Oona Chaplin

Oona Chaplin is an actress from Madrid who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and graduated in 2007. She grew up in Spain, Britain, Switzerland and Cuba, moving often because of her mother Geraldine Chaplin's film career, and she studied dance before taking up drama at a school in Scotland. Her first screen work was largely in British and Spanish shorts and features, among them Anchor and Hope (2017), in which she appeared with her mother. On television she played Marnie Madden in The Hour, John Watson's girlfriend in an episode of Sherlock, and Talisa Maegyr in Game of Thrones, then took the lead as Kitty Trevelyan in The Crimson Field and starred as Zilpha Geary in Taboo. She was Ruth Levinson in The Longest Ride (2015) and played Varang in Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025).