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James Purefoy

(1964) Actor United Kingdom

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James Purefoy is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Resident Evil (Deluxe Edition).

Quick Facts About James Purefoy

Born: June 3, 1964
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Resident Evil (Deluxe Edition)
Known for: Solomon Kane
Spouse: Holly Aird

About James Purefoy

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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by James Purefoy · Page 2

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

Community

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As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no…

Escape

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Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time ,…

Acting

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Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

Call

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One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are…

Crackpots

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I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and…

Jobs

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Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy,…

Casual

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Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character…

Character

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You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

Cable

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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

Irritating

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Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting…

Absurd

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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and…

Brick wall

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The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

Accent

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Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

Acting

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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

Actor

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My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get…

Find

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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different…

Actor

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If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that…

Around

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There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously,…

Few

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I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

Big

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I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

Doing

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I think, as an actor, I would find it a little run-of-the-mill doing procedurals where it's the same sort of thing week…

Actor

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Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.

Burn

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When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

Acting

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Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

Lovely

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