
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Purefoy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances

Resident Evil
as Spence Parks
2002

Frankenstein
as Clerval
2007

Mansfield Park
as Tom Bertram
1999

George and the Dragon
as George
2004

Blessed
as Craig Howard
2004

The Wedding Tackle
as Hal
2000

Vanity Fair
as Rawdon Crawley
2004

Solomon Kane
as Solomon Kane
2009

Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
as Beau Brummell
2006

Lighthouse
as Richard Spader
2000

Maybe Baby
as Carl Phipps
2000

Ironclad
as Thomas Marshall
2011

John Carter
as Kantos Kan
2012

Sharpe's Sword
as Captain the Lord Jack Spears
1995

Women Talking Dirty
as Daniel
2001

One Night Stand
as John
1994

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

Goose on the Loose
as Kenneth Donnelly
2006

The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Donald Farfrae
2003

Diamonds
as Lucas Denmont
2009
TV Appearances

Rome
as Mark Antony
2005

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
as Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy
2019

The Philanthropist
2009

A Dance to the Music of Time
as Nicholas Jenkins
1997

A Discovery of Witches
as Philippe De Clermont
2018
Diamonds
2009

The Summit
as Thom Lightstone
2008

The Following
as Joe Carroll
2013

Revenge
as Dominik Wright
2011

Injustice
as William Travers
2011

Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
2022

Malpractice
as Dr. Leo Harris
2023