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James Purefoy
Actor
Male
Born
Jun 3, 1964
Age
48
Hometown
Taunton
Other Names
James Brian Mark ...
James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome.
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Mariana ToscaFling 2006
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Jessica AdamsMarried 2004
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James Purefoy
Age 48
children
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Joseph PurefoySon, Age 16
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Pat Gallagher: Kevin Bacon On Marriage, 'The Following' And His Greatest FearHuffington Post - Apr 22, 2013
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Will Jacob Betray Joe?Huffington Post - Apr 18, 2013
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The Flaw In The PlanHuffington Post - Apr 13, 2013
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The Challenge For 'The Following' Season 2Huffington Post - Apr 08, 2013
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CHILDHOOD
1964
Birth
Born on June 3, 1964.
TWENTIES
1988
24 Years Old
Purefoy subsequently joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1988 and appeared in The Constant Couple, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Man Who Came to Dinner (Gene Saks, Barbican) and King Lear as Edgar.
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THIRTIES
1996
32 Years Old
Purefoy had an eleven-year relationship with actress Fay Ripley, after the two met at Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge, Surrey. Afterwards, Purefoy had a relationship with actress Holly Aird from 1996 to 2002.
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1997
33 Years Old
He played James McCarthy, a young man accused of murdering his father, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," in Granada's The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. One of his notable roles was as Nicholas Jenkins in the eight-part miniseries A Dance to the Music of Time for Channel 4 in 1997.
1999
35 Years Old
He played Edward, the Black Prince in the film A Knight's Tale, Rawdon Crawley in Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon, and Tom Bertram in the 1999 production of Mansfield Park.
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FORTIES
2004
40 Years Old
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Throughout 2004 and 2005 Purefoy's name was rumoured as a possible candidate to replace Brosnan as agent 007 in future James Bond films.
2006
42 Years Old
Originally Purefoy was cast as V in V for Vendetta, but left six weeks into filming. Parts of the film contain (dubbed) scenes of Purefoy. Speculation suggested that his departure was due to an opportunity to play James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale.
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2007
43 Years Old
He played Mark Antony in the HBO/BBC original television series, Rome. At the time there were rumours that at least one nude body in the show had been digitally enhanced. When his Wikipedia entry, which at that time referred to the rumours, was brought up in an interview with Alastair McKay, published in the January 2007 issue of Out magazine, Purefoy said, "I won't say whose it was, but there was a penis in the series that may have been slightly enhanced.
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2009
45 Years Old
He starred as Teddy Rist in the summer television series, The Philanthropist, which aired on NBC beginning on June 2009.
2011
47 Years Old
Between March and June 2011 he starred as Peter in Trevor Nunn's production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, alongside Sheridan Smith and Sienna Miller, as part of the playwright Terence Rattigan's centenary year celebrations.
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