James Purefoy
Acting

James Purefoy

Born 3 June 1964 · Taunton, England, UK
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James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, Solomon Kane in the film of the same name, and Hap Collins in the Sundance series Hap and Leonard. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the second season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches". In 2018, he starred as Laurens Bancroft in the first season of Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series. Following an uncredited role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta (replaced and dubbed over by Hugo Weaving), he was cast in a main role as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy / Captain Blighty in the 2020–2021 second and 2022 third season of the television series Pennyworth, the prequel to both Gotham and V for Vendetta. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Purefoy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Sex Education
Resident Evil
The Witcher
John Carter
A Knight's Tale
Altered Carbon
Masters of the Universe
Rome
Solomon Kane
High-Rise
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
A Discovery of Witches
Masters of the Universe
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Fisherman's Friends
Limbo
It's Me, Sugar
Churchill
Interlude in Prague
Equity
High-Rise
Momentum
Wicked Blood
John Carter
Ironclad
Solomon Kane
Diamonds
Frankenstein
Manchild
Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
Goose on the Loose
George and the Dragon
Blessed
Vanity Fair
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Resident Evil
Women Talking Dirty
A Knight's Tale
Tomorrow
The Wedding Tackle
Lighthouse
Maybe Baby
Don Quixote
Mansfield Park
Jilting Joe
Bedrooms and Hallways
Bright Hair
Sharpe's Sword
Feast of July
One Night Stand
Angels
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