# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-purefoy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:36:13.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-purefoy"
name: "James Purefoy"
slug: "james-purefoy"
description: "James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the hit Fox thriller 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, 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 the upcoming V for Vendetta TV series."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JamesPurefoy09TIFF.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.213790527765458
  historical:           27.26789466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump