
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.
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Acting (42 movies)

Resident Evil
2002

Frankenstein
2007

Mansfield Park
1999

George and the Dragon
2004

Blessed
2004

The Wedding Tackle
2000

Vanity Fair
2004

Solomon Kane
2009

Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
2006

Lighthouse
2000

Maybe Baby
2000

Ironclad
2011

John Carter
2012

Sharpe's Sword
1995

Women Talking Dirty
2001

One Night Stand
1994

Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2025

Goose on the Loose
2006

The Mayor of Casterbridge
2003

Wicked Blood
2014

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
2023

A Knight's Tale
2001

Feast of July
1995

High-Rise
2015

Bright Hair
1997

Momentum
2015

Equity
2016

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
2021

Tomorrow
2001

Bedrooms and Hallways
1998

Churchill
2017

The Cloning of Joanna May
1992

Interlude In Prague
2017

Fisherman's Friends
2019

Angels
1992

All Hail the Popcorn King!
2019

Limbo
2019

It's Me, Sugar
2018

Fisherman's Friends: One and All
2022

Don Quixote
2000

Masters of the Universe
2026

The Making of Resident Evil
2002
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Fisherman's Friends: One and All | 2022 | Executive Producer |