Oona Chaplin

Oona Castilla Chaplin is a British-Spanish actress. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and the great-granddaughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

Oona Chaplin, named after her maternal grandmother, Oona O'Neill, is the daughter of British-American actress Geraldine Chaplin and Chilean cinematographer Patricio Castilla. Born in Madrid, she spent her childhood mostly in Spain, Switzerland and Cuba, but also traveled often because of her mother's film career. She started dancing ballet, salsa and flamenco at an early age.

When Chaplin was 15, she began studying at Gordonstoun in Scotland on a drama scholarship. During her time there, she appeared in several school plays, touring the United Kingdom in an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" and impersonating her grandfather in the role of Bottom in an adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After leaving Gordonstoun, she was accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 2007.

Since graduating from RADA, Chaplin has acted in mainly British and Spanish short and feature films. She has played alongside her mother in three feature films: "Inconceivable," "¿Para qué sirve un oso?" and "Imago Mortis." Chaplin has also had several supporting roles in British and American television. In 2010, she appeared as a Brazilian cage dancer in ITV's "Married Single Other," followed by roles as the wife of one of the main characters, Hector Madden, in the BBC period drama "The Hour," as Dr. John Watson's girlfriend in an episode of BBC's "Sherlock" and as Talisa Maegyr in HBO's "Game of Thrones."

She played Kitty Trevelyan, a lead character, in the BBC Drama "The Crimson Field," which aired in 2014.