James Purefoy Net Worth

James Purefoy's Quotes

• In the July 4, 2001 Newswatch, Wild West End column: "There was one woman I was absolutely infatuated with, but she had no interest in me. I was very young at the time and thought the way to prove my love was to write a book for her. It ran for pages and pages and I had it bound in leather to give to her. But it still didn't have the desired effect."
• The age of chivalry isn't dead, is it? It doesn't even have to be a man or a woman that you could be chivalrous to. If somebody's in trouble you give them a hand.
• If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am reasonably happy about it as what I've been typecast as ain't so bad"
• "Ah, nudity. That's quite a recent thing, the nudity. It's come in the early autumn of my career." (Jan. 2006)
• The first job I ever did was Equus on stage, as the boy, and I was 17, and we opened the show with me naked in the spotlight being examined by doctors. That was my entrance to the stage, so anything after that was easy. Also, for some reason, nudity was never shameful, it was never brought up in my household when I was a kid, there was no 'dirty, dirty sex'. It's not like we all ran around naked in some horrid 70s nightmare, it just was never an issue, and because it was never an issue I've never been embarrassed, I guess.

Interesting Facts about James Purefoy

1. At his Somerset home, Purefoy personally constructed a tree house for his young son.
2. At boarding school, he once serenaded the girls at a nearby school with thirteen stanzas of "Greensleeves."
3. In 1997, Purefoy was voted "hunk of the year" by a British television magazine.
4. Screen tested for the Bond role in GoldenEye (1995).
5. The name, Purefoy, is originally Norman French and literally means "good faith" or "my word or bond is in good faith." Some Purefoys went to England during the Norman Conquest and others emigrated to England as French Huguenot expatriates in the fifteenth century.
6. He has a son named Joseph born in 1997 with ex-wife Holly Aird.
7. He was cast as the leading man in V for Vendetta (2005) but departed halfway in having had creative differences with the makers of the film.
8. James' co-star in Rome (2005), Kevin McKidd, also played his love interest in Bedrooms and Hallways (1998).
9. Lived with Fay Ripley for more than a decade.
10. James Purefoy has moved out of his Hammersmith, London home, which he shared with actress Holly Aird, and their son, Joseph. [May 2002]