Jan Potměšil
Actor, Film actor
1966 –
Who is Jan Potměšil?
Jan Potměšil 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, the title role in Richard III, 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.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1966
Prague - Also known as
- Jan Potmesil
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Radka Prchalová
(2004/08/24 - )
- Radka Prchalová
- Children
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Profession
- Lived in
- Prague
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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