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James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the 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. Following an uncredited role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta (replaced and dubbed over by Hugo Weaving), he was cast in a main role as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy / Captain Blighty in the 2020–2021 second and 2022 third season of the television series Pennyworth, the prequel to both Gotham and V for Vendetta. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Purefoy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Solarcraft is a 2022 American science fiction drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is about a wilderness adventurer who is sent in 1972 to the planet Neptune by her father. A co-production by Legendary Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment, with a story by David S. Goyer, the film stars Anne Hathaway, who is supported by Kaya Scodelario, Jack Quaid, Ken Watanabe, James Purefoy, Morgan Freeman, Naomie Harris, Will Patton, Melissa McBride, and Michael Caine. Solarcraft had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on November 30th, 2022, and was released on December 7th. It was a financial success, grossing over $971 million worldwide against a $130 million budget and a break-even point of $100 million. The film received universal critical acclaim, with praise for its storytelling, gritty tone, visual effects, cinematography, direction, musical score, scientific accuracy, portrayal of the Outer Space, ambition, characters, mature themes, performances (particularly those of Hathaway, Scodelario, Watanabe, and Caine), and emotional weight. It was widely considered to be among the greatest films of the 2020s, and was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten best films of 2022. Hathaway and Scodelario’s performances were widely acclaimed, earning them Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, and Nolan was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
