Education
In summer 1989, he finished his lectures at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and joined Divadlo na Vinohradech.
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 performed major characters in several plays. 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
He is currently a prominent member of the Kašpar theatre company that performs in the Divadlo v Celetné, Prague.