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James Purefoy

James Purefoy

Birthday: 1964-06-03 | Place of Birth: Taunton, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Outrageous

as    David Freeman-Mitford

2023
Malpractice

as    Dr Leo Harris

2023
2020
No Man's Land

as    Stanley

2020
El Candidato

as    Wayne Addison

2019
Fisherman's Friends

as    Jim

2019
Limbo

as    Lucifer

2019
2018
It's Me, Sugar

as    Billy Wilder

2017
Interlude In Prague

as    Baron Saloka

2017
Churchill

as    King George VI

2016
Hap and Leonard

as    Hap Collins

2016
Equity

as    Michael Connor

2016
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
Solomon Kane

as    Solomon Kane

2011
Ironclad

as    Thomas Marshall

2011
Injustice

as    William Travers

2009
Diamonds

as    Lucas Denmont

2008
The Summit

as    Thom Lightstone