Natalia Tena

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“It’s weird, obviously you love doing what you’re doing at the time. I do know that I literally cannot wait until all of the seasons are out and I can sit with a bottle of wine and binge watch ten hours. I’ve missed Osha actually, she’s quite a force. Her energy’s very low down, very wild. It’s aggressive. It’s maternal and kind at the same time, it’s quite fun.”

ALSO KNOWN FOR

Harry Potter Series (2007-2011)

About A Boy (2002)

Origin (2018)

The Mandalorian (2019)

Natalia Gastiain Tena is an English actress and musician, born on the 1st of November 1984 in London, England. She is best known for her portrayal as Nymphadora Tonks in the popular Harry Potter film series, and as the wildling Osha in the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones. The daughter of Spanish parents, María Tena, a secretary, and Jesús Andrew Gastiain, a carpenter, Tena’s family is of Extremaduran and Basque origin. She was raised in the United Kingdom but is also fluent in Spanish, and studied at the boarding school Bedales in Hampshire, England. Afterwards, at eighteen, Tena moved back to London and busked on the London Underground. While working with a theatre group called KneeHigh, where they were allowed to pick an instrument to play, Tena decided to learn the accordion.

Tena is the lead singer and accordionist of Molotov Jukebox. The band released their debut album Carnival Flower (2014), in Spring of 2014, featuring their single "Neon Lights". Their second studio album, Tropical Gypsy (2016), was released on 15 April, 2016 and was preceded by its lead single, "Pineapple Girl". It was promoted on the band's Tropical Gypsy Tour in April and May of 2016.

Tena made her professional debut as Ellie in About a Boy (2002), and began acting full-time in 2003. She has played lead roles in stage adaptations of Gone to Earth in 2004 and Nights at the Circus in 2006. In 2007, Tena then appeared in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix playing the character Nymphadora Tonks. Tena reprised this role in its sequels Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2 (2010 -2011). In 2011, she played a lead role in the Scottish Film You Instead and in the same year began her role as Osha in HBO's Game of Thrones. In 2014, Tena co-starred as a mentally ill woman in Channel 4’s Black Mirror Christmas episode "White Christmas", opposite fellow Thrones actor Oona Chaplin. In 2015, she starred as the lead role of Jennifer Preston in the Netflix mini-series Residue and later was cast in 2017 as Sara Morten in the CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd. In 2018, Tena then starred as the lead role of Lana Pierce on the YouTube science fiction series Origin. Her latest lead television role was in the 2021 Sky Original adventure crime series Wolfe.