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Birthday: Dec 14, 1973
Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Jan Uuspõld

Jan Uuspõld (born December 14, 1973) is an Estonian stage, television, radio and film actor and musician. Jan Uuspõld was born in Tallinn, the eldest of three sons of Ingar and Heidi Uuspõld. His mother is an accountant and his father was a long-distance truck driver. He was raised mostly in Hiiu, Nõmme and attended schools in Keila and Tallinn. In middle school was enrolled in music class and sang in a school choir. He graduated from Tallinn's 1st Industrial High School in 1991 where he trained as an offset printer. As a teenager, he wished to become a musician. Influenced in part by the Estonian punk rock band J.M.K.E., he formed a punk band called Trakulla at age fifteen with several classmates and younger brother Andrus after his mother gave him money to buy a guitar. The band went through several music styles and incarnations until eventually being called Luxury Filters and playing predominately jazz and Texas blues inspired songs. After recording several songs, the band appeared on the television Eesti Televisioon (ETV) program 7 vaprat and found a degree of success in Estonia. Their most popular single, "Tramm nr 66", sung by Uuspõld, was released in 1992 when Uuspõld was nineteen. The band folded not long after, but reformed on several occasions, performing on ETV and the 2013 August Blues Festival in Haapsalu. After Luxury Filters broke up, Uuspõld was inspired to become an actor after watching Estonian actor Tõnu Kark perform in a stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1994 he applied to and was accepted at the EMA Higher Drama School (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, graduating in 1998. Among his graduating classmate were actors Harriet Toompere, Tiit Sukk, Veikko Täär, Liina Vahtrik, and Andero Ermel. While still a student, his course instructor Priit Pedajas offered him an engagement at the Estonian Drama Theatre. He would perform at the Estonian Drama Theatre from 1996 until 2013 in roles by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dostoyevsky, among many others. From 2005 until 2007 he also performed for two seasons at the Vanemuine theater in Tartu and from 2009 to 2014, with partner Karl Kermes, he created the Monoteater, which staged several plays. In 2013 he developed his own theater production company called Prem Productions. Jan Uuspõld's first film role as an actor was in the 1999 Ervin Õunapuu directed short Kõrbekuu. His first television appearance as an actor was in the Kanal 2 comedy series Wremja in 2001. He would appear in the program as a regular until 2003. This was followed by a dual role in the Finnish YLE2 television series Siperian Nero! He would go on to appear in roles for such television series as: Rikospoliisi ei laula (2006), Ohtlik lend (2006), Kelgukoerad (2007), Brigaad 3 (2007), Kättemaksukontor (2009-2012), among others. Shortly after leaving the Estonian Drama Theatre, Uuspõld had an idea to create a comedic road movie. After presenting his idea to directors and screenwriters Rain Tolk and Andres Maimik, the three collaborated in making the 2007 comedy Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse (English release title: 186 Kilometers). In the film Uuspõld plays a down-on-his-luck caricature of himself, trying to hitchhike from Tallinn to Tartu to perform in a role at the Vanemuine theater.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Poop, Spring and Others (voice) 2023
Hunting Season Aadam 2021
Somnambulance Ivanes 2003
Tree of Eternal Love Bartender 2022
Wildman jan 2009
Tenet Blue Co-Pilot 2020
Vasha Jüri 2009
Frank & Wendy Frank (voice) 2005
Free Range Colleague 2013
Father 2012
Ladybirds' Christmas Jussi (voice) 2001
Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow Official (Virgin) 2017
Vanaisa Vanaisa 2013
Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts Security Guard 2023
Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter Troop Leader 2023
Why Me? Himself 2014
8 Views of Lake Biwa Sora / Olger 2024
The Old Man and Gasworm Gasworm (voice) 2022
Ruudi Gynnar 2006
186 Kilometers Jan 2007
Jan Uuspõld Goes Home Jan 1970
Tango of Mustamägi miilits 2022
Made in Estonia Toonik 2003
The Spy And The Poet Gustav 2016
Swingers Indrek 2017
Class Reunion 3: Godfathers Trainer 2019
The Old Man Movie Old Milker / Sawyer Jan (voice) 2019
Kratt Pastor 2020
Raggie Boy Rat (voice) 2020
Estonian Funeral Sass 2021
Things, We Do Not Talk About 2020
Antipolis (voice) 2023
Series Cast Year
Siperian Nero! Leo 2000
Revenge Office Elmer 2009
Cats Mr. Totter / Kuuno / Dima 2006
Rikospoliisi ei laula Kalev 2006
Wremja Jaan Zorro 2001
Wremja rullnokk Pets 2001
Sipelga 14 Jaan Zorro / rullnokk Pets 2007
Lahutus Eesti moodi Aksel 2019
Tuuli Roosma mees Jan Uuspõld 2021
Alpine House Ain Luurberg 2012
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