James Purefoy

Born

June 3, 1964

From

Taunton, England, UK

Also:
Producer

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In short · Acting since 1990, 4 decades active, 57 credits.

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Biography

James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor who has appeared in a variety of television and film roles. He portrayed Mark Antony in the HBO series *Rome*, Nick Jenkins in *A Dance to the Music of Time*, and Joe Carroll, a college professor turned serial killer, in *The Following*. He also played Solomon Kane in the film of the same name and Hap Collins in the Sundance series *Hap and Leonard*. Purefoy appeared as Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the second season of the 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. He had an uncredited role as V in the 2006 film *V for Vendetta* (replaced and dubbed over by Hugo Weaving), and was later cast in a main role as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy / Captain Blighty in the 2020–2021 second season and the 2022 third season of the television series *Pennyworth*, a prequel to both *Gotham* and *V for Vendetta*.

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