Jan Peszek (born 13 February 1944) is a Polish theatre, film, and television actor.

[1] Although primarily involved in theatre work, he has appeared in more than sixty films since 1970.

In 1966 he finished his education in the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, and made his debut the same year in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui staged at the Polish Theatre in Wrocław.

[2] In 1969 he got cast in his first film role in Andrzej Piotrowski's Znaki na drodze.

He has strongly criticised the conservative Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party and the affiliated TVP television network.