Because of my name, the right doors opened." in
Doctor Zhivago (1965) In 1967, she made her
Broadway debut in
Lillian Hellman's
The Little Foxes. Her performance was praised by
Clive Barnes in a
New York Times review, where he noted that Chaplin "acts with spirit and force... with a magnificently raw-voiced sincerity" giving a performance of "surprising power". She also started what would become a major collaboration that year, starring in Spanish film director
Carlos Saura's psychological thriller
Peppermint Frappé (1967) and playing two women in the film, Ana and Elena.
The Hawaiians through Cría Cuervos, 1970–1979 Chaplin starred alongside
Charlton Heston in the American historical film
The Hawaiians (1970). Chaplin then appeared in
The Three Musketeers (1973), and
Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973), directed by
Raúl Araiza in which she played the role of
ancient Egyptian queen
Nefertiti alongside Egyptian movie star
Salah Zulfikar, as well as the sequel,
The Four Musketeers (1974). Chaplin was cast as the obnoxious
BBC reporter Opal in
Robert Altman's
Nashville (1975), for which she received her second
Golden Globe nomination, for
Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in the Altman films ''
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), and then A Wedding (1978), doing Roseland (1977) in between. Chaplin later occasionally co-wrote scripts for and starred in several later Saura films—for these, receiving her greatest critical success such as Ana and the Wolves (1973), Cría Cuervos (1976), Elisa, vida mía (1977), and Mamá cumple cien años (1979). Cría Cuervos'' won the Special Jury Prize Award at the
1976 Cannes Film Festival. Critic
Vincent Canby praised Chaplin's "superb" performance. in
Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973) Chaplin starred in several films produced by Altman and directed by
Alan Rudolph, with a
BAFTA-nominated role in
Welcome to L.A. (1976), in which she played a housewife addicted to cab rides. She received critical acclaim for her role in
Remember My Name (1978), in which she played
Anthony Perkins' murderous estranged wife. In an interview with
The New York Times in 1977, Chaplin cited that her career was going more successfully in Europe than in the United States. She complained that "I only seem to work with Altman here ... I don't have any offers in this country, none. Not even an interesting script to read. The only person who ever asks me is Altman—and
James Ivory." Other notable Spanish films she collaborated with and appeared in
Pedro Almodóvar's
Talk to Her (2002), and
Juan Antonio Bayona's
The Orphanage (2007), for which she received a second
Goya Award nomination. She also starred in the Catalan drama,
The Mosquito Net (2010), for which she was awarded the
Crystal Globe. In 2006 Chaplin was awarded the gold medal by the
Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España—the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences—for her contribution to
Spanish cinema. Chaplin appeared in
The Wolfman, in 2010. In
Americano, she appeared with
Salma Hayek, and featured with
Jane Fonda in
All Together (both 2011). She reunited with
Juan Antonio Bayona for the films
The Impossible (2012),
A Monster Calls (2016), and
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Chaplin received the Best Actress Award at the Havana Film Festival for her role in the Dominican Republic film
Sand Dollars (2014). In 2018, she starred in
Red Land (Rosso Istria), an Italian movie by Maximiliano Hernando Bruno based on
Norma Cossetto and the
foibe massacres. In 2022, she appeared in the music video for the song "Pure", by Swiss artist
Gjon's Tears. ==Personal life==