James Purefoy

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.

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Selected Filmography

• Sex Education(2019)TV Series · 5 epsas Remi Milburn
• The Witcher(2019)TV Series · 5 epsas Skellen
• Revenge(2011)TV Seriesas Dominik Wright
• The Following(2013)TV Series · 45 epsas Joe Carroll
• Sherlock Holmes(1984)TV Series · 1 epas James McCarthy
• Sharpe(1993)TV Series · 1 epas Jack Spears
• Altered Carbon(2018)TV Series · 10 epsas Laurens Bancroft
• Rome(2005)TV Series · 22 epsas Mark Antony
• Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia(2016)TV Series · 9 epsas Kanjigar / Amulet / Ghost Kanjigar
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon(2009)TV Series · 1 epas Self
• Camelot(2011)TV Series · 3 epsas King Lot
• A Discovery of Witches(2018)TV Series · 2 epsas Philippe de Clermont
• Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler(2019)TV Series · 10 epsas Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy
• A Knight's Tale(2001)as Colville
• The Recruit(2022)TV Series · 2 epsas Oliver Bonner-Jones
• John Carter(2012)as Kantos Kan
• Episodes(2011)TV Series · 4 epsas Rob
• The Hollow Crown(2012)TV Series · 1 epas Thomas of Mowbray
• Resident Evil(2002)as Spence
• Saint-Pierre(2025)TV Series · 22 epsas Sean Gallagher