Biography

Aaron Daniel Potter was born in Slough, Berkshire, UK to Elise Ellis and Daniel Mulhall.

Potter is an award-winning actor, writer, and filmmaker. He found his start as a background artist while still in his final year of secondary school. Potter took screenwriting classes and ultimately created his own independent productions to be showcased at film festivals. After a few years of creating and filming across multiple countries, Potter had two feature films, four short films, and several global accolades under his belt from multiple prestigious film festivals, including Best of Fest (International Short Film Category) at the Catalina Film Festival for his latest venture, Secret Sweets, which first premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater as part of the Dances with Films official line-up. Potter then moved from his village in the UK to Los Angeles, where he signed with Arise Artists Agency and went on to co-star alongside Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, Imogen Faith Reid and Christina Hendricks in the limited television series, Good American Family, for Hulu & ABC. Potter is open about his autism and the passion he has for authentic representation on the screen and is overjoyed to have been able to portray a character that shares his disability on Good American Family.

Potter has a long history of dedicated work to social causes, specifically suicide prevention and raising awareness around mental health, domestic abuse, addiction, LGBTQ+ visibility, promoting adoption, and accessibility/opportunities for persons living with disabilities. With the support of First4Adoption (UK's National Adoption Service) and NASA, Potter's short film, The Room Landing, premiered at and opened the National Adoption Awards in London at the world's first ever orphanage, honoring incredible social workers across the United Kingdom. Potter was interviewed multiple times on BBC Radio for his 3-part poetry short film collection, I Invoke Neurosis, that raised discussions on a variety of social issues. He was featured on the cover of aTEEN magazine (the teen edition of Europe's biggest gay magazine, Attitude) and has had his work showcased as part of the official line-up for the groundbreaking Flicks4Change Film Festival in Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: AP