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 7,956,975 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Dominic Purcell is the 2,984th most popular actor (down from 1,234th in 2019), the 2,544th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dominic Purcells by language

Over the past year Dominic Purcell has had the most page views in the with 1,820,957 views, followed by French (135,974), and Spanish (115,614). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (201.29%), Spanish (197.25%), and Slovenian (183.52%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dominic Purcell ranks 2,984 out of 13,578. Before 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 85. Before 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 2,544 out of 8,785. Before 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).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Dominic Purcell ranks 359. Before 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).

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Television and Movie Roles

Prison Break
Lincoln Burrows
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
8.096 / 10
Blade: Trinity
Dracula / Drake
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed—The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him—the original vampire, Dracula.
Dec 8o 20045.856 / 10
Mission: Impossible II
Ulrich
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
May 24o 20006.124 / 10