Dominic Purcell
Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born February 17, 1970 in Wallasey , Cheshire , England ) is an Australian actor .
Life
Dominic Purcell has a Norwegian father and an Irish mother. In 1972 the family moved from England to Sydney , Australia . Purcell was trained as a landscape architect and later decided to study at the drama schools The Australian Theater for Young People and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts . He made his debut in 1997 on the Australian television series RAW FM . In the television film The President's Daughter: In Deadly Peril (1999) he starred alongside Mariel Hemingway and Monica Keena , in the film Mission: Impossible II (2000) he starred alongside Tom Cruise .
In 2000 Purcell received the green card and was able to travel to the United States . He played the leading role in the television film John Doe and in the later television series of the same name. In Blade: Trinity (2004) he played alongside Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson . From 2005 to 2009 he played the lead role of inmate Lincoln Burrows in the US television series Prison Break . The series ended with a fifth season in 2017.
Purcell has four children with his wife Rebecca (* 1999, 2001 and 2003). The couple lived in Los Angeles until they separated . Purcell was dating AnnaLynne McCord from 2011 to 2014 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1996: Water Rats - Die Hafencops ( Water Rats , TV series)
- 1998: Moby Dick
- 1999: Beastmaster ( BeastMaster , TV series)
- 1999: The President's Daughter : First Daughter
- 2000: Mission: Impossible II
- 2001: Scenes of the Crime
- 2001: Invincible (Invincible)
- 2001: The Lost World ( Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World , TV series, episode 3x02)
- 2002: Equilibrium
- 2002–2003: The John Doe Case! ( John Doe , TV series)
- 2003: Visitors
- 2004: 3-Way
- 2004: Blade: Trinity
- 2004: Dr. House ( House, MD , TV series, episode 1x07)
- 2004–2005: North Shore (TV series)
- 2005: The Gravedancers - rest not in peace (The Gravedancers)
- 2005–2009, 2017: Prison Break (TV series)
- 2007: The scent of horror (Primeval)
- 2009: Balibo (Purcell as producer)
- 2009: Blood Creek
- 2010: Prison Break - The Final Break (TV movie)
- 2011: Escapee - Nothing can stop him
- 2011: Castle (TV series, episode 3x22)
- 2011: Killer Elite
- 2011: Straw Dogs - Who sows violence (Straw Dogs)
- 2011: House of the Rising Sun
- 2012: Common Law (TV series, episode 1x12)
- 2012: Hijacked - Kidnapped (Hijacked)
- 2012: Bad Karma
- 2013: Operation Olympus - White House Taken (Suddenly)
- 2013: Assault on Wall Street
- 2013: Viking Cathedral
- 2013: Breakout - Tommy Baxter
- 2013: Ice Soldiers
- 2014: The King's Swords - The Last Mission (In the Name of the King III)
- 2014: Motel Room 13 (The Bag Man)
- 2014–2016: The Flash (TV series, five episodes)
- 2015: Superhero Fight Club (TV movie)
- 2015: Abandoned (TV movie)
- 2015: Gridlocked - In the line of fire (Gridlocked)
- 2015: The Turn - Lost in the South Pacific
- 2015: isolation
- since 2016: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV series)
- 2017: Supergirl (TV series, episode 3x08)
- 2017: Arrow (TV series, episode 6x08)
Web links
- Dominic Purcell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ VIP.de: Dominic Purcell. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.vip.de/cms/dominic-purcell-private-news-ueber-den-schauspieler-2366850.html
- ↑ http://de.eonline.com/news/606251/annalynne-mccord-and-dominic-purcell-split-after-3-years-of-dating
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Purcell, Dominic |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Purcell, Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt (full name); Dom (nickname); Purcell, Domenic (other name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wallasey , Cheshire , England |