--- name: "Oona Castilla Chaplin" canonical: "https://film.one/person/oona-chaplin" fi1m_id: "oona-chaplin" imdb_id: "nm2772105" tmdb_id: 566331 wikidata_id: "Q459348" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 June 1986" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 69 average_as: "actor" average_over: 6 updated: "2026-09-18T07:20:08.993274+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Oona Castilla Chaplin ## Identity Oona Castilla Chaplin - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oona-chaplin - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** oona-chaplin - **IMDb ID:** nm2772105 - **TMDB ID:** 566331 - **Wikidata ID:** Q459348 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oona_Chaplin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2772105/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/566331 Actor. Born 4 June 1986 in Madrid, Spain. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 June 1986, Madrid, Spain - **Active:** 2008–present - **Also known as:** Oona Chaplin - **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 6 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 58 (1), 2010s 74 (4), 2020s 58 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 67 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Mystery 3, Adventure 2, Crime 2, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2, Action 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $2,076m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oona_Chaplin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2772105/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/566331 ## Coming up - *Avatar 4* (2029-12-19), as Varang - *Avatar 5* (2031-12-17), as Varang ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Hour*](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md) (70) - **Peacock:** [*Taboo*](https://film.one/tv/taboo.md) (62) - **Disney+:** [*Avatar: Fire and Ash*](https://film.one/film/avatar-fire-and-ash.md) (58) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Oona Castilla Chaplin > Oona Castilla Chaplin has spent most of her career as the determined woman at the edge of a period drama. Handed a villain in *Avatar: Fire and Ash*, she played it with an appetite the series had never allowed and outgrew the film around her. Varang, the leader of the Ash People in *Avatar: Fire and Ash* (2025), looks at Quaritch the way nobody has looked at him in three films, and Oona Castilla Chaplin plays the look as if she has been waiting years to give it. She enjoys her cruelty and she enjoys her weapons. Under the motion capture there is a dancer: Chaplin trained in ballet, flamenco and salsa before she trained as an actor, and Varang moves like someone who knows where every limb is at every moment. We sat up. Three films in, we had stopped expecting to be interested in anyone on Pandora, and she made us. It has taken a while. Chaplin left RADA in 2007, took small television parts (*Spooks*, 2007), then found the places British drama keeps for a certain kind of woman: strong, intense, usually in period costume, usually heading for a bad end. Marnie Madden in *The Hour* (2011), Talisa Maegyr in *Game of Thrones* (2012), Zilpha Geary opposite Tom Hardy in *Taboo* (2017), with stops in *Black Mirror*, *Sherlock* and *Inside No. 9* (2014) along the way. It is respectable work and nearly all of it is supporting. Varang, under James Cameron, is the first part in years to build a film's villain around her. *The Hour* shows the limit of the earlier phase. We wrote that Marnie was given a hostess's smile and a great deal to hide behind it, and that was the whole part: the wife in the good frock while Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai did the drama. Chaplin did what could be done with it, which was to make the smile look expensive to hold. Cameron gives her the opposite, fury with nowhere to hide. She has said of Varang, "I instantly connected with her rage," and it shows on screen; there is no wink to the audience, no plea for sympathy, only a woman who likes the fight and is good at it. We scored *Fire and Ash* 58. She is the reason to go, and the film around her repeats itself for well over three hours. That is her position at the moment in a sentence: the best thing in something that does not quite deserve her. Someone should now give her a film of her own, and a running time she can fill. ## Biography Oona Castilla Chaplin is a Spanish-British actress. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 2007, and had earlier attended Gordonstoun School in Scotland. Her screen roles include Talisa Maegyr in the HBO series *Game of Thrones* (2012–2013), Zilpha Geary in the FX series *Taboo* (2017), and Varang in the film *Avatar: Fire and Ash* (2025). She is a member of the Chaplin family, the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin and cinematographer Patricio Castilla, and the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) - *Avatar: Fire and Ash* (2025), Fi1m 58, as Varang — [page](https://film.one/film/avatar-fire-and-ash.md) - *Taboo* (2017), Fi1m 62, as Zilpha Geary — [page](https://film.one/tv/taboo.md) - *Inside No. 9* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Sabrina — [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) - *Black Mirror* (2011), Fi1m 81, as Greta — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) - *The Hour* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Marnie Madden — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md) - *Quantum of Solace* (2008), Fi1m 58, as Perla de las Dunas Receptionist — [page](https://film.one/film/quantum-of-solace.md) ## Complete filmography (42) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Avatar 5* (2031), as Varang - *Avatar 4* (2029), as Varang - *Avatar: Fire and Ash* (2025), as Varang — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/avatar-fire-and-ash.md) - *Heroic Dose* (2025), as The Moon - *Treason* (2022), series, as Maddy De Costa - *Lullaby* (2022), as Rachel - *Made for Love* (2021), series, as Alice - *The Comey Rule* (2020), series, as Lisa Page - *Guardians of Life* (2020), Actor - *My Dinner with Hervé* (2018), as Katie - *Anchor and Hope* (2017), as Eva - *Taboo* (2017), series, as Zilpha Geary — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/taboo.md) - *Realive* (2016), as Naomi - *Cain's Father* (2016), series, as Mercedes - *Dancing for My Havana* (2015), as Rosa - *The Longest Ride* (2015), as Young Ruth - *The Crimson Field* (2014), series, as Kitty Trevelyan - *Purgatory* (2014), as Marta - *Aloft* (2014), as Alice - *A Quiet Night In* (2014), as Sabrina - *Inside No. 9* (2014), series, as Sabrina — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) - *Hoke* (2014), Actor - *Powder Room* (2013), as Jess - *What If* (2013), as Julianne - *Dates* (2013), series, as Mia - *The Sorrows* (2013), as Sarah - *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Greta — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) - *The Hour* (2011), series, as Marnie Madden — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md) - *Game of Thrones* (2011), series, as Talisa Stark — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/game-of-thrones.md) - *What's a Bear For?* (2011), as Rosa - *The Devil's Double* (2011), as Beauty - *Salar* (2011), as Sandra - *Sherlock* (2010), series, as Jeanette — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sherlock.md) - *Pelican Blood* (2010), as Linda - *El Gordo: A True Story* (2010), series, as Silvia - *Married Single Other* (2010), series, as Fabiana - *Imago Mortis* (2009), as Arianna - *Quantum of Solace* (2008), as Perla de las Dunas Receptionist — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/quantum-of-solace.md) - *Spooks: Code 9* (2008), series, as Kate - *Inconceivable* (2008), as Laura Chappel - *Spooks* (2002), series, as Kate — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md) - *Mapuche, brotes de la tierra*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Miércoles 7 de diciembre de 2016. En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la entrega del Tercer Premio Iberoamericano de Cinematografía, Fenix 2016](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-6decc3dfa208.jpg) Miércoles 7 de diciembre de 2016. En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la entrega del Tercer Premio Iberoamericano de Cinematografía, Fenix 2016 — Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/MX_MM_PREMIOS_FENIX_2016_-_31393534571.jpg/1280px-MX_MM_PREMIOS_FENIX_2016_-_31393534571.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-dcc4ec685d6a.png) Oona Castilla Chaplin (2012) — derivative work: Kmhkmh, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Oona_Chaplin.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Oona Chaplin HC9Q3223-1 (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-5d39185f38fc.jpg) Oona Chaplin HC9Q3223-1 (2013) — @rodwey2004, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Oona_Chaplin_2013.jpg/1280px-Oona_Chaplin_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-83b135234733.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — enoxonique (Ruben Olmedo), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Oona_Chaplin_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-c5e47409b066.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — Image via TMDB - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-70d89c583d25.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — Image via TMDB - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-ffa65cdbda42.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — Image via TMDB - ![Oona Chaplin en la SEMINCI 2016](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-af0023ca5894.jpg) Oona Chaplin en la SEMINCI 2016 — Ruben Olmedo Tomillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Oona_Chaplin_Seminci.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-c0edb194b84a.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — Image via TMDB - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-2bfaed0f52bd.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — Image via TMDB - ![Oona Castilla Chaplin](https://film.one/media/person/7544/gallery-550b310549fe.jpg) Oona Castilla Chaplin — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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