login

Home > Actors > JAMES PUREFOY

JAMES PUREFOY

Actor
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 Leonar...
BORN June 3, 1964
📐
HEIGHT 6'4" (1.93 m)
🌍
NATIONALITY British
🔥
YEARS ACTIVE 1984 – Present
JAMES PUREFOY

🏆 AWARDS & ACCOLADES

🏆
2027
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Lead Performance (Masters of the Universe)

WINNER
🏆
2020
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture (Sex Education)

WINNER
🏆
2020
BAFTA FILM AWARDS

Outstanding Cinematic Achievement (The Witcher)

WINNER
🏆
2012
CRITICS' CHOICE

Best Performance (Revenge)

WINNER

👤 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.

🗉 QUICK FACTS

  • Nick Name James Brian Mark Purefoy
  • Born June 3, 1964
  • Height 6'4" (1.93 m)
  • Nationality British
  • Citizenship British
  • Education Studied Dramatic Arts / Private performance training
  • Current Status Active (Recently in Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain, Masters of the Universe)
  • Years Active 1984 – Present
  • Occupation Actor
  • Family Background Private Family Background
  • Early Career Began active theatrical and commercial performances in early adulthood.
  • Partner Private
  • Children N/A
  • Social

🎬 FILMOGRAPHY

VIEW ALL