Natalia Tena

United Kingdom 🎬 Actresses

Natalia Tena has one of those careers built entirely on the quality of the work — no manufactured persona, no franchise to coast on, just role after role in projects that require real craft from the people doing them. The London-born actress is perhaps best known internationally for playing Osha in Game of Thrones and Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter films, two beloved supporting characters in two of the most watched franchises in modern media history. The thing about Tena is that both of those roles feel specifically inhabited rather than simply performed — she finds the interior life of characters that exist in the margins of enormous narratives and makes you wish the stories were about them instead. Outside the franchise work, she fronts the folk band Molotov Jukebox and has built an extensive independent film career. With 4 images in her library, she remains underrepresented online relative to her actual cultural footprint.