Oona Chaplin Oona Chaplin Oona Castilla Chaplin (born 4 June 1986) is a Spanish-British actress. Her roles include Talisa Maegyr in the HBO TV series "Game of Thrones", "The Crimson Field" and the series "Taboo". A member of the Chaplin family, she is the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin, the granddaughter of English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin, and the great-granddaughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill. She was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O'Neill, Charlie's wife. Oona Chaplin was born in Madrid to Anglo-American actress Geraldine Chaplin and Chilean-Romanian cinematographer Patricio Castilla. Her paternal grandmother is Mapuche. She was named after
Charlie Chaplin unpopular, however, and generated controversy. Chaplin concluded the film with a five-minute speech in which he abandoned his barber character, looked directly into the camera, and pleaded against war and fascism. Charles J. Maland has identified this overt preaching as triggering a decline in Chaplin's popularity, and writes, "Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from [his] star image". "The Great Dictator" received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. In the mid-1940s, Chaplin was involved in a series of trials that occupied most of his time