A modern day Renaissance man, Zak Santiago is a Golden Gloves winning boxer, popular nightclub DJ, classically trained musician, ballet and flamenco dancer, and an actor. He won a Leo Award in 1994 for best supporting actor in the lauded Human Cargo, and was praised for his supporting lead work as one of the terrorists in A&E’s ratings blockbuster Flight 93. In 2006 he was nominated for another acting Leo for his work on Young Blades. In 1998, he ended his amateur boxing career to focus exclusively on dance. He has studied classical ballet and flamenco extensively for many years and in 2000 he was accepted to Madrid’s world-renowned Amor de Dios Academy where he studied under several legends of flamenco.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Seven Days (TV-1998)
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (TV-1998)
Late Night Sessions (1999)
Sweetwater (TV-1999)
Trixie (2000)
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (VR-2001)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
How It All Went Down (2003)
The Goodbye Girl (TV-2004)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (TV-2004)
Rapid Fire (TV-2005)
Ladies Night (TV-2005)
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (TV-2005)
Murder at the Presidio (TV-2005)
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story (TV-2005)
Culebras (2005)
Underclassman (2005)
Severed (2005)
Intelligence (TV-2005)
Flight 93 (TV-2006)
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (TV-2006)
Canes (2006)
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (TV-2006)
Deck the Halls (2006)
Home by Christmas (TV-2006)
Shooter (2007)
A Family Lost (TV-2007)
Cleaverville (TV-2007)
Normal (2007)
The Eye (2008)
Ace of Hearts (2007)
Tortured (2008)
The Farm (TV-2009)
Driven to Kill (VR-2009)
The Tortured (2010)
At Risk (TV-2010)
The Front (TV-2010)
Amazon Falls (2010)
Smoke Screen (TV-2010)
Killer Mountain (TV-2011)
The House (2011)
Lucille in Love: I Saw You (2012, short)
Rags (TV-2012)
The Music Teacher (TV-2012)
Back 2 Rap (2012, short)
Maximum Conviction (2012)
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (TV-2012)
Random Acts of Romance (2013)
Chupacabra vs. the Alamo (TV-2013)
Stalkers (TV-2013)
Concrete Blondes (2013)
Baby Sellers (TV-2013)
The Dick Knost Show (2013)
Perfect Sisters (2014)
Bad City (2014)
What an Idiot (2014)
Til Death Do Us Part (TV-2014)
Fatal Memories (TV-2015)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From Paris with Love (TV-2015)
Love, Again (TV-2015)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Impossible Dream (TV-2015)
Iteration 1 (2016, short)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: One in a Million (TV-2016)
Mostly Ghostly: One Night in Doom House (VR-2016)
The Assignment (2016)
Ganjy (2016)
Another Place (2016, short)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground (TV-2017)
Cult of Chucky (2017)
Real Fiction (2017)
Meditation Park (2017)
Christmas Princess (TV-2017)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Road Less Travelled (TV-2018)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: To the Altar (TV-2018)
Velvet (2018)
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls (2019)
My Wife’s Secret Life (TV-2019)
Promiseland (2019)
TV Series – Cast:
Out of Order (2003, mini-series)
Human Cargo (2004, mini-series)
Kingdom Hospital (2004)
Young Blades (2005)
Robson Arms (2005-2008)
The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008, mini-series)
The Assistants (2009)
Alice (2009, mini-series)
True Justice (2012)
Delete (2013, mini-series)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (2016-2017)
TV Series – Guest appearances:
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1997)
Viper (1998)
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998, 1999)
Night Man (1999)
Cold Squad (1999)
Higher Ground (2000)
Level 9 (2000)
Big Sound (2001)
Da Vinci’s Inquest (2001)
Dark Angel (2002)
Jeremiah (2002)
The Twilight Zone (2002)
The Dead Zone (2003)
Dead Like Me (2003)
Stargate SG-1 (2003)
The L Word (2004)
The Evidence (2006)
Godiva’s (2006)
Saved (2006)
Intelligence (2006)
Smallville (2006)
The 4400 (2007)
Flash Gordon (2007)
Eureka (2008)
Defying Gravity (2009)
Alice (2009)
SGU Stargate Universe (2009, 2010)
Human Target (2010)
Psych (2010)
Caprica (2010)
The Troop (2011)
V (2011)
Sanctuary (2011)
Fairly Legal (2012)
Fringe (2012)
Health Nutz (2013)
Once Upon a Time (2013)
The True Heroines (2013)
King & Maxwell (2013)
Cult (2013)
Continuum (2013, 2014)
Motive (2014)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (2014)
Hell on Wheels (2014)
Witches of East End (2014)
Ghost Unit (2015)
The 100 (2016)
iZombie (2016)
Shut Eye (2016)
The Arrangement (2017)
Ghost Wars (2017, 2018)
The X Files (2018)
Travelers (2018)
Blood & Treasure (2019)
Wu Assassins (2019)
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