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): Chuck Barris • Conon of Naso • Curtis Mayfield • Forbes Carlile • Jalen Suggs • Johan Jongkind • Memphis Minnie • Michael Clarke (musician) • Patrick Cargill • R. G. D. Allen • Ransom E. Olds

Born in the same month (June 1964): Cadillac Anderson • Dan Stains • Gary Suter • Jean Alesi • Johnny Herbert • Kate Parminter, Baroness Parminter • Mark Waters • Miroslav Kadlec • Nicolas Marceau • Patti Webster • Penny Ford • Steve Rhodes