Leonor Varela

Leonor Varela Pilme is a Chilean actress and model. She played the title role in the 1999 television film Cleopatra, and vampire princess Nyssa Damaskinos in the 2002 film Blade II.

Varela was born in Santiago, Chile, the daughter of Leonor PilmeKeller, a massage therapist, and biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Francisco Varela Garca. She has a sister, Alejandra, and two brothers, Javier and Gabriel. Her mother was of French, Hungarian, and Syrian descent. When Varela was a child, her family fled Chile when it was overtaken by a military regime. In the early 1980s, her parents moved back to Chile while she remained in Paris where she studied acting at the Niels Arestrup School, Lcole du Passage, and Conservatoire Suprieur de Paris.

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