James Purefoy

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1964-06-03 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Taunton, England, UK

Also Known As Τζέιμς Πιούρφοϊ, James Brian Mark Purefoy, Джеймс Пьюрфой, Jame Purefoy, 제임스 퓨어포이, جیمز پیورفوی

James Purefoy

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.

Known For

Actor

Outrageous

as David Freeman-Mitford

2026
2025
Saint-Pierre

as Sean Gallagher

2024
2024
The Veil

as Sir Michael Althorp

2023
Malpractice

as Dr. Leo Harris

2022
The Recruit

as Oliver Bonner-Jones

2022
Marie Antoinette

as Louis XV

2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

as Additional Voices (voice)

2020
No Man's Land

as Stanley

2020
El Candidato

as Wayne Addison

2019
Limbo

as Lucifer

2019
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

as Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy

2019
Sex Education

as Remi Milburn

2018
It's Me, Sugar

as Billy Wilder

2018
A Discovery of Witches

as Philippe De Clermont

2018
A Discovery of Witches

as Philippe de Clermont

2018
Altered Carbon

as Laurens Bancroft

2017
Churchill

as King George VI

2017
Interlude In Prague

as Baron Saloka

2017
Urban Myths

as Billy Wilder

2016
Equity

as Michael Connor

2016
2016
Roots

as John Waller

2016
Hap and Leonard

as Hap Collins

2015
High-Rise

as Pangbourne

2015
Momentum

as Mr. Washington

2014
Wicked Blood

as 'Wild' Bill Owens

2013
The Following

as Joe Carroll

2012
John Carter

as Kantos Kan

2012
The Hollow Crown

as Thomas of Mowbray

2011
Ironclad

as Thomas Marshall

2011
Revenge

as Dominik Wright

2011
Injustice

as William Travers

2011
Camelot

as King Lot

2011
Episodes

as Rob

2009
Solomon Kane

as Solomon Kane

2009
Diamonds

as Lucas Denmont

2008
2008
The Summit

as Thom Lightstone

2007
Frankenstein

as Clerval

2006
Goose on the Loose

as Kenneth Donnelly

2006
Blackbeard

as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach

2005
Rome

as Mark Antony

2004
Photo Finish

as James Wise

2004
Vanity Fair

as Rawdon Crawley

2004
Blessed

as Craig Howard

2004
2003
The Mayor of Casterbridge

as Donald Farfrae

2003
The Mayor of Casterbridge

as Donald Farfrae

2002
Resident Evil

as Spence Parks

2001
2001
A Knight's Tale

as Colville

2001
Tomorrow

as Andrew Spender

2000
Maybe Baby

as Carl Phipps

2000
Don Quixote

as Carrasco

2000
Lighthouse

as Richard Spader

1999
Mansfield Park

as Tom Bertram

1998
1998
1997
Bright Hair

as David Miles

1997
A Dance to the Music of Time

as Nicholas Jenkins

1996
1996
1996
The Tide of Life

as Nick Stuart

1995
Feast of July

as Jedd Wainwright

1995
Sharpe's Sword

as Cpt. Jack Spears

1995
Tears Before Bedtime

as Jimmy Turner

1994
1994
Calling the Shots

as Brian Summers

1993
Sharpe

as Jack Spears

1992
Angels

as Victor

1984
Sherlock Holmes

as James McCarthy

Producer

2022
Fisherman's Friends: One and All

as Executive Producer