James Purefoy
Acting • Born 1964-06-03
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.
Filmography
89 credits
Resident Evil
Movie • 2002
Spence Parks
Frankenstein
Movie • 2007
Clerval
Mansfield Park
Movie • 1999
Tom Bertram
George and the Dragon
Movie • 2004
George
Blessed
Movie • 2004
Craig Howard
The Wedding Tackle
Movie • 2000
Hal
Vanity Fair
Movie • 2004
Rawdon Crawley
Solomon Kane
Movie • 2009
Solomon Kane
Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
Movie • 2006
Beau Brummell
Lighthouse
Movie • 2000
Richard Spader
Maybe Baby
Movie • 2000
Carl Phipps
Ironclad
Movie • 2011
Thomas Marshall
John Carter
Movie • 2012
Kantos Kan
Sharpe's Sword
Movie • 1995
Cpt. Jack Spears
Women Talking Dirty
Movie • 2001
Daniel
One Night Stand
Movie • 1994
John
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Goose on the Loose
Movie • 2006
Kenneth Donnelly
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Movie • 2003
Donald Farfrae
Diamonds
Movie • 2009
Lucas Denmont
Wicked Blood
Movie • 2014
'Wild' Bill Owens
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Movie • 2023
Rick Eden
A Knight's Tale
Movie • 2001
Colville
Feast of July
Movie • 1995
Jedd Wainwright
High-Rise
Movie • 2015
Pangbourne
Bright Hair
Movie • 1997
David Miles
Momentum
Movie • 2015
Mr. Washington
Equity
Movie • 2016
Michael Connor
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie • 2021
Additional Voices (voice)
Jilting Joe
Movie • 1998
Joe
Tomorrow
Movie • 2001
Andrew Spender
Bedrooms and Hallways
Movie • 1998
Brendan
Churchill
Movie • 2017
King George VI
Lena: The Bride of Ice
Movie • 2008
Dr. Harper
The Cloning of Joanna May
Movie • 1992
Oliver
Interlude In Prague
Movie • 2017
Baron Saloka
Fisherman's Friends
Movie • 2019
Jim
Angels
Movie • 1992
Victor
All Hail the Popcorn King!
Movie • 2019
Self
Limbo
Movie • 2019
Lucifer
It's Me, Sugar
Movie • 2018
Billy Wilder
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Movie • 2022
Jim
Don Quixote
Movie • 2000
Carrasco
Photo Finish
Movie • 2004
James Wise
Masters of the Universe
Movie • 2026
King Randor
The Making of Resident Evil
Movie • 2002
Self
Manchild
Movie • 2007
Joe
Rome
TV • 2005
Mark Antony
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
TV • 2019
Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy
The Philanthropist
TV • 2009
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV • 1997
Nicholas Jenkins
A Discovery of Witches
TV • 2018
Philippe De Clermont
Diamonds
TV • 2009
The Summit
TV • 2008
Thom Lightstone
The Following
TV • 2013
Joe Carroll
Revenge
TV • 2011
Dominik Wright
Injustice
TV • 2011
William Travers
Marie Antoinette
TV • 2022
Louis XV
Malpractice
TV • 2023
Dr. Leo Harris
Hap and Leonard
TV • 2016
Hap Collins
Altered Carbon
TV • 2018
Laurens Bancroft
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
TV • 2016
Amulet (voice)
Episodes
TV • 2011
Rob
Blackbeard
TV • 2006
Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
James McCarthy
The Tide of Life
TV • 1996
Nick Stuart
Calling the Shots
TV • 1994
Brian Summers
Tears Before Bedtime
TV • 1995
Jimmy Turner
The Mayor of Casterbridge
TV • 2003
Donald Farfrae
Urban Myths
TV • 2017
Billy Wilder
Sex Education
TV • 2019
Remi Milburn
The Prince and the Pauper
TV • 1996
Miles Hendon
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Thomas of Mowbray
The Veil
TV • 2024
Sir Michael Althorp
Saint-Pierre
TV • 2025
Sean Gallagher
El Candidato
TV • 2020
Wayne Addison
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2009
Self
No Man's Land
TV • 2020
Stanley
Sharpe
TV • 1993
Jack Spears
Outrageous
TV • 2025
David Freeman-Mitford
Land of Women
TV • 2024
Fred
A Discovery of Witches
TV • 2018
Philippe de Clermont
The Recruit
TV • 2022
Oliver Bonner-Jones
Roots
TV • 2016
John Waller
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
TV • 1996
Mr Frederick Lawrence
The Witcher
TV • 2019
Skellen
Camelot
TV • 2011
King Lot
The Faithful
TV • 2026
Laban
The Veil
TV • 2024
Michael Althorp