“My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My f…” — Santiago Cabrera

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts.

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.