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James Purefoy

Acting

Born June 3, 1964 · Taunton, England, UK

Also known as Τζέιμς Πιούρφοϊ · James Brian Mark Purefoy · Джеймс Пьюрфой

Biography

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.

Filmography50+ titles

The Prince and the Pauper

as Miles Hendon

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

2016as Amulet (voice)

Sex Education

2019as Remi Milburn

Rome

2005as Mark Antony

Sherlock Holmes

1984as James McCarthy

John Mulaney: New in Town

2012as Miles Hendon

Sharpe

1993as Jack Spears

The Tide of Life

as Nick Stuart

Pennyworth

2019as Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy

The Witcher

2019as Skellen

A Discovery of Witches

2018as Philippe de Clermont

Altered Carbon

2018as Laurens Bancroft

Revenge

2011as Dominik Wright

Marie Antoinette

2022as Louis XV

The Recruit

2022as Oliver Bonner-Jones

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

2021as Additional Voices (voice)

The Hollow Crown

2012as Thomas of Mowbray

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

as Mr Frederick Lawrence

The Faithful

2026as Laban

The Mayor of Casterbridge

2003as Donald Farfrae

Episodes

2011as Rob

Injustice

as William Travers

Outrageous

2025as David Freeman-Mitford

Malpractice

2023as Dr. Leo Harris

The Mayor of Casterbridge

as Donald Farfrae

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

2023as Rick Eden

No Man's Land

2020as Stanley

El Candidato

2020as Wayne Addison

Hap and Leonard

2016as Hap Collins

Roots

2016as John Waller

The Following

2013as Joe Carroll

A Knight's Tale

2001as Colville

Land of Women

2024as Fred

Fisherman's Friends

2019as Jim

Resident Evil

2002as Spence

Mansfield Park

1999as Tom Bertram

The Veil

2024as Michael Althorp

Fisherman's Friends: One and All

2022as Jim

John Carter

2012as Kantos Kan

Camelot

2011as King Lot

Churchill

2017as King George VI

Ironclad

2011as Thomas Marshall

Bedrooms and Hallways

1998as Brendan

Solomon Kane

2009as Solomon Kane

Interlude in Prague

2017as Baron Saloka

Vanity Fair

2004as Rawdon Crawley

Momentum

2015as Mr. Washington

Equity

2016as Michael Connor

High-Rise

2015as Pangbourne

The Summit

as Thom Lightstone