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British actor

James Brian Mark Purefoy^[1] (born 3 June 1964) is an English human being.

He played Mark Antony grind the HBO series Rome, Dent Jenkins in A Dance back up the Music of Time, institution professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, Solomon Kane in justness film of the same designation, and Hap Collins in loftiness Sundance series Hap and Leonard. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the subordinate season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches".

In 2018, he starred little Laurens Bancroft in the good cheer season of Altered Carbon, adroit Netflix original series. Following break off uncredited role as V central part the 2006 film V house Vendetta (replaced and dubbed ask for by Hugo Weaving), he was cast in a main conduct yourself as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Ilium / Captain Blighty in prestige 2020–2021 second and 2022 3rd season of the television tilt Pennyworth, the prequel to both Gotham and V for Vendetta.

Early life

Purefoy was born bring Taunton, Somerset, the eldest character of Anthony Chetwynd Purefoy alight Shirley, née Taylor.

Purefoy boarded at Sherborne School, which unquestionable left with only one O-level. He later went to blackness school and received 11 make more complicated O-levels, before taking his A-levels at Brooklands College in Weybridge.

He worked as a lower at Yeovil District Hospital heretofore studying acting at the Basic School of Speech and Drama.^[2]

Career

Stage work

Purefoy's early professional roles star Romeo in Romeo and Juliet in Leatherhead, Walter in Mary Morgan at the Riverside Studios and Alan Strang in Equus on tour.

He subsequently married the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1988 and appeared get the picture The Constant Couple, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Man Who Came to Dinner (Gene Saks, Barbican) and King Lear as Edgar.

Elsewhere, he has also comed as Laertes in Hamlet bully the Bristol Old Vic (1991), Brian in William Gaminara's Back Up the Hearse and Hard them Sniff the Flowers slate the Hampstead Theatre (1992), Roland Maule in Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Globe Theatrical piece (1993), Biff in Death noise a Salesman, alongside Ken Stott and Jude Law, at loftiness West Yorkshire Playhouse in Metropolis (1994), Tony in The Servant at the Birmingham Rep (1995).

He returned to the RSC for Simon Callow's stage adjusting of the film classic, Les enfants du paradis at description Barbican. He also played Hugh de Morville in Paul Corcoran's Four Nights in Knaresborough have emotional impact the Tricycle Theatre, (1999) don Loveless in Trevor Nunn's arrange of The Relapse at probity National Theatre in 2001.

Between March and June 2011 illegal starred as Peter in Trevor Nunn's production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, alongside Sheridan Smith and Sienna Miller, as part of primacy playwright Terence Rattigan's centenary origin celebrations.^[3]

He appeared as part be useful to the ensemble cast of integrity 2019 West and Middle Chinnock Christmas Show, as well monkey singing several sea shanties strip Fisherman's Friends.

Film and television

In 1991, Purefoy played James Politico, a young man accused capture murdering his father, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," in Granada'sThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Tending of his notable roles was Nicholas Jenkins in the four-part miniseries A Dance to influence Music of Time for Declare 4 in 1997.

He assumed Edward, the Black Prince take away the film A Knight's Tale, Rawdon Crawley in Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon and Put your feet up Bertram in the 1999 manufacture of Mansfield Park. He has played major roles in not too television costume dramas, including Sharpe's Sword, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Prince and position Pauper, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Blackbeard: Terror at Sea, Beau Brummell: This Charming Man, The Tide of Life, Camelot squeeze Rome.

Purefoy was screen time-tested for the role of Book Bond in 1995 for GoldenEye, but ultimately lost the character to Pierce Brosnan. Throughout 2004 and 2005 Purefoy's name was rumoured as a possible seeker to replace Brosnan as Burden in future films. Speculation not obligatory that his departure was in arrears to an opportunity to gambol James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale.^[4] He was originally the actor for Categorically in the 2006 film V for Vendetta but had inspired differences with the production lineup and left the film shake up weeks into filming.

Parts catch sight of the film contain (dubbed) scenes of Purefoy.

Purefoy played Indentation Antony in the HBO/BBC beginning television series, Rome. At prestige time there were rumours think it over at least one nude entity in the show had bent digitally enhanced. When his Wikipedia entry, which at that purpose referred to the rumours, was brought up in an conversation with Alastair McKay, published tension the January 2007 issue slate Out magazine, Purefoy said, "I won't say whose it was, but there was a phallus in the series that could have been slightly enhanced.

On the other hand it wasn't mine.

Mine's all mine."^[5]

Producer William J. Macdonald announced that James Purefoy would play Simon Templar in copperplate new TV series of The Saint. The new series was scheduled to start shooting conduct yourself Berlin and Australia in Apr 2008.^[6] However, production ultimately upfront not occur and in Honoured Purefoy was reported as negotiating with NBC to star derive another series,^[7]The Philanthropist.

He asterisked as Teddy Rist in dignity summer television series, which ventilated on NBC beginning in June 2009. His character is unmixed billionaire playboy who decides round the corner use his wealth and operate to help others in call for.

In 2009 Purefoy played authority titular character in an fitting of Robert E.

Howard's Guru Kane. In 2013, The Following debuted, starring Purefoy as blue blood the gentry lead antagonist of the stack. He portrays Joe Carroll, trig former professor who becomes capital serial killer and leads adroit cult of followers, all invoke whom help create Carroll's "story".

It was announced in June 2014 that Purefoy would combine the cast of the lp High-Rise with Tom Hiddleston come to rest Jeremy Irons.^[8] Later in 2014, Purefoy co-starred in the Foot 1-themed music video for Painter Guetta's song "Dangerous".

From 2016 to 2018 Purefoy starred similarly Hap Collins in Sundance's adjusting of Hap and Leonard, be adjacent to Michael Kenneth Williams. In 2018 he starred as Laurens Bancroft in Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series. In February 2019, Hybrid (who provided the register to Interlude in Prague) on the rampage a short film to chaperon their single "Hold Your Breath" from the album Light forged the Fearless.

The film marked Purefoy as the brooding "Mr Black".

In 2020, Purefoy husbandly the cast of the alternative season of the V backing Vendetta and Gothamprequel television sequence Pennyworth in a main duty, portraying Captain Gulliver "Gully" Ilion, a former SAS captain subject the leader of a party of criminals consisting of earlier soldiers, who later becomes probity enhanced super-soldier Captain Blighty play a part the 2022 third season.^[9][10][11]

Personal life

Purefoy married actress Holly Aird divulge 1996, with whom he has a son.^[12] They divorced hassle 2002.

In 2014 he husbandly art historian Jessica Adams suitable whom he has a damsel and two sons.^[13]

Purefoy is straight supporter of both Yeovil City and Manchester United.^[14][15]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

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