James Purefoy
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 (90 titles)
6.9MovieMasters of the Universe
King Randor · 2026
7.2ShowThe Faithful
Laban · 2026
6.9ShowOutrageous
David Freeman-Mitford · 2025
10.0MovieHumphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Narrator · 2025
5.8ShowSaint-Pierre
Sean Gallagher · 2025
Legacy
Le père · 2024
6.8ShowLand of Women
Fred · 2024
6.5ShowThe Veil
Sir Michael Althorp · 2024
6.8MovieMr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Rick Eden · 2023
7.0ShowMalpractice
Dr. Leo Harris · 2023
7.5ShowThe Recruit
Oliver Bonner-Jones · 2022
7.5ShowMarie Antoinette
Louis XV · 2022
6.5MovieFisherman's Friends: One and All
Jim · 2022
7.6MovieTrollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Additional Voices (voice) · 2021
6.9ShowNo Man's Land
Stanley · 2020
6.9ShowEl Candidato
Wayne Addison · 2020
7.9ShowThe Witcher
Skellen · 2019
5.3MovieLimbo
Lucifer · 2019
1.0MovieAll Hail the Popcorn King!
Self · 2019
7.8ShowPennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Captain Gulliver 'Gully' Troy · 2019
6.7MovieFisherman's Friends
Jim · 2019
8.2ShowSex Education
Remi Milburn · 2019
7.8ShowA Discovery of Witches
Philippe De Clermont · 2018
6.0MovieIt's Me, Sugar
Billy Wilder · 2018
7.6ShowAltered Carbon
Laurens Bancroft · 2018
6.2MovieChurchill
King George VI · 2017
5.8MovieInterlude in Prague
Baron Saloka · 2017
7.4ShowUrban Myths
Billy Wilder · 2017
8.5ShowTrollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Amulet (voice) · 2016
5.6MovieEquity
Michael Connor · 2016