Néstor Cantillana
| Néstor Cantillana | |
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| Born |
Nestór Igor Cantillana 1973 Santiago de Chile,  Chile
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Partner(s) | Macarena Teke |
| Children | 2 |
Néstor Igor Cantillana (Born in Santiago de Chile, 1973) is a Chilean actor in theater, movies and TV.
Cantillana's grandmother was a communist and later she practiced 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 has one of the mains roles in the HBO series "Profugos". He also has supporting role in the TVN series "Los Archivos del Cardenal". This series tells the ordeals of a group of lawyers than works for Vicaria de la Solidaridad an office within the Catholic Church that investigates crimes done by Pinochet's secret police against left-winged people.
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