Rafael Nuñez Penna

The screen: young Leonardo

At fifteen years old, Rafael played Leonardo Villegas at fifteen: the younger self of one of the two brothers at the center of El Cartel de los Sapos: El Origen (The Snitch Cartel: Origins), Caracol Televisión’s telling of how the Cali cartel began. The series reached the world on Netflix on July 28, 2021, and Rafael, credited as Rafael Núñez, carries the part in the opening episodes, the flashback years where the kingpin is still a boy.

It is a real credit on a real production, the kind most actors his age never get: he played the future head of the Cali cartel before the character was old enough to be one.

The work: the bodybuilding business

In Florida, Rafael built a bodybuilding business. The discipline is the through-line of the man: the training, the diet, the showing up every day whether anyone watches or not. He turned that discipline outward into work, the way he had once turned it toward a camera.

The details of the business stay his to tell. This door records what the house knows and Chad states plainly: the business is his, it is in Florida, and it is part of why this young man gets a star door instead of a paragraph.

Florida

Rafael’s American life is a South Florida life: Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, the gyms, the work, and Coral. He came to the United States from Colombia as a teenager, the same years the Netflix series was reaching its audience, and built his adult life in Broward County.

The wedding

On May 4, 2026, in Fort Lauderdale, Rafael married Coral. That marriage is how he comes to be this house’s own: Chad’s son-in-law, Toni’s too, and family in every room this site keeps.

• At fifteen
  Plays Leonardo Villegas at fifteen in El Cartel de los Sapos: El Origen.
• July 28, 2021
  The series premieres worldwide on Netflix.
• Florida years
  Builds his bodybuilding business in South Florida.
• May 4, 2026
  Marries Coral in Fort Lauderdale.

The record lives elsewhere, on purpose

This door is the man. The case that this family is fighting for him is a different thing, and it stands on its own door, kept current by this desk: the Rafael Door. Nothing about that fight is repeated here, because Rafael Nuñez Penna is not a case. He is a person with a screen credit, a business, a wife, and a life that was already his before October 2026.

Door opened November 7, 2026, on Chad’s word: “Rafa’s star door gets displayed. He has actual stuff on it.”