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Leonor Varela

  • Birthplace: Chile
  • Birthday: December 9, 1972

A sultry, dark-haired beauty, Leonor Varela was a virtual unknown in the USA when she was tapped for the lead in the lavish ABC miniseries "Cleopatra" (1999). The Chilean-born actress had a peripatetic childhood; her parents fled the military regime in her native country when she was a baby and settled first in Costa Rica, before moving to Germany, the USA (Colorado) and France. Varela opted to remain in Paris to pursue an education when her parents returned to Santiago in the early 1990s. Her dentist recommended her to a French filmm…more

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  • 2005

    Starred in Luis Mandoki's "Voces inocentes/Innocent Voices" set in El Salvador during the years of civil war in the '80s

  • 2002

    Cast oppposite Wesley Snipes in "Blade II"

  • 2001

    Cast in the revisionist Western "Texas Rangers" (filmed in 1999)

  • 2000

    Co-starred in "The Tailor of Panama"

  • 2000

    Was featured in the PAX-TV biblical drama "Jeremiah"

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