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name: "Matias Varela"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 June 1980"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T18:49:15.035883+00:00"
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# Matias Varela

Actor. Born 23 June 1980 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 June 1980, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
- **Also known as:** Mathias Padin, Matias Padin, Matias Padin Varela, Louis Matias Karl Padin Varela, 馬提亞斯·維雷拉, ماتیاس واره‌لا
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Varela, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6006145, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655782/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125739

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Narcos*](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md) (76)

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## Biography

Matias Varela is a Swedish actor. Born Louis Matias Karl Padin Varela on 23 June 1980 in Stockholm, he is of Galician Spanish descent.

He made his screen debut in the Swedish soap opera *Nya tider* (2000–2001). After a decade away from acting, during which he worked in construction, Varela returned with the role of Jorge Salinas Barrio in the *Easy Money* (*Snabba Cash*) film trilogy (2010–2013), receiving Guldbagge nominations for the second and third films.

Internationally, he is known for playing Jorge Salcedo in season three of the Netflix series *Narcos* (2017). Other credits include *The Borgias* (2013), *Point Break* (2015), *Assassin's Creed* (2016), *438 Days* (2019), *Raised by Wolves* (2020) and *Hierro* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, sv.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Narcos* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Jorge Salcedo — [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mirror* (2026), as Kalle
- *The Dance Club* (2025), as Markus
- *Stockholm Bloodbath* (2024), as Cardinal
- *Raised by Wolves* (2020), series, as Lucius
- *438 Days* (2019), as Johan Persson
- *Blinded* (2019), series, as Peder Rooth
- *Heavy* (2019), as Rodrigo
- *Hierro* (2019), series, as Gaspar Cabrera
- *Assassin's Creed* (2016), as Emir
- *Point Break* (2015), as Grommet
- *Narcos* (2015), series, as Jorge Salcedo — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)
- *The Fat and the Angry* (2014), as Nicola
- *Easy Money III: Life Deluxe* (2013), as Jorge
- *The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder* (2012), Acting
- *Player* (2012), as Guy with cigarette
- *Easy Money: Hard to Kill* (2012), as Jorge
- *Arne Dahl: The Europe Blues* (2012), as Jorge Chavez
- *Arne Dahl: Many Waters* (2012), as Jorge Chavez
- *Once Upon a Time in Phuket* (2012), as Jean Luc
- *Arne Dahl: To the Top of the Mountain* (2012), as Jorge Chavez
- *Arne Dahl: Bad Blood* (2012), as Jorge Chavez
- *The Borgias* (2011), series, as King Ferdinand II of Naples
- *Easy Money* (2010), as Jorge
- *Paltalk* (2008), as Erik
- *Stockholm Boogie* (2005), as Sofo
- *Storm* (2005), as Knugen
- *Miss Sweden* (2004), as Hector
- *Nya tider* (1999), series, as Mischa Santos

## Gallery

- ![Left to right: Matias Varela, Lars Jacob & Gustaf SkarsgårdPlace: Subway in motion, Stockholm, Sweden (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/971300/gallery-12522fe1b59b.jpg) Left to right: Matias Varela, Lars Jacob & Gustaf SkarsgårdPlace: Subway in motion, Stockholm, Sweden (2013) — Fred Kallaste for CabarEng, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Gustaf_Skarsg%C3%A5rd_group_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Matias Varela](https://film.one/media/person/971300/gallery-966ccfd0a41f.jpg) Matias Varela — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Matias_Varela.jpg/1280px-Matias_Varela.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Matias Varela](https://film.one/media/person/971300/gallery-ab1372dc976f.jpg) Matias Varela — Image via TMDB
- ![Matias Varela](https://film.one/media/person/971300/gallery-2669ac0c1d13.jpg) Matias Varela — Image via TMDB
- ![Matias Varela](https://film.one/media/person/971300/gallery-c88f2e0fcdd0.jpg) Matias Varela — Image via TMDB
- ![Matias Varela](https://film.one/media/person/971300/gallery-ebb0f776c7ba.jpg) Matias Varela — Image via TMDB

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