Néstor Cantillana
Birthday: Born in 1975-06-19 in Santiago, Chile
Deathday: Alive
Néstor Igor Cantillana (born July 19, 1975 in Santiago) is a Chilean actor in theater, movies and TV. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Néstor Cantillana, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Sigamos de largo
Character: Self
The most important events of the day, with a relaxed tone and high doses of humor. Each episode tackles the most relevant events that dominate the public eye, with guests who contribute their views on the matter....
Guerilleros
Character: Narrator (voice)
Exclusive testimonies of the actions taken by Chilean guerilla organization FPMR. The stories about the memebers killed in the confrontations against the CNI and the new way of fighting against the oppression Pinochet's dictatorship....
Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency....
De pé a pá
Character: Self
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Prófugos
Character: Vicente Ferragut
Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile....
Mira tú
Character: Maxi
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En terapia
Character: Santiago
Follows the development of five psychological patients through nine sessions each....
Los mil días de allende
Character: José Tohá
The story of the Salvador Allende, former president of Chile, from his presidential campaign to the day of his death on 11 September 1973. Part of the special programming for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup....
Casado con hijos
Character: Spiritual Master
The life of a crazy family of Chilean middle class. Based on the original US comedy "Married... with Children" (1987-1997) but with local twists....
La Jauría
Character: Raúl
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender....
42 días en la oscuridad
Character: Braulio Sánchez
In a town in Chile, a woman leads a frantic search to find her missing sister amid a media storm and the police investigation. Inspired by a true case....
Los archivos del cardenal
Character: Manuel Gallardo
Two young people from opposite social and political worlds will fight for a common cause: to clarify intricate and dangerous crimes of human rights violations during Pinochet's millitary dictatorship in Chile....
Pacto de sangre
Character: Marco Toselli
The lives of four lifelong friends change dramatically after a bachelor party....
Invisible Heroes
Character: Franco Panez
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme....
12 días que estremecieron Chile
Character: Joaquin
Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people....
Secretos en el jardín
Character: Juan Ramírez
A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies....
Wena profe
Character: Rodrigo Sarmiento
When the musical career of a failed upper-class musician, ends up collapsing, he decides to fool the rigid director of a school in Santiago, assuring that he is a teacher who seeks job. He will demonstrate to a group of young people that more important than to be successful, is to do things with passion....
Peleles
Character: Fabian Pizarro
Six men unfairly dismissed from their jobs, decide to take revenge and form an inexperienced band to rob the trucks of their old transport company. But what they ignore is that the new owner is one of the most dangerous mobsters of all South America....
La fiera
Character: Carlos Lizana
Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married....
20añero a los 40
Character: Eliseo Garcés
After a 20 year comma, a man awakens in a time when everything is different and in the body of a man of 40 years old but with a mentality of a twenty-something....
La canción de tu vida
Character: Alex Tobar
Eight people meet the famous Chilean radio host, "El Rumpy," and tell him about their love or heartbreak experiences. Be it a drama or a happy ending, there is a song that is part of the story, and the story is part of the song....
62: Historia de un mundial
Character: Juan Pinto Durán
A sports story about how the feat of realizing the dream of Chile hosting the 1962 World Cup was created....
Isabel
Character: Miguel Frías
From a young age, Isabel was willing to break all the socially accepted standards of her time to pursue happiness and blaze her own path. Then, at the peak of her career, she receives the devastating news that her daughter is on the verge of dying. The pain may have bent her, but it never broke her....
Papá mono
Character: Negro Goycolea
Caco, an irreverent grandfather, decides to stay for a few days in the house of Francisca, his newly divorced daughter who lives with her 11 year old son Nico. Caco with his unconventional and politically incorrect solutions, helps Francisca and her son to solve different problems....
El circo de las Montini
Character: Rodrigo Marín Lorenzo
A circus family must face a new season of performances, under the risk that this may be their last tour....
El diario secreto de una profesional
Character: Saimon
The adventures and misfortunes of Javiera, a young psychology student who works part-time in an insurence company at day...and as a high-class escort at night, she takes the name of Angela in an effort to keep her two lives separated....
Príncipes de barrio
Character: Jaime Farias
A teenager fulfills his dream of entering the professional football world....
Pampa Ilusión
Character: Tobías Pincheira 'El joven simpatía'
The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis....
La Jauría
Character: Gonzalo's Father
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender....
Los Pincheira
Character: Santos Molina
Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father....
Iorana
Character: Patricio Tepano Riroroko
Cristian is in love with the beautiful "pascuense" Vaitea, but external interests interpose between them....
Corazón de María
Character: Miguel Villa
Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life....
Romané
Character: Raúl Escudero
A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past....
Movie Credits
No One
Character:
The most successful and famous bank robber in Chilean history. Now, convinced that he has been the victim of other people's mistakes, he decides to return to crime to take revenge for his fate....
Radio Corazón
Character: Federico Ossandón
Radio Corazón recreates Chile's most successful radio show of all time. Composed of 3 fun, sexy and romantic short films based on true stories as told by the show's listeners to "Rumpy", an unparalleled radio host....
Fever
Character:
Nino is a spoiled child who, immersed by a strong fever, is absorbed by a mysterious painting. Even though his mother had warned him, the trick that made him fall prey of the painting is unleashed. And so, Nino does nothing but get lost in a maze of images trying to return home....
The Character
Character:
Transvestite is the character David must play for the annual school play. Bullying will be his main enemy as he plays the character....
No
Character: Fernando
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the ...
Mensajes privados
Character:
Stories from the intimacy of a private space launched to the screen. How we are as mothers, as fathers or as children. Stories of pain, of hope, of love, or of facing that which was never faced. Disturbing testimonies, but also full of humanity. Crises make us reflect and leave a record of who we are, in case we cease to exist. Visual notes that make up a film about our being and what we say when all certainties collapse....
El castigo
Character: Mateo
An infant disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment....
El retrato de ella
Character: Gaspar
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A Yard of Jackals
Character: Raúl Peralta
In the winter of 1978, under Chile's military regime in Santiago, Raúl Peralta, a lonely and disabled architectural model maker, lives a quiet life with only his ailing mother and a pet canary for company. His routine is upended by the arrival of new neighbors whose sinister activities seem to conceal dark secrets. Desperately clinging to the last remnants of his sanity, Raúl's life increasingly intertwines with Guillermo, a mysterious man in dark glasses. As reality unravels, the echoes of Raúl...
Neruda
Character:
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground....
The Sacred Family
Character: Marco
It's Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. A self-centered and successful father, a disoriented mother and a son overshadowed by his successful father. The three of them, wait for the arrival of the son's first official girlfriend; a disturbing and rebellious young lady who will invade the house with her powerful sexual load and other "gifts", breaking loose an emotional cataclysm with no stepping back....
A Fantastic Woman
Character: Gaston
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy....
Secos
Character: Himself
Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Secos is a short that makes this reality visible, through the dialog between anonymous fighters from the most heavily affected provinces, with renowned actors and actresses in the country. The objective is to activate the topic of water as a human right, to achieve in the future the recovery of this vital element as a common good for all communities ...
The Memory of Water
Character: Marcos
After the tragic loss of their 4-year-old son, Javier and Amanda struggle to make sense of their lives together....
Fragmentos urbanos
Character: Raúl (segment "Ciudad de maravillas")
Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts....
Un día cualquiera
Character: Ernesto
A story that highlights the charm of a chance and the magic of an unexpected encounter. A new opportunity to fall in love. 5 romantic stories....
This Is Cristina
Character: Rubén
Cristina and Susana have been best friends since high school. Now, both over 30 years old, they are still living like they did in their teenage years. Or maybe they never grew up....
12 Minutes
Character: Paco
A young director is commissioned with the task of doing a short film for a watch company....
Time Off
Character: Video Club Nerd
When Camilo and his girlfriend, Pola, start to struggle in their relationship, she asks for a week away from him to assess the situation. Although Camilo agrees, he feels confused, as his undemanding life is made uncomfortable for the first time. Soon he meets Mikela, a disaffected teenage girl whom he befriends. However, when Camilo discovers Mikela's past diagnosis as a schizophrenic, he begins to worry about her safety....
Un ladrón y su mujer
Character: Joven del vaso de leche
A thief asks his wife to visit him in prison, she goes without imagining that he is planning his escape....
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
Character: Silva (voice)
A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her....
No basta con amar
Character: Jose
A couple decides to end their relationship and look for the perfect way to tell their son Samir, who surprises them, because he actually knows a lot more than they think they do about what is happening....
Soccer Stories
Character: Francisco (segment "Pasión de multitudes")
Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football....
Codes
Character:
Camila is a Law student who will take an exam where a teacher who abused her a year ago will be present. A round of questions will change the paradigm of the protagonists because Camila decides to tell the truth...
Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
Character: Guaso Errante - The Poor man who sells his soul to the Devil
An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner"....
Enigma
Character: Roberto Sánchez
Ten years after her daughter was the victim of a hate crime, brutally beaten in the streets of Santiago for being a lesbian, Nancy is asked to participate in an unsolved mysteries TV show that will recreate the incident. Nancy, a hairdresser who has worked very hard to move on with her life, will have to decide if finding justice for her deceased daughter is worth exposing herself and her family on television....
Apps
Character: Rubén (segment "OnFire")
Four stories where an app will open the doors to horror. A young woman in the hands of a sinister network dedicated to the online transmission of abuse for high spheres of power. A voyeur will discover that his neighbors are hiding dark secrets that he wishes he had never heard. A little boy, used by his father to find dates online, will discover an enormous power within himself. A group of friends on their way to a beautiful cabin rented online, will fall into the hands of a sinister occult gro...
Spider
Character: Antonio (voice)
Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever....
The Newcomers
Character: Silvio
The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives....
Santos
Character: Gigaman Planet Waiter
Santos, a failed comic book artist, lives in a parallel universe where he's a superhero who has to save the world....
In Her Place
Character: René
After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women....