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Where did Oona Chaplin go to college and high school? Did Oona Chaplin go to film school?

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Oona Castilla Chaplin was born in Madrid, Spain on June 4, 1986 (age 36 years). She is a Spanish-Swiss actress. Oona is mostly noted for her role as Talisa Maegyr in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, Kitty Trevelyan in the BBC drama The Crimson Field, and Zilpha Geary in Taboo.

 

Where did Oona Chaplin go to college and high school? Did Oona Chaplin go to film school?

Oona Chaplin comes from a great line of actors and filmmakers, she is a member of the Chaplin family and is the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin, granddaughter of English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin, and great-granddaughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O’Neill. She was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O’Neill, Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and final wife.

Oona Chaplin spent her childhood mostly in Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Cuba, but traveled often because of her mother’s film career. She often kept herself busy with something and started learning dancing ballet, salsa, and flamenco at an early age.

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At the age of 15, Oona began studying at Gordonstoun School in Scotland on a drama scholarship where 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.

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After leaving Gordonstoun, she was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she graduated in 2007.

Since graduating from RADA, Chaplin has acted in mainly British and Spanish short and feature films.