James Purefoy

format_quote You'd be a fool and an unwise man to say never. I haven't as yet had a gay relationship - not since school anyway - but I'd never say never. That would just be foolish. I think the more of a big deal we make out of that stuff, the harder it is for people to act how their heart wants them to act.

stars  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.

stars  At his London home, Purefoy personally constructed a tree house for his young son.

stars  At boarding school, he once serenaded the girls at a nearby school with thirteen stanzas of "Greensleeves."

stars  Screen tested for the Bond role in GoldenEye (1995).

stars  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.