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James Purefoy

1964 - Today

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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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  • 5.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Purefoy ranks 2,220 out of 9,996Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, James Purefoy ranks 106Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Purefoy ranks 2,107 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, James Purefoy ranks 289Before 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).

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