ACTOR

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. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the second season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Purefoy has received more than 6,280,456 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 30 in 2019). James Purefoy is the 3,547th most popular actor (down from 2,217th in 2019), the 2,898th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,102nd in 2019) and the 432nd most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Purefoy ranks 3,547 out of 13,578. Before him are R. G. Armstrong, Maurice Evans, Cha Eun-woo, Ed Wynn, Sasha Alexander, and Michael Peña. After him are Jennie Garth, Susanna Hoffs, Peter Greene, James Shigeta, William Daniels, and Hanna Maron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, James Purefoy ranks 176. Before him are Eduard Kokoity, Sabrina Ferilli, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Mladen Mladenović, Vladimír Weiss, and Nicola Larini. After him are Barry Bonds, David Ellefson, Sergei Loznitsa, Lorenzo Staelens, Ian Ziering, and Elie Saab.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Purefoy ranks 2,898 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Josephine Butler (1828), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), and Maurice Evans (1901). After him are Norman Read (1931), Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593), David Frost (1939), William Whiston (1667), and Nat Lofthouse (1925).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, James Purefoy ranks 432. Before him are Stella McCartney (1971), Jonathan Bailey (1988), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Matthew Macfadyen (1974), Julia McKenzie (1941), and Maurice Evans (1901). After him are Christina Pickles (1935), Barry Morse (1918), Teresa Ann Savoy (1955), Matthew Garber (1956), Shirley Henderson (1965), and Ben Whishaw (1980).

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Television and Movie Roles

Resident Evil
Spence Parks
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Mar 15th 20026.639 / 10
Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
Sep 16th 20096 / 10
John Carter
Kantos Kan
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Mar 7th 20126.322 / 10