# Jose Pablo Cantillo

Jose Pablo Cantillo (born 1978 or 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ricky Verona in Crank, Miguel in Cleaner (2007), Pepe in Streets of Blood (2011), Detective Martinez in El Chicano (2018), Hector Salazar in FX's Sons of Anarchy, Caesar Martinez in AMC's The Walking Dead, Duff in Standoff, and Dave in Taken (2017).

## Early life

The son of Costa Rican parents, Roberto Cantillo and Rita Bolaños, Jose Pablo Cantillo (known as "Joey" in his high school days) grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana and attended Terre Haute South Vigo High School where he was a tennis standout for all four years, leading the Terre Haute South Braves to a State Runner-Up finish in 1996. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 2003 with a double major in marketing and finance from the Kelley School of Business.

## Career

Cantillo decided to pursue an acting career in New York City after taking some drama classes at IU. In late 2003, he moved to California.
After acting in Off-Broadway plays in New York, Cantillo has landed guest roles on popular television series since early 2000. He played a recurring role in The Walking Dead as Caesar Martinez, and roles in two of Neill Blomkamp's films, the science fiction action thriller Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015). In 2019, he played the role of Detective Martinez in the "Latino superhero movie" El Chicano.

## Personal life

In late 2003, Cantillo moved to California with his wife Kristi and their 7-year-old daughter. They live in Santa Clarita, a town that Cantillo described to an interviewer as “kind of reminds us of Terre Haute”, his hometown.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Villalobos | |
| 2005 | Shackles | Gabriel Garcia | Video |
| 2006 | The Bondage | Spider | |
| 2006 | Crank | Ricky Verona | |
| 2007 | After Sex | Marco | |
| 2007 | Disturbia | Officer Gutierrez | |
| 2007 | Cleaner | Miguel | |
| 2008 | Redbelt | Snowflake | |
| 2009 | Crank: High Voltage | Ricky Verona | |
| 2009 | Virtuality | Manny Rodriguez | TV movie |
| 2009 | Streets of Blood | Pepe | Video |
| 2012 | Talhotblond | Wilkes | TV movie |
| 2012 | Girl in Tank | - | Short |
| 2012 | American Citizen | Young Frank Ruiz | Short |
| 2013 | Elysium | Sandro | |
| 2015 | Chappie | Yankie (Amerika) | |
| 2015 | Solace | Sawyer | |
| 2015 | Man Down | 2nd Lt. Taylor | |
| 2016 | Seed | Tim | Short |
| 2017 | Zygote | Quinn | Short |
| 2018 | El Chicano | Detective Martinez | |
| 2018 | No Apologies | Irish Joe | TV movie |
| 2019 | A. I. Tales | Tim | |
| 2021 | Cherry | Drill Sgt. Deco | |
| 2021 | Copshop | Officer Peña | |
| 2022 | Ambulance | Jesus | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Jack Martinez | Episode: "Baggage" |
| 2003 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Wilberto 'Wille' Angel | Episode: "Rotten" |
| 2004 | ER | Juan Enriquez | Episode: "Intern's Guide to the Galaxy" |
| 2005 | CSI: Miami | Juan Fernandez | Episode: "One Night Stand" |
| 2005 | Medical Investigation | Rick Hain | Episode: "Survivor" |
| 2005 | Crossing Jordan | Danny Artega | Episode: "Sanctuary" |
| 2005 | Nip/Tuck | Marlon Ramirez | Episode: "KiKi" |
| 2005 | Eyes | Francisco Lopez | Episode: "Poison" |
| 2006 | Bones | Jose Vargas | Episode: "The Woman in the Garden" |
| 2006–07 | Standoff | Duff Gonzalez | Main cast |
| 2007 | The Unit | Rock | Episode: "Binary Explosion" |
| 2008 | Monk | Carlos | Episode: "Mr. Monk Is on the Run: Part 2" |
| 2008 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | I.A. Officer Galvez | Episode: "The Theory of Everything" |
| 2008 | The Shield | Amando Rios | Episode: "Genocide" & "Animal Control" |
| 2009 | The Closer | Enrique Santos | Episode: "Half Load" |
| 2009 | Lie To Me | Amadeo Valadez | Episode: "Fold Equity" |
| 2010 | Hawthorne | Manny Rodriguez | Episode: "No Excuses" |
| 2010 | Dark Blue | Raphael Garza | Episode: "Shelter of the Beast" |
| 2010 | Lone Star | Matt | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2010 | Terriers | Felipe Prado | Episode: "Agua Caliente" |
| 2010 | Sons of Anarchy | Hector Salazar | Recurring cast: Season 3 |
| 2010 | The Good Guys | Santora | Episode: "Cop Killer" |
| 2011 | Law & Order: LA | Cesar Vargas | Episode: "Zuma Canyon" |
| 2012 | The River | Manny Centeno | Episode: "Peaches" & "Doctor Emmet Cole" |
| 2012 | The Finder | Luis Obispo | Episode: "Voodoo Undo" |
| 2012–13 | The Walking Dead | Caesar Martinez | Recurring cast: Season 3, guest: Season 4 |
| 2013 | The Mentalist | Angel | Episode: "Wedding in Red" |
| 2013 | Twisted Tales | Ricardo | Episode: "Cached" |
| 2014 | Rush | – | Episode: "We Are Family" |
| 2014–15 | Constantine | Hugo Lopez | Episode: "The Saint of Last Resorts 1 & 2" |
| 2015 | Tales of Halloween | Dutch | Episode: "The Ransom of Rusty Rex" |
| 2016 | Damien | Alex | Episode: "Seven Curses" |
| 2016 | Shooter | Justin Singer | Episode: "Killing Zone" & "Danger Close" |
| 2017 | Taken | Dave | Main cast: season 1 |
| 2018 | The Last Ship | Octavio | Recurring cast: season 5 |
| 2019 | The Rookie | Franco DeSantis | Episode: "Caught Stealing" |
| 2019 | S.W.A.T. | Ricardo Fuentes | Episode: "Lion's Den" |
| 2021 | Coyote | Javi Lopez | Episode: "Sin of Origin" |
| 2021 | Magnum P.I. | Mitch Desanto | Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me" |
| 2021–22 | Mayor of Kingstown | Carlos Jiménez | Recurring cast |
| 2022 | NCIS | DEA Agent Mark Sisco | Episode: "Thick as Thieves" |