Kiera Chaplin may not be an enduring celebrity yet, but her grandparents certainly were. The 42-year-old's family tree includes icons and legends, born into Hollywood royalty as Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter. Eugene O'Neill, the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning playwright, is also her great-grandfather, but that hasn't stopped Keira from aiming to prove herself in her own right.
READ MORE: Big question everyone's asking after Kate's royal return Keira was raised in Switzerland by her parents, Eugene Chaplin and his wife, Bernadette, until their divorce in the mid-1990s. Growing up, she didn't realise how famous the Chaplin name was. She told The Garage Starlets that a dictionary made her aware of her family's success.
"I grew up in the same town in Switzerland where my grandfather lived from the time he fled the U.S. in the 1950s until the end of his life, so there was a Charlie Chaplin statue and a Charlie Chaplin park, and a bar named after him.
READ MORE: 'Craziest': How Hugh shocked Ryan on set "I remember thinking, 'OK, I know he was a famous actor, but is that our park because our names are on it? Is that our bar?'" "I remember being a young girl in school and looking in the dictionary and seeing the names' Charlie Chaplin' and 'Eugene O'Neill' and starting to realise little by little that, my God, they were both immensely important to the whole world, not just our family," she explained. The model and entrepreneur is the eldest sister of six siblings, Laura Ch.
