James Purefoy
Birthday
1964/06/03 (60 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Taunton, England, UK
Also know as
Τζέιμς Πιούρφοϊ, James Brian Mark Purefoy, Джеймс Пьюрфой, Jame Purefoy, 제임스 퓨어포이
Biography
James Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Marc Antony in the HBO series Rome, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, and Solomon Kane in the film of the same name. In February 2018 he starred as Laurens Bancroft in Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series. He played James McCarthy, a young man accused of murdering his father, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," in Granada's The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. One of his notable roles w...Read more
Acting
(2002) Resident Evil
as Spence Parks
(2007) Frankenstein
as Clerval
(1999) Mansfield Park
as Tom Bertram
(2004) George and the Dragon
as George
(2004) Blessed
as Craig Howard
(2000) The Wedding Tackle
as Hal
(2004) Vanity Fair
as Rawdon Crawley
(2009) Solomon Kane
as Solomon Kane
(2006) Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
as Beau Brummell
(2000) Lighthouse
as Richard Spader
(2000) Maybe Baby
as Carl Phipps
(2011) Ironclad
as Thomas Marshall
(2012) John Carter
as Kantos Kan
(1995) Sharpe's Sword
as Cpt. Jack Spears
(2001) Women Talking Dirty
as Daniel
(1994) One Night Stand
as John
(2000) Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
as Narrator
(2006) Goose on the Loose
as Kenneth Donnelly
(2003) The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Donald Farfrae
(2009) Diamonds
as Lucas Denmont
(2014) Wicked Blood
as 'Wild' Bill Owens
(2023) Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
as Rick Eden
(2001) A Knight's Tale
as Colville
(1995) Feast of July
as Jedd Wainwright
(2015) High-Rise
as Pangbourne
(1997) Bright Hair
as David Miles
(2015) Momentum
as Mr. Washington
(2016) Equity
as Michael Connor
(2021) Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Additional Voices (voice)
(1998) Jilting Joe
as Joe
(2001) Tomorrow
as Andrew Spender
(1998) Bedrooms and Hallways
as Brendan
(2017) Churchill
as King George VI
(2008) Lena: The Bride of Ice
as Dr. Harper
(1992) The Cloning of Joanna May
as Oliver
(2017) Interlude In Prague
as Baron Saloka
(2019) Fisherman's Friends
as Jim
(1992) Angels
as Victor
(2019) All Hail the Popcorn King!
as Self
(2019) Limbo
as Lucifer
(2018) It's Me, Sugar
as Billy Wilder
(2022) Fisherman's Friends: One and All
as Jim
(2000) Don Quixote
as Carrasco
(2004) Photo Finish
as James Wise
(2005) Rome
as Mark Antony
(2019) Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
as Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy
(2009) The Philanthropist
as ---
(1997) A Dance to the Music of Time
as Nicholas Jenkins
(2018) A Discovery of Witches
as Philippe De Clermont
(2009) Diamonds
as ---
(2008) The Summit
as Thom Lightstone
(2013) The Following
as Joe Carroll
(2011) Revenge
as Dominik Wright
(1996) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Mr. Lawrence
(2011) Injustice
as William Travers
(2022) Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
(2023) Malpractice
as Dr. Leo Harris
(2011) Camelot
as King Lot
(2016) Hap and Leonard
as Hap Collins
(2016) Roots
as John Waller
(2011) Camelot
as ---
(2018) Altered Carbon
as Laurens Bancroft
(2016) Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
as Amulet (voice)
(2011) Episodes
as Rob
(2006) Blackbeard
as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
(1984) Sherlock Holmes
as James McCarthy
(1996) The Tide of Life
as Nick Stuart
(1994) Calling the Shots
as Brian Summers
(1995) Tears Before Bedtime
as Jimmy Turner
(2003) The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Donald Farfrae
(2017) Urban Myths
as Billy Wilder
(2019) Sex Education
as Remi Milburn
(1996) The Prince and the Pauper
as Miles Hendon
(2012) The Hollow Crown
as Thomas of Mowbray
(2024) The Veil
as Sir Michael Althorp
(2025) Saint-Pierre
as Sean Gallagher
(2020) El Candidato
as Wayne Addison
(2009) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self
(2020) No Man's Land
as Stanley
(1993) Sharpe
as Jack Spears
Outrageous
as David Freeman-Mitford
(2024) Land of Women
as Fred
(2018) A Discovery of Witches
as Philippe de Clermont