Name
James Purefoy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1964-06-03 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Taunton, England, UK
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.
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- 2002 Resident Evil as Spence
- 2007 Frankenstein as Clerval
- 1999 Mansfield Park as Tom Bertram
- 2004 George and the Dragon as George
- 2004 Blessed as Craig Howard
- 2000 The Wedding Tackle as Hal
- 2004 Vanity Fair as Rawdon Crawley
- 2009 Solomon Kane as Solomon Kane
- 2006 Beau Brummell: This Charming Man as Beau Brummell
- 2000 Lighthouse as Richard Spader
- 2000 Maybe Baby as Carl Phipps
- 2011 Ironclad as Thomas Marshall
- 2012 John Carter as Kantos Kan
- 1995 Sharpe's Sword as Captain the Lord Jack Spears
- 2001 Women Talking Dirty as Daniel
- 1994 One Night Stand as John
- 2025 Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain as Narrator
- 2006 Goose on the Loose as Kenneth Donnelly
- 2003 The Mayor of Casterbridge as Donald Farfrae
- 2009 Diamonds as Lucas Denmont
- 2014 Wicked Blood as 'Wild' Bill Owens
- 2023 Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie as Rick Eden
- 2001 A Knight's Tale as Colville
- 1995 Feast of July as Jedd Wainwright
- 2015 High-Rise as Pangbourne
- 1997 Bright Hair as David Miles
- 2015 Momentum as Mr. Washington
- 2016 Equity as Michael Connor
- 2021 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans as Additional Voices (voice)
- 1998 Jilting Joe as Joe
- 2001 Tomorrow as Andrew Spender
- 1998 Bedrooms and Hallways as Brendan
- 2017 Churchill as King George VI
- 2008 Lena: The Bride of Ice as Dr. Harper
- 2017 Interlude in Prague as Baron Saloka
- 2019 Fisherman's Friends as Jim
- 1992 Angels as Victor
- 2019 All Hail the Popcorn King! as Self
- 2019 Limbo as Lucifer
- 2018 It's Me, Sugar as Billy Wilder
- 2022 Fisherman's Friends: One and All as Jim
- 2000 Don Quixote as Carrasco
- 2004 Photo Finish as James Wise
- 2026 Masters of the Universe as King Randor
- 2002 The Making of Resident Evil as Self
- 2007 Manchild as Joe
- 2024 Legacy as Le père
- 2022 Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
- 2005 Rome ( 22 episodes ) as Mark Antony
- 2019 Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler ( 10 episodes ) as Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy
- 2009 The Philanthropist ( 8 episodes )
- 1997 A Dance to the Music of Time ( 4 episodes ) as Nicholas Jenkins
- 2018 A Discovery of Witches ( 3 episodes ) as Philippe De Clermont
- 2009 Diamonds ( 2 episodes )
- 2008 The Summit ( 2 episodes ) as Thom Lightstone
- 2013 The Following ( 45 episodes ) as Joe Carroll
- 2011 Revenge ( 0 episode ) as Dominik Wright
- 2011 Injustice ( 5 episodes ) as William Travers
- 2022 Marie Antoinette ( 4 episodes ) as Louis XV
- 2023 Malpractice ( 5 episodes ) as Dr. Leo Harris
- 2016 Hap and Leonard ( 18 episodes ) as Hap Collins
- 2018 Altered Carbon ( 10 episodes ) as Laurens Bancroft
- 2011 Episodes ( 4 episodes ) as Rob
- 2006 Blackbeard ( 2 episodes ) as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
- 1984 Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as James McCarthy
- 1996 The Tide of Life ( 3 episodes ) as Nick Stuart
- 1994 Calling the Shots ( 2 episodes ) as Brian Summers
- 1995 Tears Before Bedtime ( 4 episodes ) as Jimmy Turner
- 2003 The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 2 episodes ) as Donald Farfrae
- 2017 Urban Myths ( 1 episode ) as Billy Wilder
- 2019 Sex Education ( 5 episodes ) as Remi Milburn
- 1996 The Prince and the Pauper ( 6 episodes ) as Miles Hendon
- 2012 The Hollow Crown ( 1 episode ) as Thomas of Mowbray
- 2024 The Veil ( 5 episodes ) as Sir Michael Althorp
- 2025 Saint-Pierre ( 22 episodes ) as Sean Gallagher
- 2020 El Candidato ( 10 episodes ) as Wayne Addison
- 2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Sharpe ( 1 episode ) as Jack Spears
- 2025 Outrageous ( 6 episodes ) as David Freeman-Mitford
- 2024 Land of Women ( 6 episodes ) as Fred
- 2018 A Discovery of Witches ( 2 episodes ) as Philippe de Clermont
- 2022 The Recruit ( 2 episodes ) as Oliver Bonner-Jones
- 2016 Roots ( 2 episodes ) as John Waller
- 1996 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 2 episodes ) as Mr Frederick Lawrence
- 2019 The Witcher ( 5 episodes ) as Skellen
- 2011 Camelot ( 3 episodes ) as King Lot
- 2024 The Veil ( 6 episodes ) as Michael Althorp
- 2026 The Faithful ( 2 episodes ) as Laban
- 2020 No Man's Land ( 8 episodes ) as Stanley
- 2007 British Film Forever ( 2 episodes )
- 1992 The Cloning of Joanna May ( 2 episodes ) as Oliver
- 1990 Coasting ( 7 episodes ) as Mike Baker
- 2000 Metropolis ( 6 episodes ) as Nathan
- 2016 Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia ( 9 episodes ) as Kanjigar / Amulet / Ghost Kanjigar
