Julius Cotter

Julius Cotter is a bilingual Irish actor working in both English and Spanish, best known for his roles as the sociopathic drug lord Diosdado in the Prime Video series Silent Cargo (Operación Marea Negra, 2024), and as Hugh Fleming in the Spanish domestic noir drama Truth (La Verdad, 2018), also on Prime Video.

Screen credits also include the American fantasy drama series Warrior Nun, as the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Spanish crime series Gangs of Galicia, as drug smuggler Sandro (both on Netflix). He also appeared in the international heist action film The Vault, directed by Jaume Balagueró, alongside Freddie Highmore.

Cotter trained in the Meisner technique in Barcelona with Javier Galitó-Cava (certified by the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York) and further honed his craft through masterclasses with Rachael Adler, a student of Sanford Meisner.

Born Julius Laurence George Cotter in Dublin, Ireland, he has lived most of his life between England and Spain. Of Norse-Gaelic heritage, he is a descendant of Óttar of Dublin, a Hiberno-Norse king whose reign marked a significant chapter in the Viking history of Ireland. From an early age, Cotter was drawn to the arts-participating in school theatre productions, painting, and writing poetry.

He was educated at Allhallows College, Rousdon, and later earned a BA Honours degree in Fine Art and Film Theory from the University of East London. He worked as gallery assistant at the Michael Parkin Fine Art gallery in Motcomb street, Belgravia, London, cataloguing and hanging shows, and later as an assistant director for various Production Companies in Spain. He then went on to work in front of the camera and has been an actor since 2010, working in theatre, television, and film.

In his short but intense career, he has worked with directors such as Neil Jordan, Stacie Passon, Juanjo Giménez, Esteban Crespo, Denis Rovira, Jaume Balagueró, Rodrigo Cortés, and Lucie Borleteau, and with actors including Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson, Awkwafina, Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Joaquim de Almeida, Natalia Tena, Raúl Arévalo, Lúcia Moniz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Colm Meaney, and Nerea Barros.