ACTOR

Dominic Purcell

1970 - Today

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Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born 17 February 1970) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Lincoln Burrows in Fox's Prison Break (2005–2009; 2017), Mick Rory / Heat Wave in The CW's The Flash (2014–2016) and Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2021), as well as Drake / Dracula in Blade: Trinity (2004). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dominic Purcell has received more than 9,090,236 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Dominic Purcell is the 2,986th most popular actor (down from 1,234th in 2019), the 2,545th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,333rd in 2019) and the 359th most popular British Actor.

Dominic Purcell is most famous for his role as Lincoln Burrows on the TV show Prison Break.

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  • 9.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.03

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dominic Purcell ranks 2,986 out of 13,578Before him are Andréa Parisy, August Schellenberg, Rolf Hoppe, Dick Miller, Akio Ōtsuka, and Bo Hopkins. After him are Takehito Koyasu, Steven Hill, Lauren Cohan, Hande Erçel, Isla Fisher, and Brooke Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Dominic Purcell ranks 85Before him are Sonny Anderson, Gareth Southgate, Minnie Driver, Vadim Krasnoselsky, Warwick Davis, and Anna Gavalda. After him are Maribel Verdú, Kim Hye-soo, Shemar Moore, Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Jim Courier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dominic Purcell ranks 2,545 out of 8,785Before him are Edwin Arnold (1832), Gordon Jackson (1923), Barry Jackson (1938), Leslie Stephen (1832), John Thaw (1942), and Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928). After him are Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Edith Durham (1863), Blanche of England (1392), Philip Stone (1924), Simon Le Bon (1958), and George Gissing (1857).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Dominic Purcell ranks 359Before him are Minnie Driver (1970), Jane Asher (1946), Warwick Davis (1970), Gordon Jackson (1923), Barry Jackson (1938), and John Thaw (1942). After him are Philip Stone (1924), Freddie Highmore (1992), Ben Miller (1966), Flora Finch (1867), Edmund Gwenn (1877), and Jon Finch (1942).