1964 - Today
James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Purefoy has received more than 5,860,559 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). James Purefoy is the 2,220th most popular actor (down from 1,851st in 2019), the 2,107th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,896th in 2019) and the 289th most popular British Actor.
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Among actors, James Purefoy ranks 2,220 out of 9,996. Before him are Paul Freeman, Keir Dullea, Randall Duk Kim, Mayumi Tanaka, June Whitfield, and Kathleen Freeman. After him are Evelyn Nesbit, Tuesday Weld, James Rebhorn, Ron Silver, M. Emmet Walsh, and Jana Brejchová.
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 2,214
1936 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 2,215
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 2,216
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 2,217
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,218
1919 - 2001
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,219
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,220
1884 - 1967
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 2,221
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 2,222
1948 - 2014
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 2,223
1946 - 2009
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 2,224
1935 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 2,225
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 2,226
Among people born in 1964, James Purefoy ranks 106. Before him are Paco Tous, Sertab Erener, Mariska Hargitay, Gore Verbinski, Txiki Begiristain, and Oleh Protasov. After him are Jean-Marc Bosman, Kaspar Capparoni, Sandro Rosell, Rudi Garcia, Anne Applebaum, and Hank Azaria.
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 100
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 101
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 102
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 103
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 104
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 105
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 106
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 107
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 108
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 109
1964 - Present
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 110
1964 - Present
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 111
1964 - Present
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 112
Among people born in United Kingdom, James Purefoy ranks 2,107 out of 7,765. Before him are Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), Albert Austin (1881), Paul Freeman (1943), David Gemmell (1948), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), and June Whitfield (1925). After him are Richard Wilson (1714), William Aiton (1731), Guy Edwards (1942), Mark Williams (1959), Thomas Wright (1711), and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462).
1886 - 1960
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 2,101
1881 - 1953
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 2,102
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 2,103
1948 - 2006
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 2,104
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,105
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,106
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,107
1714 - 1782
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,108
1731 - 1793
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 2,109
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 2,110
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 2,111
1711 - 1786
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 2,112
1462 - 1487
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 2,113
Among actors born in United Kingdom, James Purefoy ranks 289. Before him are Susannah York (1939), Kit Harington (1986), John Thaw (1942), Albert Austin (1881), Paul Freeman (1943), and June Whitfield (1925). After him are Mark Williams (1959), Barbara Steele (1937), Joseph Fiennes (1970), Tom Hollander (1967), George Arliss (1868), and Stephen Dillane (1957).
1939 - 2011
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 283
1986 - Present
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 284
1942 - 2002
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 285
1881 - 1953
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 286
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 287
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 288
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 289
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 290
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 291
1970 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 292
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 293
1868 - 1946
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 294
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 295