Leonor Varela in Hell Ride | 2008
Clip Name: Eats Peyote
Leonor Varela in Hell Ride | 2008
Starring: Julia Jones, Larry Bishop and Leonor Varela
Directed by: Larry Bishop
About this actor
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". Varela was born in Santiago, Chile, the daughter of Leonor, a massage therapist, and a Chilean biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Francisco Varela García. She has one sister Alejandra and two brothers, Javier and Gabriel. Her father was of Spanish, Greek, and Syrian ancestry, and her mother, Leonor Palma, was of French, and Italian. 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 Niels Arestrup School, The Ecole de Passage, and Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. Varela's first acting job was in 1995, playing Anette in...
