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| Name : | Leonor Varela |
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| Profession : | actress, model |
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| Date of Birth : | December 29, 1972 |
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| Place of Birth : | Santiago, Chile |
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| Height : | 5' 7" |
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| Claim to fame : | her portrayal of the titular Queen of the Nile in the lavish ABC miniseries Cleopatra. |
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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....
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