Santiago Cabrera

Santiago Cabrera (born 5 May 1978) is a Venezuelan-born Chilean-British actor.

He played Sal Price, an investigative writer, on Showtime's series DEXTER.

Appearances
Season Seven
 * "Do the Wrong Thing"


 * "Chemistry"

Career
Cabrera 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. He has appeared on American television in Empire where he portrays Octavius.. Most notably, he is known for his role as Isaac Mendez in the NBC series Heroes after which he narrated some episodes of the BBC's spin-off documentary series Heroes Unmasked. He also played Lancelot in the BBC drama series Merlin. Santiago has also played the Role as Darius in the CBS/Netflix hit TV show Salvation.

Personal Life
A middle child, 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 he headed towards acting when his high school drama teacher encouraged him to try it. In addition to his fluency in Spanish, English, French and Italian, Cabrera is skilled in tennis, hockey and scuba diving. He had discussed his semi-professional football career before he fully committed to acting Cabrera is married to Anna Marcea, a theatre director. Their son was born in 2016. Although he considers Santiago, Chile, his hometown, he splits his time between London and Los Angeles.

Trivia

 * 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.