Jan Uuspõld
Date of birth: 1973-12-14
Place of birth: Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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.
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Poop, Spring and Others
2023-02-09
Based on Andrus Kivirähk's books "Poo and spring", "Carnival and Potato Salad" and "Ghost and Facebo
Hunting Season
2021-12-03
Eva, 45, has recently divorced and is now afraid of losing both her son and her best friend to her e
Somnambulance
2003-09-19
Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontl
Tree of Eternal Love
2022-01-21
Kiik, a young car mechanic stuck between the gears of life, finds out that his girlfriend's heart ha
Wildman
2009-03-06
"Ürgmees" on Ameerika näitekirjaniku Rob Beckeri kirjutatud ühemeheetendus, mis toob välja, et igas
Tenet
2020-08-22
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonis
Vasha
2009-01-23
Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game
Frank & Wendy
2005-03-25
Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Es
Free Range
2013-09-19
After being fired from his job at a newspaper for writing a destructive review of a celebrated movie
Father
2012-02-23
How to be a father. A one-man play written in 2007 by Icelandic playwright, director, actor and prod
Ladybirds' Christmas
2001-11-29
Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a C
Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
2017-11-25
The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The le
Vanaisa
2013-03-06
The third production in a series of Monoteater productions on the theme of "A Man's Life". In its fi
Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts
2023-11-07
After the death of the world's last cow, a young couple finds themselves on a hunt for butter throug
Why Me?
2014-03-01
Why do we wake up every morning still wanting to sleep? Why do we go to work when the pay is low and
Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter
2023-04-14
Melchior’s bride Keterlyn happens to witness an attack on a young man. The victim, who has lost his
8 Views of Lake Biwa
2024-02-16
On the shimmering shores of Europe’s otherworldly edge, two teenage girls, Hanake and her best frien
The Old Man and Gasworm
2022-10-31
A mysterious Gasworm steals the Old Man's prized pig. Now the Old Man has 24 hours to defuse the pig
Ruudi
2006-02-24
A family comedy about a 7-year-old boy, who's a devoted viking fan.
186 Kilometers
2007-02-10
Jan Uuspõld is a talented actor who is not up to scratch due to his problems with alcohol. He makes
Jan Uuspõld Goes Home
2025-02-28
When actor Jan Uuspõld has to film a promotional video for his summer fling Brita’s beauty salon, hi
Tango of Mustamägi
2022-11-17
It is the middle of the 1980s in Soviet Estonia and many people dream of a new apartment with all th
Made in Estonia
2003-02-20
Two talented radio actors from Estonia have their lives turned upside down by the arrival of Gerli.
The Spy and The Poet
2016-09-23
Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is
Swingers
2017-11-10
The "Swingers" is a shameless (and sometimes shy) relationship comedy with the main focus on sex.
Class Reunion 3: Godfathers
2019-01-22
The final film in the trilogy takes us on another wild ridewhich will stop at nothing and will leave
The Old Man Movie
2019-09-27
An outrageous road movie about The Old Man and his grandkids in a 24 hour race against time to stop
Kratt
2020-11-13
Children are left at grandma's house without their smartphones. Real life seems rather boring until
Raggie
2020-01-17
A story about a very special and very charming living doll that causes a bit of jealousy between bro
Estonian Funeral
2021-06-04
A wide range of relatives and acquaintances have traveled to a funeral, and as is typical of Estonia
Things, We Do Not Talk About
2020-03-06
An adaptation of the Australian film “The Little Death” (2014). A black comedy about sex, love, rela
Antipolis
2023-08-16
In a world within the Earth, Antipolis inhabitants unaware of their globe existence face a shocking
An Affair of Honor
1999-02-26
Hendrik is a responsible public servant who is deeply in love with his beautiful wife Evelin. Evelin
Father
1998-01-01
Story about a single father who restricts every aspect of his life and tries to raise his son in the
Svingerid 2
2026-04-03
If you’ve put a cast on a broken bone, do you then wonder why you can’t just spring to your feet and
Night Navigation
1999-03-12
A group of young people goes for a walk on a summer night which stirs the imagination. They begin te
Säärane mulk
2026-02-27
Something Real
Porn addict Leo, who is desperately looking for a connection, wants to meet up with a woman he met o
The Mystery of Missing Socks
2023-11-01
Little Pille goes to find her father’s missing socks under the bed, to a fantastical world of forgot
Photo That Came to Life
2024-06-08