Julius Cotter

Julius Cotter is an Irish-English actor known for his roles as Sandro in the Netflix series Gangs of Galicia (2024), the sociopathic drug lord Diosdado in Prime Video’s Silent Cargo (2022), and Hugh Fleming in the Spanish noir series Truth (2018), also on Prime Video. Screen credits also include Warrior Nun (2020), the American fantasy drama series in which he plays the Archbishop of Canterbury; Unauthorized Living (2018), the Spanish crime series as Mr. Anderson, both on Netflix; and the international heist-action film The Vault (2021), directed by Jaume Balagueró, alongside Freddie Highmore. He 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. Cotter was drawn to the arts from an early age 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 began acting professionally in 2014. In his short but intense career, he has worked with directors such as Neil Jordan, Stacie Passon, Juanjo Giménez, 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, Colm Meaney, and Nerea Barros. He speaks fluent Spanish alongside his native English, works professionally in both languages, and has basic-level French.