Background
She is also granddaughter of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and great-granddaughter of author Eugene O"Neill. Kiera Victoria Chaplin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the eldest daughter of Eugene Chaplin and his wife, Bernadette. She grew up in the same town as her father, in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, until her parents" divorce in the mid-1990s.Soon after, aged sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she was signed up by the modelling agency NEXT Model Management.