Dominic Purcell
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Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born February 17, 1970) is a United Kingdom-born Australian actor, most active in the United States. He also holds an Republic of Ireland passport by means of his ancestry. He is best known for his roles as the title character in John Doe (TV series) and as Lincoln Burrows in
Prison Break.
Dominic Purcell biography
Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born February 17, 1970) is a United Kingdom-born Australian actor, most active in the United States. He also holds an Republic of Ireland passport by means of his ancestry. He is best known for his roles as the title character in John Doe (TV series) and as Lincoln Burrows in
Prison Break.
Biography
Early life
Purcell was born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England, the eldest of five children. He moved to Sydney with his family when he was two, where he was raised by his father and Irish mother, Maureen, in the Western Suburbs. Purcell attended Blaxland High School. Purcell's father, who had previously served in the Norwegian Merchant Navy, installed air-conditioning ducts for a living, but later separated from the family.
Career
Although he never contemplated being an actor, and thought that "people in the arts - actors, ballet dancers, musicians, whatever - were weird", he decided to try "that acting thing" on impulse. On October 21, 2007, Purcell and his wife Rebecca Williamson separated.
On December 29, 2007 while driving to Strandhill, Co Sligo on Ireland's Atlantic coast to go surfing, Purcell and his brother Damien were waved down by a woman carrying a child, who was choking to death. They saved the child's life by performing CPR until the paramedics arrived. The sixteen month old baby - who made a full recovery - was choking after an onion ring became lodged in his throat.