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Oona Chaplin in 2016. Photo by Ruben Olmedo Tomillo. .

Top 10 Fun Facts about Oona Chaplin

Oona Castilla Chaplin is a Spanish-Swiss actress. Her 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. Her family has a rich history of being in the film industry.

She is the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin, granddaughter of English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin, and great-granddaughter of American playwright Eugene O’Neill. She was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O’Neill, Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and final wife. Lets go ahead and look at the top 10 fun facts about Oona Chaplin.

1. She comes from a family with a rich film history

Oona Chaplin at International Week at Cine de Valladolid, 2016. Photo by Ruben Olmedo.

Oona Castilla Chaplin was born on June 4, 1986, in Madrid. Her father, Patricio Castilla, is a cinematographer. He is of Chilean–Romanian descent. Her mother, Geraldine Chaplin, is an actor and the daughter of famed English actor Charlie Chaplin. Oona Chaplin is the great-granddaughter of ‘Academy Award’-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill.

2. She started acting in 2007

In 2007, Oona Chaplin made her debut on screen, when she was cast as ‘Kate’ in an episode of the TV series ‘Spooks.’ In 2008, she reprised the same character in the series ‘Spooks: Code 9.’ In 2008, she performed as ‘Laura Chappel’ in the satirical movie ‘Inconceivable.’ The movie also featured her mother.

3. Oona studied drama in school

When Chaplin was 15, she began studying at Gordonstoun School in Scotland on a drama scholarship. She 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. After leaving Gordonstoun, she was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she graduated in 2007.

4. She was one of the actors in game of thrones

Oona Chaplin actor in Game of Thrones. Photo by @rodwey2004. .

Oona Chaplin is no stranger to cult hits. Playing prissy, spoilt Marnie in acclaimed BBC drama The Hour and Robb Stark’s love interest Talisa in the criminally addictive Game Of Thrones, Chaplin is one British actress whose star is on the rise.

As the beautiful healer Talisa on “Game of Thrones,” Oona Chaplin is all fire to Robb Stark’s ice. She’s certainly melted his heart, so much that the would-be king broke an important engagement promise to marry Talisa instead.

5. She’s an accomplished flamenco and salsa dancer

Chaplin took ballet, salsa, and flamenco dance lessons since she could walk. Some of that may have been inherited from her grandfather. “He was an incredible dancer and I can move,” she said. But it also comes from spending time with her father’s side of the family in Cuba.

Now, Chaplin can often be found heating up dance floors in London. “There’s an amazing salsa night at the Colosseum nightclub,” she told The Telegraph. “I’ll be mainly found in the Cuban salsa room, which is always really hot but the people there know how to dance. I’ll be on my feet until I’m kicked out at 4 AM.”

6. She’s besties with her “Game of Thrones” co-star Natalia Tena, who plays Osha

Oona Chaplin showing off a very beautiful smile in 2016. Photo by Ruben Olmedo Tomillo. .

Not all of the “Game of Thrones” cast works together, since they film in several different countries, but one person Chaplin has gotten close to is Natalia Tena, who plays Osha the Wildling. Her Twitter pics are full of the redhead, who you may also remember as Nymphadora Tonks in the “Harry Potter” movies.

7. She was almost a Bond girl

Charlie Chaplin Oona and Josephine being greeted by delegates. Photo by Gunnar Westerlind. .

Chaplin tried out for the role of Bond Girl Strawberry Fields in “Quantum of Solace,” but her good friend Gemma Arterton got it instead. For the movie, Chaplin was a “gloried extra. My minute and a half of glory … I brought in a beer … and then I ran away. It was a fun five days.”

While the Bond thing didn’t work out, Chaplin didn’t have to wait long for her break. Just a couple years later, in 2011, she landed the part of Marnie, the wife of Hector (Dominic West) in the acclaimed British drama “The Hour.”

8. She’s the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin is named for her grandmother, Oona, the daughter of the great, Pulitzer and Nobel-winning playwright O’Neill (“Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Iceman Cometh”). The elder Oona defied her father and turned down author J.D. Salinger to marry the iconic movie star, who was 36 years her senior.

The couple had eight children, including the younger Oona’s mother, Geraldine. Sadly, Chaplin never met her famous grandfather, who died almost a decade before she was born.

9. She speaks three languages

Since her mother, Geraldine, was an actress and her father, Patricio Castilla, a cinematographer, Chaplin spent much of her early life on sets and visiting family in Spain, Switzerland, Cuba, Scotland, Chile, and England. Thanks to that globe-trotting childhood, she can speak Spanish, French, and English fluently.

10. She has done plays along her mother

Oona O’Neill Chaplin and Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood, 1944. Photo by Unknown Author.

Since graduating from RADA, Chaplin has acted in mainly British and Spanish short and feature films. She has played alongside her mother in the feature films Inconceivable, ¿Para qué sirve un oso?, Imago Mortis and Anchor and Hope. She has also had supporting roles in British and American television.

She appeared 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).

Chaplin Oona is clearly a very multifaceted and talented individual who has let her star shine bright.