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Leonor Varela

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
29 December 1972, Santiago, Chile

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
She is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.Formerly engaged to Billy Zane, her co-star from the miniseries Cleopatra (1999) (TV).Beat out 35 other actresses to play the title role in Cleopatra (1999) (TV).Appeared on the cover of thirteen separate editions of the Maxim magazine, each naming a different North American city as the greatest on Earth.Daughter of famous Chilean biologist and philosopher Francisco Varela (1946-2001).After graduating from the Ecole du Passage and the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris, she was ready for the big screen.Her family fled to Costa Rica, leaving behind the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.As a child, she got to see her homeland another time when her family returned to Chile.Her stay in Chile was brief, and she soon found herself in Germany, then back in Chile, and finally in France in her late teens.She is half Chilean on her father's side and French on her mother's side.She lived in Paris from the age of 14.Has 3 siblings, Alejandra, Javier and Gabriel.Was featured as #11 in Maxim Magazine's ""Hot 100 of 2002"" supplement. (2002)

Personal Quotes / Kişisel Alıntılar
""In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.""""I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.""""I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense-the middle ground is not my forte.""""I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo. It's not this hypocritical thing where we go, ""No!"" and then it's ""Oh, yes!"" When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.""