Néstor Cantillana

Néstor Cantillana
Born	Nestór Igor Cantillana
Occupation	Actor

Néstor Igor Cantillana (Born in Santiago de Chile, 1973) is a Chilean actor of a huge trajectory in theater, movies and TV.

His family practices the evangelic religion and he grew up under that doctrine until 12 years old in Curicó. He used to play the piano in the local church.

He studied in the theater academy of Fernando González.

Since 1994 he has participated in theater work such as “Historia de la Sangre” (1995), “Calígula” (1998), “Hamlet” (2000) and “La Herencia” (2000).

In 1995, Cantillana traveled to the Canadian city of Montreal with the play “Historia de la Sangre". The following year, 1996, he participated in the same play in Berlin, a city where he would return that same year with the play "La misión". In 1998, the actor would return to Germany to present the same play in Munich, Bonn and Stuttgart.

In 1996, Néstor Cantillana received the award to the best actor for his role in the play “Despertar de Primavera”, presented in the third festival of "Nuevas Tendencias Teatrales".

He made his debut in the Soap Opera world in the role of Patricio Tepano in Iorana (1998) from TVN, he then performed some other characters, among them, an AIDS victim, a common employee, a frustrated detective and a young homosexual doctor.

Néstor Cantillana was nominated to the award premio Altazor for his role in the soap opera Romané and he won the award premio APES as the best actor in the year 2000.

He had the protagonist role in the TVN soap opera, Corazón de María (2007), where he plays Miguel.

He acted in the movie Radio Corazón (that is the sequel to El Chacotero Sentimental), with Claudia Di Girólamo, Tamara Acosta, Felipe Braun, y Manuela Martelli among others, under director Roberto Artiagoitía(El Rumpy) and with screenwriter Pablo Illanes. The argument represents the personal relations among family members and combines various elements, principally comedy, with some romance and drama aspects.

Cinema

• Radio Corazón(2007)- Federico
• Pedro Ñancúpel, el pirata del fin del mundo (2007) - Pedro Ñancúpel
• Las Golondrinas de Altazor (2006) - Altazor
• Paréntesis (2005)
• La Sagrada familia (2004) - Marco (hijo)
• Los Debutantes (2003) - Silvio
• Ciudad de maravillas (2002) - Raul
• Fragmentos urbanos (2002)
• Un Ladrón y su mujer (2001)
• Historias de fútbol (1997) - Francisco
• E s 3 (1995)

TV

Soap Operas

• Viuda Alegre (2008) - Andrés Tapia
• Corazón de María (TVN, 2007) - Miguel Villa
• Cómplices (TVN, 2006) - Sebastián Opazo
• Los Pincheira (TVN, 2004) - Santos Molina
• Puertas Adentro (TVN, 2003) - Raúl Brito
• El circo de las Montini (TVN, 2002) - Rodrigo Marín
• Pampa Ilusión (TVN, 2001) - Tobías Pincheira
• Romané (TVN, 2000) - Escudero
• La Fiera (TVN, 1999) - Carlos Lizana
• Iorana (TVN, 1998) - Patricio Tepano

Series and other TV

• Mira Tú (TVN,2002) - Maxi
• Cuentos Chilenos (El pozo) (TVN, 2001)
• Cuentos Chilenos (Gracia y el forastero) (TVN, 2000) - Gabriel

Theater

• Pelo Negro, Boca Arriba(2007)
• Sueño con revólver (2007)
• Roberto Zucco (2006)
• De noche, justo antes de los bosques (2004)
• Hamlet (2000)
• La Herencia (2000)
• Calígula (1998)
• La Misión(1998)
• Despertar de Primavera(1996)
• Historia de la Sangre(1995)
• Le senttiment de la langue
• Cada vez que ladra los perros