Dominic Purcell
- Birthday
- Feb 17, 1970
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
Bio: With his barrel chest and oversized frame, British-born actor Dominic Purcell seemed almost tailor-made for a career as a character player. He remained in that sphere temporarily, but traveled a step beyond it in terms of complexity, playing not just one type time and again, but a broad array -- ranging from everyman heroes and monsters to occasional toughs.… More Bio: With his barrel chest and oversized frame, British-born actor Dominic Purcell seemed almost tailor-made for a career as a character player. He remained in that sphere temporarily, but traveled a step beyond it in terms of complexity, playing not just one type time and again, but a broad array -- ranging from everyman heroes and monsters to occasional toughs. Consequently, Purcell shot rather quickly to top billing. After a scant few supporting turns, Purcell's first major starring role arrived with his lead portrayal in the series John Doe (2002), a kind of cross between Coronet Blue and The Bourne Identity about a supremely intelligent fellow with knowledge about everything in the world except for his own identity. Unfortunately, that program only lasted a single season. In 2004, Purcell signed for another lead, this one in Scott Ziehl's post-noir crime thriller 3-Way -- as a rather shady widower who blackmails a couple of would-be kidnappers into cutting him into their plan. Yet that series also folded almost instantaneously. The next year, the actor finally found a lasting role on the hit Fox drama Prison Break, playing Lincoln Burrows, an incarcerated man whose brother gets deliberately thrown into prison to spring him out. Purcell landed his next major cinematic role in the natural horror picture Primeval (2007), about a news team in hot pursuit of a 25-foot crocodile. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Filmography
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Assault On Wall Street (2013)
- Jim
- 14%
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Officer Down (2013)
- Royce Walker
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Paradise Lost (2013)
- Jerahmeel/Moloch
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Hijacked (2012)
- Actor
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Killer Elite (2011)
- Davies
- 25%
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Dominic Purcell Videos
Killer Elite
2 minutes 4 seconds
Straw Dogs
3 minutes 32 seconds
Blade: Trinity
2 minutes 20 seconds
Prison Break: The Final Break
1 minutes 50 seconds
Hijacked
2 minutes 39 seconds
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