First Name
Leonor
Last Name
Varela
Date of Birth
29 December 1972
Height
66.5
Build
Slim
Eye Color
Brown - Dark
Hair Color
Brown - Dark
Place of Birth
Santiago, Chile
Star Sign
Capricorn
Ethnicity
Hispanic
Claim to Fame
Cleopatra
Nationality
Chilean
Gender
Female
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Leonor Varela Palma (born December 29, 1972) is a Chilean actress, and model. She played the character Cleopatra in the 1999 film Cleopatra. She also has actively participated in various ecological causes such as "Save Whales Again".
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Actor/Actress, Producer
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Couple Profile
Leonor Varela Palma (born December 29, 1972) is a Chilean actress, spokesperson, and model. Leonor plays the character Cleopatra on the 1999 successful film Cleopatra. She also has actively participated in various ecological causes as "Save Whales Again".
Biography
Early life
Varela was born in Santiago, Chile, the daughter of Leonor, a massage therapist, and the famous Chilean biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Francisco Varela.She has one sister Alejandra and two brothers, Javier and Gabriel. Varela`s family fled to Costa Rica in her early childhood when her homeland was overtaken by a military regime. She subsequently resided in Germany, the U.S., and France. In the early 1990s, her parents moved back to Chile, while she remained in Paris where she studied acting at the Neils Arestrup`s School, The Ecole de Passage, and Conservatoire Superieur de Paris.
Career
Varela`s first job was in 1995, playing Anette in Pony Trek, a children`s film. Filming was in Iceland and Leonor was riding horses for three months. Then, referred to a French filmmaker by her dentist, she played in Shooting Stars (1997). Varela found her popularity on the rise at home when she was cast in the Chilean soap opera Tic Tac.
After appearing in a few more television productions in the late 1990s, Varela was cast in a small role in The Man in the Iron Mask. In 1999, she played the title character in the TV movie Cleopatra. She fell in love with actor Billy Zane (Mark Antony) on the set, but they split up two years later. She has been married to philanthropist and musician Kevin Duane Taylor of Garland, Texas since April 13, 2008.
Roles in The Tailor of Panama and Texas Rangers (both in 2001) followed shortly thereafter, and as the fanged vampire princess in the action film Blade II. After that came Paraíso B and Pas Si Grave.
Varela also had a short recurring role in the Fox Television series Arrested Development as the original Marta. She was nominated for the Ariel Award in 2005 in the category of Best Actress for Innocent Voices (2004). She also had a non-recurring role in Stargate: Atlantis.
Her latest projects are Americano, Caleuche: The Call of the Sea, Casas de Cartón and Gigola where she plays feminist Laure Charpentier. She played Jordana in Goal! 2. Jordana was a journalist who had a one-night stand with Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker).
Varela is fluent in Spanish, English and French. She is also a marine life activist who is concerned with the welfare of whales.
Couple Profile Source
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Varela
University
Ecole du Passage and the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris
Full Name at Birth
Leonor Varela Palma
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Count - Awards
5
Father
Francisco Varela
Mother
Leonor Palma
Brother
Javier, Gabriel
Sister
Alejandra
Age
39
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