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

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

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2019All Hail the Popcorn King! — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2002The Making of Resident Evil — Self