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Jan Uuspõld
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Jan Uuspõld
Homepage
https://uuspold.ee/et/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1973-12-14,Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

Poop, Spring and Others

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Poop, Spring and Others
2023-02-09

2

Hunting Season
2021-12-03

5.7

Somnambulance
2003-09-19

Tree of Eternal Love

5.8

Tree of Eternal Love
2022-01-21

10

Wildman
2009-03-06

7.2

Tenet
2020-08-22

5.8

Vasha
2009-01-23

6.5

Frank & Wendy
2005-03-25

4.9

Free Range
2013-09-19

9

Father
2012-02-23

Ladybirds' Christmas

6

Ladybirds' Christmas
2001-11-29

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

5.2

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
2017-11-25

4.2

Vanaisa
2013-03-06

Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts

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Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts
2023-11-07

0

Why Me?
2014-03-01

Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter

5.9

Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter
2023-04-14

8 Views of Lake Biwa

7

8 Views of Lake Biwa
2024-02-16

The Old Man and Gasworm

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The Old Man and Gasworm
2022-10-31

6.1

Ruudi
2006-02-24

3.4

186 Kilometers
2007-02-10

Jan Uuspõld Goes Home

6

Jan Uuspõld Goes Home
2025-02-28

Tango of Mustamägi

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Tango of Mustamägi
2022-11-17

Made in Estonia

5.6

Made in Estonia
2003-02-20

The Spy and The Poet

5.2

The Spy and The Poet
2016-09-23

2.3

Swingers
2017-11-10

Class Reunion 3: Godfathers

4.6

Class Reunion 3: Godfathers
2019-01-22

The Old Man Movie

6.9

The Old Man Movie
2019-09-27

4.5

Kratt
2020-11-13

6.5

Raggie
2020-01-17

Estonian Funeral

6.5

Estonian Funeral
2021-06-04

Things, We Do Not Talk About

7

Things, We Do Not Talk About
2020-03-06

0

Antipolis
2023-08-16

An Affair of Honor

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An Affair of Honor
1999-02-26

7

Father
1998-01-01

0

Siperian Nero!
2000-10-31

The Vengeance Bureau

6.5

The Vengeance Bureau
2009-04-30

0

Cats
2006-04-15

Rikospoliisi ei laula

6.7

Rikospoliisi ei laula
2006-10-01

0

Wremja
2001-01-01

0

Wremja
2001-01-01

0

Sipelga 14
2007-01-01

Lahutus Eesti moodi

0

Lahutus Eesti moodi
2019-10-18

Tuuli Roosma mees

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Tuuli Roosma mees
2021-04-01

0

Alpine House
2012-04-13