James Brian Mark Purefoy was born on 3 June 1964 and is an English actor.
20 Facts About James Purefoy
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James Purefoy 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.
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James Purefoy was born in Somerset and attended Sherborne School before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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James Purefoy boarded at Sherborne School, which he left with only one O-level.
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James Purefoy later went to night school and received 11 more O-levels, before taking his A-levels at Brooklands College in Weybridge.
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James Purefoy worked as a porter at Yeovil District Hospital before studying acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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James Purefoy subsequently joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988 and appeared in The Constant Couple, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Man Who Came to Dinner and King Lear as Edgar.
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James Purefoy returned to the RSC for Simon Callow's stage adaptation of the film classic, Les enfants du paradis at the Barbican.
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James Purefoy played Hugh de Morville in Paul Corcoran's Four Nights in Knaresborough at the Tricycle Theatre, and Loveless in Trevor Nunn's production of The Relapse at the National Theatre in 2001.
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James Purefoy appeared as part of the ensemble cast of the 2019 West and Middle Chinnock Christmas Show, as well as singing several sea shanties from Fisherman's Friends.
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James Purefoy played Edward, the Black Prince in the film A Knight's Tale, Rawdon Crawley in Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Bertram in the 1999 production of Mansfield Park.
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James Purefoy was originally the actor for V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta but had creative differences with the production team and left the film six weeks into filming.
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James Purefoy starred as Teddy Rist in the summer television series, which aired on NBC beginning in June 2009.
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James Purefoy's character is a billionaire playboy who decides to use his wealth and power to help others in need.
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In 2009 Purefoy played the titular character in an adaptation of Robert E Howard's Solomon Kane.
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James Purefoy portrays Joe Carroll, a former professor who becomes a serial killer and leads a cult of followers, all of whom help create Carroll's "story".
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Later in 2014, James Purefoy co-starred in the Formula 1-themed music video for David Guetta's song "Dangerous".
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From 2016 to 2018 James Purefoy starred as Hap Collins in Sundance's adaptation of Hap and Leonard, alongside Michael Kenneth Williams.
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In 2020, James Purefoy joined the cast of the second season of the V for Vendetta and Gotham prequel television series Pennyworth in a main role, portraying Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy, a former SAS captain and the leader of a crew of criminals consisting of former soldiers, who later becomes the enhanced super-soldier Captain Blighty in the 2022 third season.
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James Purefoy is a supporter of both Yeovil Town and Manchester United.