James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the hit Fox thriller 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, 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 the upcoming V for Vendetta tv series.
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🎬 Movies
Masters of the Universe
actor
2026
Legacy
actor
2024
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
actor
2023
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
actor
2022
Limbo
actor
2019
Fisherman's Friends
actor
2019
Interlude in Prague
actor
2017
Churchill
actor
2017
Equity
actor
2016
High-Rise
actor
2015
Momentum
actor
2015
Wicked Blood
actor
2014
John Carter
actor
2012
Ironclad
actor
2011
Solomon Kane
actor
2009
Diamonds
actor
2009
Frankenstein
actor
2007
Vanity Fair
actor
2004
Blessed
actor
2004
George and the Dragon
actor
2004
Resident Evil
actor
2002
A Knight's Tale
actor
2001
Tomorrow
actor
2001
Maybe Baby
actor
2000
Don Quixote
actor
2000
Mansfield Park
actor
1999
Bedrooms and Hallways
actor
1998
Feast of July
actor
1995
Sharpe's Sword
actor
1995
The Cloning of Joanna May
actor
1992
📺 TV Shows
The Faithful: Women of the Bible
actor
2026
Outrageous
actor
2025
Malpractice
actor
2023
Marie-Antoinette
actor
2022
No Man's Land
actor
2020
El Candidato
actor
2020
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
actor
2019
Altered Carbon
actor
2018
Roots
actor
2016
The Wine Show
actor
2016
Hap and Leonard
actor
2016
The Following
actor
2013
Injustice
actor
2011
The Philanthropist
actor
2009
The Summit
actor
2008
Rome
actor
2005
The Mayor of Casterbridge
actor
2003
A Dance to the Music of Time
actor
1997