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Purefoy was born into a "upper-middle class family" and was a boarder at Sherborne School which he left with only one O-level. So he went to night school and got 11 more, then took his A-levels,[1]. He then studied acting at one of Britain's top drama schools, the Central School of Speech and Drama, while selling, with difficulty, copies of the Socialist Worker in his spare time,[1]. His early professional roles included Romeo in Romeo and Juliet in Leatherhead, Walter in Mary Morgan at the Riverside Studios and Alan Strang in Equus on tour.
He 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.
Elsewhere, he has also appeared as Laertes in Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic (1991) Brian in William Gaminara's Back Up the Hearse and Let them Sniff the Flowers at the Hampstead Theatre (1992), Roland Maule in Noel Coward's Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre (1993), Biff in Death of a Salesman, alongside Ken Stott and Jude Law, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (1994), Tony in The Servant at the Birmingham Rep (1995). He returned to the RSC for Simon Callow's stage adaptation of the film classic, Les enfants du paradis at the Barbican. He also played Hugh de Morville in Paul Corcoran's Four Nights in Knaresborough at the Tricycle Theatre, (1999) and Loveless in Trevor Nunn's production of The Relapse at the National Theatre in 2001.
His appearances in films and television have predominated. He played James McCarthy, a young man accused of murdering his father, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," in Granada's The Memoirs 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. He has played major roles in several television costume dramas, including Sharpe's Sword, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Prince and the Pauper, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Blackbeard: Terror at Sea, Beau Brummell: This Charming Man and Rome.
Filmography
* Angels (1992) - Victor
* Feast of July (1995) - Jedd Wainwright
* Sharpe's Sword (1995) - Captain Jack the Lord Spears
* Jilting Joe (1997) - Joe
* Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) - Brendan
* Mansfield Park (1999) - Tom Bertram
* Women Talking Dirty (1999) - Daniel
* Lighthouse (2000) - Richard Spader
* Maybe Baby (2000) - Carl Phipps
* The Wedding Tackle (2000) - Hal
* Don Quixote (2000) - Sansón Carrasco
* Tomorrow (2001) - Andrew Spender
* A Knight's Tale (2001) - Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince of Wales
* Resident Evil (2002) - Spence Parks
* Photo Finish (2003) - James
* Lena: The Bride of Ice (2003) - Dr. Harper
* George and the Dragon (2004) - George
* Blessed (2004) - Craig Howard
* Vanity Fair (2004) - Rawdon Crawley
* Rome (2005-2007)
* Blackbeard: Terror at Sea (2005)
* Goose on the Loose (2006) - Kenneth Donnelly
* Beau Brummell (2006) - Beau Brummell
In 2007 he guest starred as Dracula in the Doctor Who audio drama Son of the Dragon.
- James Purefoy at the Internet Movie Database
- James Purefoy fansite
- America's Home for the Marvelous and Very Sexy British Actor, James Purefoy
- James Purefoy as Blackbeard
- James Purefoy as Beau Brummell
- Interview with James Purefoy, BBC Somerset, September 2005
- Interview with James Purefoy, BBC Somerset, January 2006
- Interview with James Purefoy, BBC Somerset, February 2007
- Interview in The Guardian, January 6, 2007
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