Acting
Jul 16, 1964
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Potts
Acting
Biography
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).
Feature Films (32)
Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium—the strangest, most fantastic and most wonderful toy store in the world. After Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!
Jason X
Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concerns. As he starts building, he is blindsided by the bureaucratic codes and officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill, Craig fights back. Based on a true story.
Still Mine
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the torso of her missing husband, John, Evelyn is arrested for his murder.
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
Follow the nonstop adventures as Link and Princess Zelda fight monsters ghosts icky creatures and even each other as they try to save Hyrule and the last piece of the Triforce from the evils of Ganon. Re-released version of "The Legend of Zelda" TV series.
The Legend of Zelda: The Power of the Triforce
Television & Series (36)
Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
The Twilight Zone
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.
Forever Knight
Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.
