James Purefoy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1964-06-03 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Taunton, England, UK

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 dubbe...

Acting

2002

Resident Evil

as Spence Parks

2007

Frankenstein

as Clerval

1999

Mansfield Park

as Tom Bertram

2004

Blessed

as Craig Howard

2004

Vanity Fair

as Rawdon Crawley

2009

Solomon Kane

as Solomon Kane

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 Cpt. Jack Spears

2001

1994

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

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

2001

Tomorrow

as Andrew Spender

1998

2017

Churchill

as King George VI

2008

2017

Interlude In Prague

as Baron Saloka

1992

Angels

as Victor

2019

Limbo

as Lucifer

2018

It's Me, Sugar

as Billy Wilder

2000

Don Quixote

as Carrasco

2004

Photo Finish

as James Wise

2026

Production

2022

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