Dominic Purcell

Dominic Purcell was born on Feb 17, 1970 in UK. Dominic Purcell's big-screen debut came with Moby Dick - Season 1 directed by Franc Roddam in 1998, strarring Bulkington. Dominic Purcell is known for Prison Break directed by Bobby Roth, Dominic Purcell stars as Lincoln 'Linc' Burrows and Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield. Dominic Purcell has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Dominic Purcell achieved is Australian Film Institute. The upcoming new movie Dominic Purcell plays is Assault on Wall Street which will be released on Oct 12, 2022.

Dominic was born in England, to a Norwegian father and Irish mother. At the age of two, Dominic and his family moved from England to Sydney's Bondi and then moved to the Western Suburbs. After trying his hand at landscape gardening he decided to become an actor whilst watching the war movie Platoon (1986). Due to his working-class background, acting seemed a very unlikely choice of career, so he didn't pursue it until some time later. He studied at The Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) and then later enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing arts where he met his future wife Rebecca and studied with Hugh Jackman. In 1997, Dominic scored a role in the TV series Raw FM (1997) and then landed a part in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), which was filmed in Australia. He became a TV star. In 2000, he won the Green Card lottery and now lives in Los Angeles with his family. He was spotted by a US talent scout and has been working constantly with roles in the movie Equilibrium (2002), the TV show John Doe (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), and in the upcoming thriller Kidnapping (2004) and a new police television drama, Strut.