Oona Chaplin

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“I think women’s characters have suffered in the history of all genres. We’re either whores or virgins. the great thing about this series is that all the characters feel real and three-dimensional. No room for stereotypes in this game. in season two we’re introduced to some really solid females. My character is unafraid and clever, with a big heart and bigger balls.”

ALSO KNOWN FOR

Taboo (2017)

The Longest Ride (2015)

Black Mirror (2014)

What If… (2013)

Oona Castilla Chaplin is a Spanish-British actress, born on the 4th of June 1986 in Madrid, Spain. A member of the Chaplin family, she is the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin, granddaughter of English filmmaker and famed actor Charlie Chaplin, and great-granddaughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Her father is a Chilean cinematographer named Patricio Castilla. Oona was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O'Neill, Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and final wife. Internationally, Oona is known for her roles such as Talisa Maegyr in the HBO hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, Kitty Trevelyan in the BBC One drama series The Crimson Field, and Zilpha Geary in the BBC One drama Taboo, opposite Tom Hardy.

When Chaplin was fifteen, she began studying at Gordonstoun School in Scotland on a drama scholarship. She appeared in several school plays, and toured the United Kingdom in an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, as well as impersonate her grandfather Charlie Chaplin in the role of Bottom in an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After leaving Gordonstoun, Oona was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she graduated in 2007. Since graduating from RADA, she has acted in mainly British and Spanish short and feature films.

Chaplin has played alongside her mother in the feature films Inconceivable (2008), Imago Mortis (2009), ¿Para qué sirve un oso? (2011) and Anchor and Hope (2017). She has also had supporting roles in British and American television, appearing as a Brazilian cage dancer in ITV's Married Single Other (2010); as Marnie Madden, the wife of main character Hector Madden, in the BBC period drama The Hour (2011–2012); as John Watson's girlfriend in an episode of BBC's Sherlock (2012); and as Talisa Maegyr in HBO's Game of Thrones (2012–2013). After appearing in the Christmas episode of the popular British anthology series Black Mirror in 2014, Oona then played Kitty Trevelyan, a lead character, in the BBC drama The Crimson Field (2014), and Ira Levinson's wife, Ruth Levinson, in The Longest Ride (2015). She then starred as Zilpha Geary in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX. Chaplin later joined the cast of James Cameron's Avatar sequels in June 2017. Her character, Varang, is described as "a strong and vibrant central character who spans the entire saga of the sequels".