Orson Chaplin, grandson of the legendary actor Charlie Chaplin, and son to Producer Ilya Salkind (Superman) was born to Jane Chaplin in London, England, in 1986. Orson traveled internationally with his mom up until the age of seven when he acquired his green card, putting an end to his 6 month trips between Orlando, Florida and Switzerland, where he and his mom would spend half a year with the Chaplin clan, consisting of all his uncles, aunts, and cousins. He began acting as a child in elementary school. His first role was in his schools stage adaption of Amistad. His parents divorced when he was twelve years old and Orson moved with his father to Los Angeles where his academic theatre performances continued at Hollywood high. In 2009, Orson wrote, composed, produced, and performed the vocals on his debut rap album "Oz and Effect" under his Music Producer Alias "Ozzy Beats"the album was released on all music streaming services. In 2010 he returned to acting in independent film. During this time he teamed up with fellow underground rapper (and close friend) "Geek". Together they formed the duo Radioactive, releasing in 2011 their debut album "RadioActive First edition" which is also available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and many other online retailers. In 2011, Orson began dedicating himself strictly to acting, enrolling at the "Art of Acting Studio" in Hollywood, where he trained for a year. He has since appeared in many television productions, including Ray Donovan, Lucifer, and American Horror Story. He has also worked heavily in independent features, including Nightmare Cinema, and Fifth Street. Orson also continues to produce music as Producer Ozzy Beats for fellow artist Geek.
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His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was orphaned at 15 after his father's death in 1930 and became the ward of Dr. Maurice Bernstein of Chicago. In 1931, he graduated from the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois. He turned down college offers for a sketching tour of Ireland. He tried unsuccessfully to enter the London and Broadway stages, traveling some more in Morocco and Spain. where he fought in the bullring Recommendations by Thornton Wilder and Alexander Woollcott got him into Katharine Cornell's road company, with which he made his New York debut as Tybalt in 1934. The same year, he married, directed his first short, and appeared on radio for the first time. He began working with John Houseman and formed the Mercury Theatre with him in 1937. In 1938, they produced "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", famous for its broadcast version of "The War of the Worlds" (intended as a Halloween prank). His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO $150,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made. Many of his subsequent films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956, he directed Touch of Evil (1958); it failed in the United States but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984, the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award. His reputation as a filmmaker steadily climbed thereafter.
Ortal Ben-Shoshan is an actress, known for Hashoter Hatov (2015), Fullmoon (2017) and Anthrax (2017).