Santiago Cabrera (born 5 May 1978 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-born British-trained actor of Chilean ancestry who grew up in various countries, including Chile, Romania, Canada, Spain and the UK (his parents were diplomats). Unsurprisingly, he speaks several languages and his roles often involve a Fake Nationality.
These include several Latino roles, including romantic interests and terrorists/freedom fighters, but some of his more famous roles are characters of ambiguous or non-specific ethnicity (eg. Lancelot from Merlin is presumably from somewhere in Britain and is Aramis from The Musketeers supposed to ethnically be French or Spanish?)
Some of his roles include:
- Empire (ABC mini-series) as Octavius
- Shakespeare Re-Told: The Taming of the Shrew as Lucentio
- Love and Other Disaster as Paolo Sarmiento
- Heroes as Isaac Mendez
- Che as Camilo Cienfuegos
- Merlin as Lancelot
- La Vida de los Peces as Andres
- Alcatraz as Jimmy Dickens
- Dexter as Sal Price
- Anna Karenina (2013 mini series) as Vronsky
- The Musketeers as Aramis
- Transformers: The Last Knight as Santos
- What Happened to Monday as Infomercial Processor
- Big Little Lies as Joseph Bachman
- Salvation as Darius Tanz
- Star Trek: Picard as Cristóbal Rios, Emil, Emmet, Enoch, Ian, and Mister Hospitality