Name: James Brian Mark Purefoy Date of Birth: June 3rd, 1964 Place of Birth: England
WHERE HAVE YOU SEEN HIM BEFORE?
He does look familiar, doesn't he? Chances are you've seen one or two of his movies/TV series without having realized it. Some of his more well-known works include the following:
Sharpe's Sword - Lord Jack Spears A Knight's Tale - Sir Thomas Colville/Edward Resident Evil - Spence Parks Vanity Fair - Rawdon Crawley Rome - Mark Antony
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INTERESTING TIDBITS
♥ At his London home, Purefoy personally constructed a tree house for his young son
♥ At boarding school, he once serenaded the girls at a nearby school with thirteen stanzas of "Greensleeves."
♥ Screen tested for the Bond role in GoldenEye (1995)
♥ The name, Purefoy, is originally Norman French and literally means "good faith" or "my word or bond is in good faith." Some Purefoys went to England during the Norman Conquest and others emigrated to England as French Huguenot expatriates in the fifteenth century.
♥ He was cast as the leading man in V For Vendetta but departed halfway in having had creative differences with the makers of the film.
♥ He's ridiculously good looking and charismatic... oh wait, everyone knew that, right? ;)
A QUOTE FROM THE MAN HIMSELF
"The age of chivalry isn't dead, is it? It doesn't even have to be a man or a woman that you could be chivalrous to. If somebody's in trouble you give them a hand." - James Purefoy