Julia Cooper is a non-union New York-based curve model and actress. She graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Theatre and Creative Writing. At Tulane, she worked and studied in every area of the theater department from costuming to set design and directing. She also spent a lot of time working on her writing, focusing in memoirs. After graduating, she continued her studies at Gotham Writers Workshop taking screenwriting, TV writing, and playwriting courses.

Living in New Orleans, Julia belonged to The Well-Hung Speakers Shadow Cast, performing the Rocky Horror Picture Show onstage at the Prytania Theater for five years. She then began working in film on set as a background artist in the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Claws, and NCIS: New Orleans before moving to New York City. 

Since moving to New York in 2018, Julia has trained at the T. Schreiber Studio, taking a variety of on camera intensives as well as voiceover training with Jeffrey Dreisbach. She has also studied acting for film at Penny Templeton, and has taken commercial intensives with Brooke and Mary. 

Julia’s acting experience expands across a variety of mediums, having roles in short films, web-series, commercials, promos, and live television, as well as musical and straight theatrical productions.

Julia also works as a standardized patient, taking on the role of a real patient with a given set of medical conditions to simulate a clinical learning environment for medical students. This job has given her the training to stay in the moment as each character, and focus on listening as she then has to evaluate the students on their performance.  

Julia began modeling in 2018, and is currently a Brand Ambassador for the underwear company Parade. She has modeled for lingerie companies such as Voluptas Rose, and was a premier model for the Who You Are Boudoir studio. She has also done print work for Planned Parenthood and Johnson & Johnson. 

While acting and modeling are Julia’s main focus, she is also passionate about working with animals; her speciality being piglets. Julia works as a pig handler. She brings piglets to birthday parties and events, hosting parties and teaching groups how to feed and hold the piglets. She has also facilitated photoshoots with piglets, and has experience training pigs of her own.