English actor

James Purefoy

James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the hit Fox thriller series The Following, Solomon Kane in the film of the same name, and Hap Collins in the Sundance series Hap and Leonard. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the second season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches". In 2018, he starred as Laurens Bancroft in the first season of Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series.

Born

1964

June 3

Died

Living

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1960s

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Key dates

1964 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

350 The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
713 The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
1098 After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.
1140 The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

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The world in 1964

When James arrived

april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 3

Anderson Cooper 1967– American journalist and author Charles Lecocq 1832– French pianist and composer (died 1918) Charles R. Drew 1904–1950 American physician and surgeon (born 1904) Colleen Dewhurst 1924–1991 Canadian-American actress (born 1924) Donald Judd 1928–1994 American painter and sculptor (born 1928) Flinders Petrie 1853–1942 English archaeologist and academic (born 1853) George Fernandes 1930–2019 Indian politician (born 1930) Ignaz Fränzl 1736– German violinist and composer (died 1811) Jill Biden 1951– American educator, First Lady of the United States

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1964

Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964– English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand Andrew Bartlett 1964– Australian social worker and politician Andy Serkis 1964– English actor and director Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Azmin Ali 1964– Malaysian mathematician and politician Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Bridget Fonda 1964– American actress Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress

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