Matias Varela

Birth Name: Louis Matias Karl Padin Varela

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Birth: 23 June, 1980

Ethnicity: Spanish

Matias Varela is a Swedish actor. His parents are Spanish, from Cambados, Galicia. He speaks Swedish, Galician, Spanish, and English. He has also been credited as Louis Matias Padin Varela.

He has stated (here and here):

Being an immigrant in northern Europe is a complicated thing. As a child I did not consider myself Swedish nor they did consider me Swedish, they called me ‘black head’… I do not consider myself Swedish or Spanish, I consider myself from Cambados and from the south of Stockholm, neither more nor less. I am a citizen of the world and I always will be.

4 Responses

  1. andrew says:

    His parents are from Cambados, Galicia, Spain.

    https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/arousa/cambados/2017/07/30/fiesta-celebramos-duro/0003_201707A30C5993.htm

    He has also stated:

    “I do not consider myself Swedish or Spanish, I consider myself from Cambados and from the south of Stockholm, neither more nor less. I am a citizen of the world and I alwais will be”

    He speaks Swedish, Galician, Spanish and English

  2. andrew says:

    he has stated: (https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/28/tentaciones/1503912632_081689.html)

    “Being an immigrant in northern Europe is a complicated thing. As a child I did not consider myself Swedish nor they did consider me Swedish, they called me ‘black head’ “

  3. follers says:

    Ethnic, is there a picture, please?

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