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Jonathan Potts

Acting

Jonathan Potts

EN cinema · 33 credits

Born

17 July 1964 (age 62)

Birthplace

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan Potts (born July 17, 1964, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor and voice actor whose career began in the late 1980s. He graduated from York University's theatre program in 1989 and immediately began working in film and television. He is best known for providing the voice of Link in The Legend of Zelda animated series (1989) and Captain N: The Game Master (1989), as well as voicing Troy Jeffries in the animated series Beverly Hills Teens (1987). Over his 40-year career he has voiced more than 1,500 radio and television commercials and appeared in over 100 animated episodes. He is married to Victoria and has three children. His most notable live-action film credits include Professor Brandon Lowe in Jason X (2001), Dr. Dunn in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007, starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman), a D.I.A. agent in Breach (2007, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger), Rick Daigle in Still Mine (2012, alongside James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold), Blake in Rupture (2016, with Noomi Rapace), August in Len and Company (2015, with Rhys Ifans), Anon (2018), and Totally Killer (2023, Amazon). His first lead role was Jim Houghton in the CBC miniseries Conspiracy of Silence, a major Canadian hit that was sold to the BBC and NBC. On television he is best known as Captain Doyle Redfern in The Strain (2014, 3 episodes), Mr. Gitten in Ginny & Georgia (2021, 9 episodes, Netflix), and Dr. Tibideaux in How to Die Alone (2024, Hulu), with additional credits in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018), The Comey Rule (2020), Murdoch Mysteries, Supernatural (2016), Dream House (2011), Road to Avonlea, and Due South. He also co-produced Seance: The Summoning (2011).

Known for

Filmography

Believer poster

Believer

EN · 20245.5

as Eddie Moore

Totally Killer poster

Totally Killer

EN · 20236.8

as Chris Dubasage

Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat poster

Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat

EN · 20221.0

as Dressed As Waldo

Anon poster

Anon

EN · 20186.0

as Dominic Ray

Population Zero poster

Population Zero

EN · 20165.8

as Victor Flynn

Rupture poster

Rupture

EN · 20164.9

as Blake

No Stranger Than Love poster

No Stranger Than Love

EN · 20154.6

as John Linnehan

Clara's Deadly Secret poster

Clara's Deadly Secret

EN · 20135.1

as Arnold

Still Mine poster

Still Mine

EN · 20126.9

as Rick Daigle

Dream House poster

Dream House

EN · 20116.2

as Tony Ferguson

Devil poster

Devil

EN · 20106.1

as Wayne Kazan

The Legend of Zelda: The Power of the Triforce poster

The Legend of Zelda: The Power of the Triforce

EN · 20086.5

as Link (voice)

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet poster

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

EN · 20085.2

as Principal Bowman

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium poster

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

EN · 20076.3

as Dr. Sage

Breach poster

Breach

EN · 20076.6

as D.I.A. Suit

Candles on Bay Street poster

Candles on Bay Street

EN · 20066.1

as Rick

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story poster

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story

EN · 20055.4

as Clive Jackson

Girls Aloud: What Will the Neighbours Say? Live in Concert poster

Girls Aloud: What Will the Neighbours Say? Live in Concert

EN · 2005Not rated

Director

Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story poster

Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story

EN · 20025.8

as Detective Sgt. Preston

Jason X poster

Jason X

EN · 20014.9

as Professor Lowe

Sex & Mrs. X poster

Sex & Mrs. X

EN · 20006.0

as Rick Stockwell

Cruel Intentions 2 poster

Cruel Intentions 2

EN · 20005.1

as Assistant Headmaster Steve Muller

The Jesse Ventura Story poster

The Jesse Ventura Story

EN · 19994.5

as Dean

Resurrection poster

Resurrection

EN · 19996.1

as Det. Moltz

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion poster

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

EN · 19996.7

as Sam

Balls Up poster

Balls Up

EN · 19973.3

as Ken

When Innocence Is Lost poster

When Innocence Is Lost

EN · 19976.8

as Peter Hess

Lethal Tender poster

Lethal Tender

EN · 19974.2

as Pogo

Color of Justice poster

Color of Justice

EN · 19975.2

as D.A. Trainee

Butterbox Babies

1995

Butterbox Babies

EN · 19955.7

as Lester Wilson

When Night Is Falling poster

When Night Is Falling

EN · 19956.3

as Hang Glider #1

The Counterfeit Contessa poster

The Counterfeit Contessa

EN · 19945.8

as Floyd

Body Count poster

Body Count

EN · 1986Not rated

as Paul Carter