1. Oona Chaplin's roles include Talisa Maegyr in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, Kitty Trevelyan in the BBC drama The Crimson Field, and Zilpha Geary in the series Taboo.
15 Facts About Oona Chaplin
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Oona Chaplin has a half-brother named Shane from her mother's previous relationship with film director Carlos Saura.
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Oona Chaplin's paternal grandmother, Hilda Valderrama, was a Mapuche human rights lawyer.
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Oona Chaplin was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O'Neill, Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final wife.
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Oona Chaplin spent her childhood mostly in Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Cuba.
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Oona Chaplin travelled often because of her mother's film career.
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Oona Chaplin started dancing ballet, salsa and flamenco at an early age.
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When Oona Chaplin was 15, she began studying at Gordonstoun School in Scotland on a drama scholarship.
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Oona Chaplin appeared in several school plays; toured the United Kingdom in an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet; and impersonated her grandfather in the role of Bottom in an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Since graduating from RADA, Oona Chaplin has acted in mainly British and Spanish short and feature films.
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Oona Chaplin has had supporting roles in British and American television.
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Oona Chaplin appeared as a Brazilian cage dancer in ITV's Married Single Other ; as Marnie Madden, the wife of main character Hector Madden, in the BBC period drama The Hour ; as John Watson's girlfriend in "A Scandal in Belgravia", an episodeof BBC's Sherlock ; and as Talisa Maegyr in HBO's Game of Thrones.
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Oona Chaplin plays Kitty Trevelyan, a lead character, in the BBC drama The Crimson Field, and Ira Levinson's wife Ruth Levinson in The Longest Ride.
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Oona Chaplin joined the cast of James Cameron's Avatar film series in June 2017.
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Oona Chaplin is a trustee of The Boa Foundation, an international organization that works with indigenous communities to regenerate degraded ecosystems and protect biodiversity.