Carloto Cotta
Acting
Biography
Carloto Cotta is a Portuguese actor, born in Paris on January 31, 1984. He grew up in Lisbon, and at the age of 15 he started his acting training at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais. He made his film debut in Miguel Gomes' 31 (2003). Since then, Cotta has been a regular presence in the Portuguese cinema. He got the attention of the critics and audiences with his lead role in the short film Arena (2009), that won the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. Carloto Cotta got international recognition with his performance in Tabu (2012).
Born: January 31, 1984
Place of Birth: Parigi, Francia
Known For
Elite
When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.
Arabian Nights
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Mysteries of Lisbon
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
Tabu
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!
Moço
Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.
Delírio em Las Vedras
Seven competing reporters are assigned to cover the Carnavael de Torres Vedras in Lisbon. Each of the seven tries to attract as much audience as possible to their broadcast. The situation escalates at a masked ball.
Santa Bárbara
Prisioneira
Filmography
as Afonso
as Tonton
as Agente Gaspar
as Vítor
as Ed / Manuel / Artur
as @_santo84
as Ele
as Boris
as Carloto
as Man at Home
as Zé
as Tiago
as Omar Maluf
as Diamantino Matamouros
as Jaime Rosa Neto
as Fernando Pessoa / Álvaro de Campos
as Cruz Carvalho
as Homem na Estufa
as Norberto Lopes
as Timmy
as Gustavo
as Fernando Beltrão
as Paddleman
as Tradutor
as (segment "Los Barcos") / (segment "Freud and Friends")
as Marco
as Batman
as Batman
as Tenente Pedro de Alencar
as Young Gian Luca Ventura
as João Lucas
as Angel Falco
as D. Álvaro de Albuquerque
as D. Álvaro de Albuquerque
as Jesus Christ
as João (segment "Cara ou Coroa")
as Colega
as Carlos
as Boy at the party (uncredited)
as Centro Comercial: Ricardo
as D. Sebastiao
as Mauro
as Mobile guard
as Megalopes
as Miguel Valente
as Alberto
as Texas
as Young Baudelaire