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All All. Sign In. James Brian Mark Purefoy. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he took a succession of different jobs, including working on a pig farm and as a porter at Yeovil District Hospital, before travelling and working extensively throughout Europe. At eighteen, James returned to college to take his A-Levels, one of which was Drama.

It was there that he realised that this was something he felt inspired by and so applied for and was accepted onto the acting course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Whilst playing the title role in "Henry V" in the first term of his final year at Central, he was seen by a casting director from the RSC and invited to join the company, immediately, in Stratford.

Over the next six years, he divided his time between theatre and television.

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As well as appearing in the BBC's landmark period drama, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , he has always chosen to do a wide variety of parts on television, to avoid being typecast. Over the last few years, he has been busy making feature films, on average at the rate of three a year. He has continued to surprise those who seek to pigeon-hole him in his film career - always choosing to play parts that juxtapose strongly with the one he has just completed.