Iulian Postelnicu

Birthday: 1978-06-25
Birthplace: București, România
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Iulian Postelnicu graduated from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest with a Bachelor’s Degree in acting. He played several supporting characters in films such as Domestic (2012), A Decent Man (2018), and One Floor Below (2015), for which he received a Gopo nomination as Best Supporting Character. In 2019 he played the character of Vali in Arrest, for which he won the Gopo Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His more recent characters include Costin in Otto the Barbarian (2020), nominated for the Gopo Award as Best Supporting Character, Daniel in the HBO TV show Ruxx (2022), Sorin in the HBO TV show Spy/Master (2023), and Ilie in Men of Deeds (2022), for which he won the Best Performance Award at FIFF Namur, the Outstanding Individual Performance Award at FilmFestival Cottbus, and the Gopo Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

He also appeared in The New Year That Never Came, for which he received a Gopo nomination as Best Supporting Actor, and in Freedom, for which he won the Gopo Award for Best Supporting Actor. His recent work also includes the Netflix series Plaha, in which he plays the lead role.

In addition to his acting career, Iulian Postelnicu worked as a writer for several Romanian TV shows like Mondenii, SRC, and Las Fierbinti. He co-wrote, together with Bogdan George Apetri, the screenplay for Unidentified (2020), for which they won the Gopo Award for Best Screenplay.

- IMDb mini biography by: Ana Maria

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2027-04-23	Comoara lui Harap-Alb	Spânul
	2026-09-18	April X	Adrian
	2026-07-03	A River's Gaze
	2025-12-01	Christmas with Ramon	Litra
	2024-10-25	The Perfect Candidate	Nicolae Chioru
	2024-09-27	The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son
	2024-09-27	The New Year That Never Came	Ionuț Dincă
	2024-04-20	Holy Week	Carol
	2023-10-06	Libertate	Lt. Col. Dragoman
	2023-03-21	The Action Pack	Stănescu
	2023-02-03	Ramon
	2023-01-28	Where No Ships Go	Father
	2022-11-25	Men of Deeds	Ilie
	2022-06-25	Aurica, a Dog's Life	Guta
	2020-08-15	Otto the Barbarian
	2019-06-07	Arest	Vali
	2018-11-30	Moon Hotel Kabul
	2018-10-19	A Decent Man
	2018-03-01	100 EUR	Andrei
	2016-08-08	Old, Luxurious Flat Located in an Ultra-Central, Desirable Neighborhood
	2015-09-18	One Floor Below	Vali
	2012-10-19	Sweet Little Lies	Broker 2
	2011-01-01	Bora Bora	Policeman
	2009-05-29	Tales from the Golden Age	First Guard (segment "The Legend of the Chicken Driver")