
James Purefoy
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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.
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Credits

Masters of the Universe (2026)
as King Randor

John Carter (2012)
as Kantos Kan

A Knight's Tale (2001)
as Colville

Resident Evil (2002)
as Spence

Solomon Kane (2009)
as Solomon Kane

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
as Additional Voices (voice)

Ironclad (2011)
as Thomas Marshall

High-Rise (2015)
as Pangbourne

Vanity Fair (2004)
as Rawdon Crawley

Mansfield Park (1999)
as Tom Bertram

Momentum (2015)
as Mr. Washington

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023)
as Rick Eden

Fisherman's Friends (2019)
as Jim

George and the Dragon (2004)
as George
Legacy (2024)
as Le père

Women Talking Dirty (2001)
as Daniel

Blessed (2004)
as Craig Howard

Churchill (2017)
as King George VI

Sharpe's Sword (1995)
as Captain the Lord Jack Spears

Interlude in Prague (2017)
as Baron Saloka

Wicked Blood (2014)
as 'Wild' Bill Owens

It's Me, Sugar (2018)
as Billy Wilder
Lena: The Bride of Ice (2008)
as Dr. Harper

Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
as Jim

Equity (2016)
as Michael Connor

Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006)
as Beau Brummell

Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
as Brendan

Don Quixote (2000)
as Carrasco

Maybe Baby (2000)
as Carl Phipps

The Wedding Tackle (2000)
as Hal

Manchild (2007)
as Joe

Frankenstein (2007)
as Clerval

Limbo (2019)
as Lucifer

The Cloning of Joanna May (1992)
as Oliver

Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (2025)
as Narrator

Feast of July (1995)
as Jedd Wainwright

The Making of Resident Evil (2002)
as Self

The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
as Donald Farfrae

Lighthouse (2000)
as Richard Spader

Goose on the Loose (2006)
as Kenneth Donnelly
Photo Finish (2004)
as James Wise

Bright Hair (1997)
as David Miles

All Hail the Popcorn King! (2019)
as Self

One Night Stand (1994)
as John
Jilting Joe (1998)
as Joe

Angels (1992)
as Victor

Tomorrow (2001)
as Andrew Spender

Diamonds (2009)
as Lucas Denmont





