James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome. Purefoy was born in Taunton, Somerset. He was a boarder at Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset which he left with only one O-level. Later he went to night school and got 11 more, then took his A-levels. He worked at Yeovil District Hospital as a porter before studying acting at the British drama school the Central School of Speech and Drama, while trying to sell copies of the Socialist Worker in his spare time. Purefoy's 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. Purefoy subsequently joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988 and appeared in The Constant Couple, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Man Who Came to Dinner and King Lear as Edgar.
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| Birthdate: | June 3, 1964 |
| Birthplace: | Taunton |
| Age: | 47 |
| Height: | 6' 1" |
| Education: | Central School of Speech and Drama, Brooklands College |
| Also known as: | James Brian Mark Purefoy |