Chaplin was born at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica,[1] 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.

[2] However, the project was never filmed because of his declining health and because Victoria eloped with the French actor Jean-Baptiste Thierrée.

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.