James Purefoy then further impressed critics
and fans as a psychopathic rapist being hunted down by Lynn
Redgrave in the BBC film Calling the Shots; as a man living
in a surreal reality in the nationally televised short film
Blink; as the all-seeing observer/narrator in the miniseries
A Dance to the Music of Time; and, most recently, as a romantic
Scotsman in the miniseries The Mayor of Casterbridge (broadcast
Stateside on A&E).
James Purefoy also enjoyed an earlier collaboration
with Vanity Fair screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who wrote and
produced a BBC adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper in which
Mr. James Purefoy starred.
Mr. James Purefoy is a member of the Royal
Shakespeare Company. He has performed in over two dozen plays,
everything from Macbeth to The Man Who Came to Dinner to Les
enfants du paradis. His screen sojourns have also brought him
success. James Purefoy starred as the Black Prince of Wales
in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale, opposite Heath Ledger.
After filming the period piece with modern touches, James Purefoy
vaulted into future-shock for his role with Milla Jovovich in
Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil. Both films were hits all
over the world. Other films that Mr. James Purefoy has starred
in are Rose Troche's Bedrooms & Hallways, Patricia Rozema's
Mansfield Park, Ben Elton's Maybe Baby (opposite Joely Richardson),
and the upcoming Blessed, a modern-day Rosemary's Baby-style
tale directed by Simon Fellows and co-starring Heather Graham
and the late David Hemmings. James Purefoy is currently filming
his starring role as Mark Antony in HBO's epic historical drama
series Rome (the first three segments of which are being directed
by Michael Apted).
