James Purefoy is best known for playing Mark Antony in the award-winning HBO series ROME and Joe Carroll in the acclaimed series The Following opposite Kevin Bacon. He most recently appeared in heavily recurring roles in The Veil (FX) opposite Elisabeth Moss, Land Of Women (AppleTV+), and The Recruit (Netflix). He can next be seen joining the final two seasons of The Witcher for Netflix. Next up, he will join the star studded cast of the feature adaptation of Masters Of The Universe for Amazon, starring opposite Nicholas Galitzine, Jared Leto, Idris Elba, and Alison Brie. Recent TV credits include playing Hap in Hap & Leonard (Sundance TV), Altered Carbon (Netflix), Sex Education (Netflix), El Candidato (Amazon), No Man’s Land (Hulu), Discovery Of Witches (AMC), Pennyworth (Epix), and Marie Antoinette (BBC/Canal+).

Film credits include starring in the first instalment of Resident Evil, playing Rawdon Crawley in Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair opposite Reese Witherspoon, A Knight’s Tale alongside Heath Ledger, Churchill opposite Brian Cox, High-Rise; the feature adaptation of the classic JG Ballard novel, directed by Ben Wheatley, Chris Foggin’s Fisherman’s Friends, Stephen Campanelli’s action thriller, Momentum opposite Olga Kurylenko, Wicked Blood opposite Sean Bean and Abigail Breslin as well as Solomon Kane, Ironclad, and John Carter. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in his final year at the Central School of Speech and Drama and spent six years in lead roles in the UK theatre. He last starred on stage in FlarePath opposite Sienna Miller at the Haymarket Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn. Purefoy hails from Taunton, England.