Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
4/12/1908
Place of Birth
Carthage, Illinois, USA
Virginia Cherrill
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Virginia Cherrill (April 12, 1908 - November 14, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931). She married an English earl in the 1940s, and is also known as Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Virginia Cherrill was born on a farm in rural Carthage, Illinois, to James E. and Blanche (née Wilcox) Cherrill. She was a Chicago society girl with no thoughts of a film career when she went to Hollywood for a visit and met Charlie Chaplin when he sat next to her at a boxing mat...
Known For
Fast Workers
as Virginia
The Brat
as Angela
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
as Barbara Winterslip
City Lights
as A Blind Girl
Delicious
as Diana Van Bergh
Late Extra
as Janet Graham
Becoming Cary Grant
as Self (archive footage)
The Air Circus
as Extra (uncredited)
Girls Demand Excitement
as Joan Madison
What Price Crime
as Sandra Worthington
He Couldn't Take It
as Eleanor Rogers
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Unknown Role
The Nuisance
as Miss Rutherford
White Heat
as Lucille Cheney
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Self (archive footage)