James Purefoy

James Brian Mark Purefoy 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. 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 V for Vendetta.

3 June 1964

Born on the same birth date (3 June 1964): Kerry King

Born on the same birth day (3 June): Baburao Painter • Bill Paterson (actor) • Charles R. Drew • David Gregory (mathematician) • Deniece Williams • Eddie Acuff • George Broadhurst • Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici • Harrison Bader • Jan Peerce • Jeff Colyer • Johan Jongkind • John Hale (minister) • Josephine Baker • Magdalene Thoresen • Manuel Belgrano • Mikhail Larionov • Papiss Cissé • Rafael Nadal • Raoul Dufy • Theodore Robinson

Born in the same month (June 1964): Brent Goulet • Christina Ashcroft • Chuck Person • Dimitris Papaioannou • Doug Savant • Joss Whedon • Kim Gallagher • Lisa Cholodenko • Miroslav Kadlec • Patti Webster • Penny Ford • Pierfrancesco Chili • Rick Riordan • Sean Pertwee • Uday Hussein • Wayman Tisdale • Šarūnas Marčiulionis