Career

In Minneapolis, Varnado worked with the local improvisation troupes ComedySportz, The Bad Mamma Jammas and several regional theater companies, before landing his first role in the Big River Productions film Full Moon Rising, playing a copy clerk.

Soon after, his role in Giraffe Films' Kids Adventures in Oz spurred him on move to New York to pursue an acting career. His first "big break" came when he landed a role in Elton John's music video "Recovering Your Soul".

Shortly after, he starred in Forensic Films' Julien Donkey-Boy with Ewen Bremner, Werner Herzog and Chloë Sevigny. He was subsequently cast in Universal's feature film End of Days (1999), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He co-starred in Eddie Murphy's space-age comic thriller, The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).

Winner of the Most Valuable Performer award in the 2001 Montreal Just For Laughs Improv Championship, and bronze medalist in the 2002 Comedy Central Laugh Riots National Stand-Up Competition, Varnado can currently be seen as Otis, an outrageous urban comic, in the independent film Hacks. Showing in the New York International Film Festival playing in Los Angeles, Hacks was an official selection for The Milan Film Festival.

Varnado is working on a superhero film with famous comic book legend Stan Lee. He has performed character voices for a new video game for Sony PlayStation 3 called Rat Race.

Varnado is a member of Chicago City Limits, New York¹s longest running comedy improv theater company for which he writes and direct as well as performing regularly as a stand up comedian. He has also been a guest on the popular podcast Keith and The Girl.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1996	Full Moon Rising	Ollie
1999	Julien Donkey-Boy	Rapper
	End of Days	Albino
2000	The Intern	Messenger
2002	Hacks	Otis
	The Adventures of Pluto Nash	Kelp
2003	A Guy Thing	Hansberry
2007	Twisted Fortune	Lil Toot
	Fat Guy Stuck in Internet (TV)	Kazaa-a-a-a
	Permanent Vacation	Stutter Boy	Completed
	The Mercy Man	Stokes	Post-production
2009	War Against the Weak	Himself
	Contact High	Blind Man	Austrian comedy
2011	Dream Job	Tito

[ Source: Wikipedia ]