Jan Potměšil (born 31 March 1966 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech actor.
In summer 1989, he finished his lectures at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and joined Divadlo na Vinohradech. Later that year, he hooked up with other students and actors who were going to Ostrava to persuade the miners to support the Velvet Revolution. On the way back, his car crashed on a frozen road. Since then, Potměšil has been
paralysed from the waist down. He uses a wheelchair.
He is currently a prominent member of the Kašpar theatre company that performs in the Divadlo v Celetné, Prague. He performed major characters in several plays. The most notable ones include Charlie Gordon in Flowers for Algernon (more than ten years on the repertoire), the title role in Richard III (received Alfréd Radok Award for best actor), Jesus in Felix Mitterer's Trouble in the House of God, or Polonius in Hamlet. In Lyra Pragensis, he performed Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in Pavlík's Beauty from Moulin Rouge, Fletcher in a scenic reading of Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Dickie in Running from Safety of the same author.
2014
as Beránek
2014
as Martin
2012
as Himself
2010
as Himself
2007
2005
2004
as kpt. Nečas
1999
as Self
1999
1996
as Michal
1995
as rytíř
1989
1989
1989
as Vojta
1988
as Martin
1987
as tovaryš Jíra
1987
as Milan
1987
as Jakub
1986
as Vojta Král
1985
as Tomáš
1983
1983
1981
as Tomás
1981
1980
1979
as Viktor
1977
1977
1972