
James Purefoy
Acting
Born 1964-06-03 · 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.
Known for

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
2016 · TV

The Following
2013 · TV

Rome
2005 · TV

Saint-Pierre
2025 · TV

Hap and Leonard
2016 · TV

Altered Carbon
2018 · TV

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019 · TV

El Candidato
2020 · TV

The Witcher
2019 · TV

No Man's Land
2020 · TV

The Philanthropist
2009 · TV

Sex Education
2019 · TV

The Prince and the Pauper
1996 · TV

Outrageous
2025 · TV

Land of Women
2024 · TV

Injustice
2011 · TV

Malpractice
2023 · TV

The Veil
2024 · TV

Episodes
2011 · TV

Marie Antoinette
2022 · TV

A Discovery of Witches
2018 · TV

A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 · TV

The Tide of Life
1996 · TV

Camelot
2011 · TV

The Recruit
2022 · TV

Calling the Shots
1994 · TV

The Faithful
2026 · TV

Roots
2016 · TV

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996 · TV

The Mayor of Casterbridge
2003 · TV

Blackbeard
2006 · TV

The Summit
2008 · TV

Sherlock Holmes
1984 · TV

The Hollow Crown
2012 · TV

Sharpe
1993 · TV

Urban Myths
2017 · TV

Revenge
2011 · TV

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · TV