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, Cantillana received the award for best actor for his role in the play
Despertar de Primavera, presented in the third Nuevas Tendencias Teatrales festival. He made his debut in the
telenovela 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. Cantillana was nominated for an
Altazor Award for his role in the soap opera
Romané and he won the APES award 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
Prófugos. 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 by
Augusto Pinochet's secret police against left-wing people. He acted in the movie
Radio Corazón (the sequel to
El Chacotero Sentimental), with
Claudia Di Girólamo,
Tamara Acosta and
Manuela Martelli, 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. He also played supporting roles in the
Oscar-nominated
No (2012) and the Oscar-winning drama
A Fantastic Woman (2017). == Filmography ==