Santiago Cabrera (born 5 May 1978) is a Chilean actor who has worked mainly in the UK and United States. Cabrera is best known for his roles as the character Isaac Mendez in the NBC superhero drama Heroes, Lancelot in the BBC drama series Merlin, and Aramis in the BBC series The Musketeers. He was also the lead in the CBS drama Salvation as Darius Tanz, and played Captain Cristóbal "Cris" Rios in the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard. Cabrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where his father, a Chilean diplomat, was stationed at the time. He is the middle child of three.[1] Moving along with his father's career, Santiago grew up mainly in England, but also in Romania, Toronto and Madrid.[2] His family returned to Chile when he was fifteen years old. He was captain of his football team in high school,[1] and only tried acting when his teachers encouraged him.[3] He trained at the Drama Centre London from 2000 to 2003.

Filmography

• 2025Split Decisions
• 2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Richard
• Land of Women — Amat
• 2023Back to Las Maravillas
• Neon — Oscar
• The Cleaning Lady — Jorge Sanchez
• 2020Godmothered — Hugh Prince
• Star Trek: Picard — Cristóbal 'Chris' Rios
• The Flight Attendant — Marco
• 2019Ema — Aníbal
• Undone — Padre Reyes
• Big Little Lies — Joseph Bachman
• Salvation — Darius Tanz
• 2017Transformers: The Last Knight — Santos
• 2017What Happened to Monday — Informercial Processor
• The Musketeers — Aramis
• Anna Karenina — Aleksej Vronskij
• Falcón — Esteban Calderón
• 2012Hemingway & Gellhorn — Robert Capa
• 2012Outlaws - For Greater Glory — Father Vega
• The Mindy Project — Diego
• 2010Meant To Be
• 2010The Life of Fish — Andrés
• 2008Che: Part One — Camilo Cienfuegos
• Merlin — Lancelot, Sir Lancelot
• Dexter — Sal Price
• Heroes — Isaac Mendez
• 2006Love and Other Disasters — Paolo Sarmiento
• Empire — Octavius
• ShakespeaRe-Told
• 2005The Taming of the Shrew — Lucentio
• 2004Haven — Gene
• Spooks — Camilo Henriquez
• As If — The Postman
• Judge John Deed
• Federico, the Imaginary Life of Fellini
• In-Between — Writer, Director, Producer

Appearances as themselves (5)

• The Ready Room — Self
• Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Heroes Unmasked — Himself, Himself - Narrator
• Animal nocturno — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest