Santiago Cabrera

**Santiago Cabrera** (born 5 May 1978) is a Venezuelan-born Chilean-British actor, most known for his roles as the character of Darius Tanz in *Salvation.* Aramis in the BBC series *The Musketeers*, and Lance

## Santiago Cabrera

### Character(s)

Darius Tanz

The middle child of a Chilean diplomat father and mother, Cabrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Santiago grew up mainly in England, but also Romania, Toronto and Madrid. His family returned to Chile when he was fifteen years old and as a captain of the football team in high school, Cabrera focused on athletics before switching gears; he headed towards acting when his high school drama teacher encouraged him to try it. During his three years of training at the Drama Centre London, Cabrera honed his acting skills in productions of *The Madras House*, *A Month in the Country*, *Napoli Milionaria*, *Britannicus*, *The Dutch Courtesan*, *The Strangeness of Others*, *Three Birds Alighting on a Field*, and played the title character in *The Last Days of Don Juan*.

## Career

Concurrent with his final year at the Centre, he made his television debut with small roles in the British television series *Battlefield Britain*, *Judge John Deed*, *Spooks* and *As If*. His first role after graduating from drama school was Montano in Shakespeare's *Othello*, at the Northampton Theatre Royal. He has also starred in the 2006 film *Love and Other Disasters* as the Argentinian Paolo Sarmiento, alongside Brittany Murphy and Matthew Rhys.

He has appeared on American television in *Empire* (where he portrays Octavius, Julius Caesar's teenage nephew, whom Caesar named as his successor before his death). Most notably, he is known for his role as Isaac Mendez in the NBC series *Heroes*. Once the character's arc ended, he narrated some episodes of the BBC's spin-off documentary series *Heroes Unmasked*. He also played Lancelot in the BBC drama series *Merlin*, as well as leading role of Aramis in BBC's *The Musketeers* from 2014-2016.

In addition to his fluency in Spanish, English, French and Italian, Cabrera is skilled in tennis, hockey and scuba diving. On the 20 January 2007 episode of the NBCUniversal late-night program *Vivo Mun2*, Cabrera discussed his semi-professional football career in London before he fully committed to acting. He also stated that C.D. Universidad Católica of Santiago is his favorite team, however, he remains a fan of Queens Park Rangers F.C. and was a mascot for the club as a child. Although he considers Santiago, Chile, his hometown, he splits his time between London and Los Angeles.

On 7 September 2008, Cabrera participated in Soccer Aid, a British charity football match in support of UNICEF. He later repeated this venture in 2014, playing once again for the Rest of the World.

After appearing in several film projects, Santiago landed the lead role of Darius Tanz in *Salvation*, which ran for two seasons. He followed this up with a lead role in Big Little Lies. In 2020, Santiago became one of the first actors to play a Latin character in Star Trek when he was cast as Captain Cristóbal Rios. The series was greenlit for at least three seasons, the first of which concluded in March 2020. The second season began pre production in February 2021 amid a delay due the COVID-19 pandemic.

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