
Jan Uuspõld (born December 14, 1973) is an Estonian stage, television, radio and film actor and musician.
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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Svingerid 2
Character:Indrek
Release Date:03/04/2026

Something Real
Character:Leo
Release Date:20/03/2026

Säärane mulk
Character:Kure Aadu
Release Date:27/02/2026

Jan Uuspõld Goes Home
Character:Jan
Release Date:28/02/2025

Photo That Came to Life
Character:(voice)
Release Date:08/06/2024

8 Views of Lake Biwa
Character:Sora / Olger
Release Date:16/02/2024

Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts
Character:Security Guard
Release Date:07/11/2023

The Mystery of Missing Socks
Character:(voice)
Release Date:01/11/2023

Antipolis
Character:(voice)
Release Date:16/08/2023

Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter
Character:Troop Leader
Release Date:14/04/2023

Poop, Spring and Others
Character:(voice)
Release Date:09/02/2023

Tango of Mustamägi
Character:miilits
Release Date:17/11/2022

The Old Man and Gasworm
Character:Gasworm (voice)
Release Date:31/10/2022

Tree of Eternal Love
Character:Bartender
Release Date:21/01/2022

Hunting Season
Character:Aadam
Release Date:03/12/2021

Estonian Funeral
Character:Sass
Release Date:04/06/2021

Kratt
Character:Pastor
Release Date:13/11/2020

Tenet
Character:Blue Co-Pilot
Release Date:22/08/2020

Things, We Do Not Talk About
Character:
Release Date:06/03/2020

Raggie
Character:Boy Rat (voice)
Release Date:17/01/2020

The Old Man Movie
Character:Old Milker / Sawyer Jan (voice)
Release Date:27/09/2019

Class Reunion 3: Godfathers
Character:Trainer
Release Date:22/01/2019

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
Character:Official (Virgin)
Release Date:25/11/2017

Swingers
Character:Indrek
Release Date:10/11/2017

The Spy and The Poet
Character:Gustav
Release Date:23/09/2016

Why Me?
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/03/2014

Free Range
Character:Colleague
Release Date:19/09/2013

Vanaisa
Character:Vanaisa
Release Date:06/03/2013

Father
Character:
Release Date:23/02/2012

Wildman
Character:jan
Release Date:06/03/2009

Vasha
Character:Jüri
Release Date:23/01/2009

186 Kilometers
Character:Jan
Release Date:10/02/2007

Ruudi
Character:Gynnar
Release Date:24/02/2006

Frank & Wendy
Character:Frank (voice)
Release Date:25/03/2005

Somnambulance
Character:Ivanes
Release Date:19/09/2003

Made in Estonia
Character:Toonik
Release Date:20/02/2003

Ladybirds' Christmas
Character:Jussi (voice)
Release Date:29/11/2001

Night Navigation
Character:
Release Date:12/03/1999

An Affair of Honor
Character:Man holding Hat on Film Set
Release Date:26/02/1999

Father
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1998

Tuuli Roosma mees
Character:Jan Uuspõld

Lahutus Eesti moodi
Character:Aksel

Alpine House
Character:Ain Luurberg

Revenge Office
Character:Elmer

Sipelga 14
Character:Jaan Zorro / rullnokk Pets

Rikospoliisi ei laula
Character:Kalev

Cats
Character:Mr. Totter / Kuuno / Dima

Wremja
Character:Jaan Zorro

Wremja
Character:rullnokk Pets

Siperian Nero!
Character:Leo